Rambles Round Eton and HarrowChatto and Windus, 1882 - 290 páginas |
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... story ; but Stanley relates a circumstance that eclipses this , and the writer was once a witness to an almost similar scene , where swans were carefully kept on a lake into which a little brook emptied itself . A swan had lost some ...
... story ; but Stanley relates a circumstance that eclipses this , and the writer was once a witness to an almost similar scene , where swans were carefully kept on a lake into which a little brook emptied itself . A swan had lost some ...
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... story ; still , we have the ingenuous confession of Mr. Pepys in his own experiences ; and as for burying large sums , there is , indeed , a tradition , which appears in some Chester E local histories , of a large sum having been ...
... story ; still , we have the ingenuous confession of Mr. Pepys in his own experiences ; and as for burying large sums , there is , indeed , a tradition , which appears in some Chester E local histories , of a large sum having been ...
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... story is that , from what I have heard re- cently , it does not seem to be legendary . The part of England we have been considering , and the country that lies in the immediate vicinity , is among the most charming in the whole kingdom ...
... story is that , from what I have heard re- cently , it does not seem to be legendary . The part of England we have been considering , and the country that lies in the immediate vicinity , is among the most charming in the whole kingdom ...
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... story of the garter , which led to the foundation of the Order of the Garter . Bisham also were interred the remains of Neville , the great king - maker , whose character has been powerfully sketched by Green : " Out of the wreck of a ...
... story of the garter , which led to the foundation of the Order of the Garter . Bisham also were interred the remains of Neville , the great king - maker , whose character has been powerfully sketched by Green : " Out of the wreck of a ...
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... Story . dim windows that excluded the light were filled with the arms of the family of the Hastings and its alliances , those of Sir Edward Coke , and many of his contem- poraries in the law . " We learn from Lysons that Coke ...
... Story . dim windows that excluded the light were filled with the arms of the family of the Hastings and its alliances , those of Sir Edward Coke , and many of his contem- poraries in the law . " We learn from Lysons that Coke ...
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