Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S.: To which is Subjoined the Private Correspondence Between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and Between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon and Sir Richard Browne, Volume 1G. Bell, 1889 - Great Britain |
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... stands . 1635. But my dear mother being now dangerously sick , I was , on the 3rd of September following , sent for to Wotton . Whom I found so far spent , that , all human assistance failing , she in a most heavenly manner departed ...
... stands . 1635. But my dear mother being now dangerously sick , I was , on the 3rd of September following , sent for to Wotton . Whom I found so far spent , that , all human assistance failing , she in a most heavenly manner departed ...
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... stands in the earlier editions . These and other dis- crepancies are explained in the preface to the present edition ; but it may be worth while , where the change does not simply consist , as for the most part is the case , in a more ...
... stands in the earlier editions . These and other dis- crepancies are explained in the preface to the present edition ; but it may be worth while , where the change does not simply consist , as for the most part is the case , in a more ...
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... stands thus : " The Keiser's Graft , or Emperor's Street , appears a city in a wood through the goodly ranges of the stately lime - trees planted before each man's door , and at the margin of that goodly aquæ - duct , or river , so ...
... stands thus : " The Keiser's Graft , or Emperor's Street , appears a city in a wood through the goodly ranges of the stately lime - trees planted before each man's door , and at the margin of that goodly aquæ - duct , or river , so ...
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... stands in the market- place , upon a high pillar , with his sword drawn , to which ( as I was told ) the magistrates and burghers were wont to repair upon a certain day every year with ropes about their necks , in token of submission ...
... stands in the market- place , upon a high pillar , with his sword drawn , to which ( as I was told ) the magistrates and burghers were wont to repair upon a certain day every year with ropes about their necks , in token of submission ...
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... stands on a notable eminence . Under the town runs the river , which is yet but an inconsiderable brook . Henry VIII . , in the siege of this place is said to have used those great leathern guns which I have since beheld in the Tower of ...
... stands on a notable eminence . Under the town runs the river , which is yet but an inconsiderable brook . Henry VIII . , in the siege of this place is said to have used those great leathern guns which I have since beheld in the Tower of ...
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