A Book about London: Its Memorable Places, Its Men and Women, and Its Historical and Literary AssociationsHenry & Company, 1890 - 350 من الصفحات |
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... an unfamiliar sign to the people of London . The insanitary conditions of the crowded city , huddled between the Thames and the northern heights , and unprovided with any system of drainage , made it THE GREAT PLAGUE.
... an unfamiliar sign to the people of London . The insanitary conditions of the crowded city , huddled between the Thames and the northern heights , and unprovided with any system of drainage , made it THE GREAT PLAGUE.
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... Thames to the magnificent pile of Westminster's ancient Abbey , which holds so much honoured dust ; we watch the progress of barge and steamer and wherry up and down the stream ; and we linger at the numerous bridges that connect the ...
... Thames to the magnificent pile of Westminster's ancient Abbey , which holds so much honoured dust ; we watch the progress of barge and steamer and wherry up and down the stream ; and we linger at the numerous bridges that connect the ...
الصفحة 29
... Thames Street , and Billingsgate . By Tuesday , the 4th , they had reached the end of Fetter Lane in Holborn , and the entrance of Smithfield ; but by that time the wind had somewhat abated , and active measures were taken to stay the ...
... Thames Street , and Billingsgate . By Tuesday , the 4th , they had reached the end of Fetter Lane in Holborn , and the entrance of Smithfield ; but by that time the wind had somewhat abated , and active measures were taken to stay the ...
الصفحة 31
... Thames Street are stored with oil and brandy , and pitch and tar , we do not , on reflection , wonder at the immense impetus the fire has obtained . As night comes on , we land at a little alehouse on Bankside , and there sit at the ...
... Thames Street are stored with oil and brandy , and pitch and tar , we do not , on reflection , wonder at the immense impetus the fire has obtained . As night comes on , we land at a little alehouse on Bankside , and there sit at the ...
الصفحة 32
... Thames , and all along Cornhill ( for it kindled back against the wind as well as forward ) , Tower Street , Fenchurch Street , Gracious [ Gracechurch ] Street , and so along to Baynard's Castle , and was now taking hold of St. Paul's ...
... Thames , and all along Cornhill ( for it kindled back against the wind as well as forward ) , Tower Street , Fenchurch Street , Gracious [ Gracechurch ] Street , and so along to Baynard's Castle , and was now taking hold of St. Paul's ...
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الصفحة 77 - ... was the Duke of York, and the company squeezed themselves into one another's pockets to make room for us. The house, which is borrowed, and to which the ghost has adjourned, is wretchedly small and miserable. When we opened the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light, but one...
الصفحة 212 - I pray you all, good Christian people, to bear me witness that I die a true Christian woman, and that I do look to be saved by no other mean, but only by the mercy of God, in the blood of his only Son Jesus Christ...
الصفحة 34 - Smithfield, where I had many wounded and sick men, made me the more diligent to promote it, nor was my care for the Savoy less. It now pleased God...
الصفحة 13 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
الصفحة 235 - I dare look death in the face, and I hope the people too. Have you a care that I do not escape, and I care not how I die, whether by the hand of the executioner or the madness and fury of the people. If that may give them contentment it is all one to me.
الصفحة 273 - ... three buttered muffins for breakfast, before shooting himself, knowing that he should not be troubled with indigestion : he had two charged pistols ; one was found lying charged upon the table by him, after he had shot himself with the other.
الصفحة 113 - Then we all ran, when the Court gates were set open, and no man did hinder us from coming in. There we...
الصفحة 330 - In order to keep up the credit of our house, I have forged powers of attorney for the above sums and parties, and sold out to the amount here stated, and without the knowledge of my partners. I kept up the payment of the dividends, but made no entries of such payments in our books.
الصفحة 145 - Wryneck swore she should be married, or if she would not, he would still have his fee, and register the marriage from that night. The lady, finding she could not escape without money or a pledge, told them she liked the gentleman so well she would certainly meet him to-morrow night, and gave them a ring as a pledge, which, says she...
الصفحة 33 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above ten thousand houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches...