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Página 207 - area in the front. The business of the Trinity-house is transacted here, but the parent house is at Deptford, the corporation being named, The Master, Wardens, and Assistants, of the Guild, or Fraternity, of the most glorious and undivided Trinity, and of St. Clement, in the parish of Deptford Stroud, in the county of Kent. The
Página 243 - BRITAIN," for the purpose of facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of philosophical lectures and experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life. The government of
Página 271 - wages.'" The ensuing verse is the subject of the next picture, viz. " And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son, and she called his name
Página 77 - ale and half of twopenny; or half of beer and half of twopenny. In course of time it also became the practice to call for a pint or tankard of three threads, meaning a third of ale, beer, and twopenny ; and
Página 42 - night, and in a quarter of the town so close built with wooden pitched houses, spread itself so far before day, and with such distraction to the inhabitants and neighbours, that care was not taken for the timely preventing the further diffusion of it, by pulling down houses," as ought to have been ; so that this lamentable fire, in a short
Página 42 - became too big to be mastered by any engines, or working near it. It fell out most unhappily too that a Violent easterly wind fomented it, and kept it burning all that day and the night following, spreading itself up to
Página 168 - is a very great curiosity. It is 140 yards in circumference. A stone seat runs round the gallery along the foot of the wall. On the side directly opposite the door by which the visitor enters, several yards of the seat are covered •with matting, on which the visitor being
Página 49 - consists of three principal divisions; the city of London, the city of Westminster, and the borough of Southwark, with their respective suburbs. The two former divisions are situated on the northern side of the Thames, in the county of Middlesex, great part of them lying on
Página 43 - but all in vain ; the fire seizing upon the timber and rubbish, and so continuing itself, even through those spaces, and raging in a bright flame all Monday and Tuesday, notwithstanding his majesty's own, and his royal
Página 282 - to the south as far as Lambeth ; and by means of the Greenwich dispensary, to Newington and Peckham, including a space of nearly fifty square miles, a system of medical relief is extended to the poor, unknown to any other part of the globe. About 50,000 poor persons are thus annually supplied with medicine and advice gratis;

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