| Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1829 - 456 pages
...wealth, its extensive trade and commerce, its grandeur and magnificence. It is happy in the wholesomeness of its climate, in the profession of the Christian...sports and pastimes there used, and the number of the illustrious persons that inhabit it. Of these particulars we shall exhibit a more distinct representation.... | |
| John Stow - London (England) - 1842 - 252 pages
...magnificence. It is happy in the salubrity of its climate, in the profession of the Christian religion, in the strength of its fortresses, the nature of its situation, the honour of its citizens, and the chastity of its matrons ; in its sports too it is most pleasant, and in the production of illustrious... | |
| John Stow - London (England) - 1842 - 254 pages
...magnificence. It is happy in the salubrity of its climate, in the profession of the Christian religion, in the strength of its fortresses, the nature of its situation, the honour of its citizens, and the chastity of its matrons ; in its sports too it is most pleasant, and in the production of illustrious... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...magnificence. It is happy in the salubrity of its climate, in the profession of the Christian religion, in the strength of its fortresses, the nature of its situation, the honour of its citizens, and the chastity of its matrons ; in its sports too it is most pleasant, and in the production of illustrious... | |
| 1877 - 652 pages
...wealth, its extensive trade and commerce, its grandeur and magnificence. Happy in the wholesomeness of its climate, in the profession of the Christian...honour of its citizens, the chastity of its matrons. . . . There " Men's minds are softened by a clement shy." On the east stands the Palatine Tower, a... | |
| William John Loftie - London - 1883 - 524 pages
...London, according to him, was accounted in the reign of Henry II. to be happy in the wholesomeness of its climate, in the profession of the Christian...of its citizens, the chastity of its matrons, and the number of illustrious persons that inhabit it. It is evident from this exordium that Fitzstephen... | |
| Robert Anchor Thompson - Christian saints - 1889 - 340 pages
...its healthy air, its Christian religion, the strength of its fortifications, the natural advantages of its situation, the honour of its citizens, the chastity of its matrons, delightful for its games, fertile in noble men." In his exposition of these several heads, he informs... | |
| Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Architecture - 1904 - 452 pages
...London It is happy in the salubrity of its climate, in the profession of the Christian religion, in the strength of its fortresses, the nature of its situation, the honour of its citizens, and the chastity of its matrons ; in its sports, too, it is most pleasant, and in the production of... | |
| John Bennion Booth - Horse racing - 1925 - 466 pages
...ancient historian, Fitzstephen, who extolled this Metropolis for the wholesomeness of its climate, the nature of its situation, the honour of its citizens, the chastity of its matrons, and the number of illustrious persons who lived in it," and he was wont to declare that if ever a Piccadilly... | |
| Lore Holzhausen Liebenam (Frau) - English literature - 1928 - 152 pages
...wealth, its extensive trade and commerce, its grandeur and magnificence. It is happy in the wholesomest climate, in the profession of the Christian religion,...even in the Sports and pastimes there used, and the numbei of illustrious persons that inhabit it." Als die weltgeschichtlichen Ereignisse des 15. und... | |
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