Varieties of Literature: Being, Principally, Selections from the Portfolio of the Late John Brady, Esq. ...G. B. Whittaker, 1826 - 295 Seiten |
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Seite 108 - The Countess Godiva, bearing an extraordinary affection to this place, often and earnestly besought her husband that, for the love of God and the Blessed Virgin, he would free it from that grievous servitude whereunto it was subject; but he, rebuking her for importuning him in a...
Seite 121 - In crowds of brokers over-awe the stocks ; Suspend the worldly business of the day, And, to enrich thy mind, attend my lay. O thou, whose penetrative wisdom found The South Sea rocks and shelves, where thousands drown'd ! When credit sunk, and commerce gasping lay, Thou stood'st ; no bill was sent unpaid away.
Seite 29 - Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, was first a Papist, then a Protestant, then a Papist, then a Protestant again. He had seen some martyrs burnt (two miles off) at Windsor, and found this fire too hot for his tender temper. This vicar being taxed by one for being a turncoat and an inconstant changeling, —
Seite 120 - ... of the parliamentary leaders. The merchants and tradesmen, who before trusted their cash to their servants and apprentices, found that no longer safe ; neither did they dare to leave it in the mint at the Tower, by reason of the distresses of Majesty itself, which before was a place of public deposit. In the year 1645, they began to place it in the hands of goldsmiths, when they first began publicly to exercise both professions.
Seite 110 - Hakluyt, he received information "that negroes were very good merchandise in Hispaniola, and that store of negroes might easily be had on the coast of Guiney, he resolved to make trial thereof...
Seite 31 - Frontless and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets.
Seite 140 - and will boldly enter the lists with my accusers; but a layman, a sinner like myself, is not endowed with the gift of miracles. Your piety, most holy prelate, may deserve the interposition of Heaven, and from your hands I will receive the fiery globe, the pledge of my innocence.
Seite 125 - Maskers came in, with sixe gentlemen disguised in silke bearyng staffe torches, and desired the ladies to daunce, some were content, and some that knewe the fashion of it refused, because it was not a thyng commonly seen.
Seite 138 - I'm here interred, according to my thinking, Is owing to my good living and hard drinking. If, therefore, good Christians, you wish to live long, Don't drink too much wine, brandy, gin, or any thing strong.
Seite 31 - Both these might be performed by deputy; but the principal was to answer for the success of the trial, the deputy only venturing some corporal pain for hire, or perhaps for friendship.