The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresbrough: With Harrogate, and It's Medicinal Springs : Including an Account of the Most Remarkable Places in the Neighbourhood

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Published for W. Langdale, 1821 - 423 頁
 

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第 45 頁 - Shook by the slow, but sure destroyer— Time, " Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base : " And flinty pyramids, and walls of brass " Descend : The Babylonian spires arc sunk ; " Ach-aia, Rome, and Egypt moulder down.— *' Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones,
第 237 頁 - We never tread upon them, but we set , Our feet upon some reverend history, ; And, questionless, here, in the open court, Which now lies naked, to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie interred,
第 45 頁 - empires rush by their own weight. * This huge rotundity we tread grows old ; " And, all those worlds that roll around the sun: " The sun himself shall die; and ancient night ** Again involve the desolate abyss.
第 246 頁 - where a monument was erected, to his memory, in 1743; and, an epitaph composed, by doctor Thomas Chapman, master of Magdalen College, Cambridge: BLUSH NOT, MARBLE, TO RESCUE FROM OBLIVION, THE MEMORY OF HENRY JENKINS; A PERSON, OBSCURE IN BIRTH, BUT, OF A LIFE TRULY MEMORABLE; FOR,
第 105 頁 - each, its form, and situation. The plans which he designs, and the estimates which he makes, are done by a method peculiar to himself; and, which he cannot well convey the meaning of to others. This extraordinary man is now (1808) living, and in the 03d year of his age. STAGE II. Forest of
第 381 頁 - it was usual, with much " labor, to place one vast stone upon another, for a " religious memorial. The stones thus placed, they " oftentimes poized so equally, that they were affected *' with the least external force ; nay, a breath of wind " would sometimes make them vibrate."
第 246 頁 - WAS ENRICHED WITH THE GOODS OF NATURE, IF NOT OF FORTUNE'; AND HAPPY, IN THE DURATION, IF NOT THE VARIETY, OF HIS ENJOYMENTS; AND, THOUGH THE PARTIAL WORLD DESPISED AND DISREGARDED HIS LOW AND HUMBLE STATE, THE
第 343 頁 - and no mitigation, whatsoever, allowed. This message being delivered, by the earl, with too little caution, the populace rose; and, supposing him to be the promoter of their calamity, broke into the house, at Topcliffe, and slew the earl, with several of his attendants.
第 84 頁 - at Rome, travelled to Soissons, in France, where they exercised the trade of shoemakers; but the governor, discovering them to be Christians, caused them to be beheaded, about the year 303; from which time, the craft made choice of them for their tutelar saints. The feast is observed here regularly, on the
第 15 頁 - sports and amusements; and, their greatest ambition was to make a figure in his train : his favor was their greatest honor; his displeasure exposed them to contempt and ignominy; and they felt, every moment, the necessity of his protection. Self-preservation obliging

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