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Pàgina 12 - Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, " Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen?
Pàgina 25 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Pàgina 96 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this Protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the Popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our LORD 1666, in order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the Protestant Religion, and old English Liberty, and introducing Popery and Slavery.
Pàgina 172 - Forasmuch as the science and cunning of physic and surgery (to the perfect knowledge whereof be requisite both great learning and ripe experience) is daily within this realm exercised by a great multitude of ignorant persons, of whom the greater part have no manner of insight in the same nor in any other kind of learning...
Pàgina 123 - If I had known the temper of the English some years past as well as I do now, I had never been obliged to leave this house.
Pàgina 172 - Forasmuch as the science and cunning of Physick and Surgery (to the perfect knowledge of which be requisite both great learning and ripe experience) is daily within this realm exercised by a great multitude of ignorant persons, of whom...
Pàgina 23 - Beneath lies Christopher Wren, the architect of this church and city, who lived more than ninety years, not for himself alone, but for the public. Reader, do you seek his monument ? Look around !" The Dome is supported by eight immense piers, each of them forty feet at the base.
Pàgina 64 - There was so great a concourse of people with their children to be touched for the Evil, that six or seven were crushed to death by pressing at the chirurgeon's door for tickets.
Pàgina 172 - ... it was ordered that no one should practise as surgeon or physician in the city of London, or within seven miles of it, until he had been first examined, approved, and admitted by the Bishop of London or the Dean of St. Paul's, who were to call in to assist them in the examination " four doctors of physic, and of surgery other expert persons in that faculty.
Pàgina 42 - That if the City would give him a piece of ground in a commodious spot, he would erect an Exchange at his own expense, with large and covered walks, wherein the Merchants and Traders might daily assemble, and transact business at all seasons, without interruption from the weather, or impediments of any kind/ This offer was accepted ; and in 1566, various buildings, houses, tenements, &c.