Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 36

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Chetham Society., 1855 - Cheshire (England)
 

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Page 143 - Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round : And higher than that wall a circling row...
Page 178 - In the City died this week 7,496, and of them 6,102 of the plague. But it is feared that the true number of the dead this week is near 10,000; partly from the poor that cannot be taken notice of, through the greatness of the number, and partly from the Quakers and others that will not have any bell ring for them.
Page 216 - A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and divers of the Strange Cures by him lately Performed; written by himself in a Letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., etc., etc.
Page 211 - That the goods laid in the Church-yard fired through the windows those in St. Fayth's church; and those coming to the warehouses...
Page 55 - ... he desired to speak with him. While, at the last, he came where the king was sitting in the desk at his prayers ; but when he saw the king, he made him little reverence or salutation, but leaned down...
Page 141 - Epocha, he had demonstrated the manifestation of the Messiah to have fallen out at the end of the sixty-ninth week, and his passion in the midst of the last, in the most...
Page 61 - Enthymeme (said he) is a lawful and real syllogismj but dogs can make them ; he instanced in an hound who had the major proposition in his mind, namely, ' the hare is gone either this or that way ;* smells out the minor with his nose, namely, ' she is not gone that way,' and follows the conclusion, ' Ergo, this way with open mouth.
Page 231 - All that regards design, form, .fable (which is the soul of poetry), all that concerns exactness or consent of parts (which is the body), will probably be wanting; only pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse (which are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry), may be found in these verses.
Page 11 - I pray you, Sir, come in ;' he replied, ' Call me not Sir, for I am no Sir ; but yet come in I must, for I cannot pass by the door before I come in.
Page 229 - ... Dr. Worthington is not provided for where he is' etc. Same to same 14 May 1667 (ibid. 228-9): 'Bishop Wren was interred last Saturday, in the vault by himself prepared in 30 his new chapel in Pembroke hall. Dr. Pearson made a speech. Regents and non-regents had sugar-boxes. I have, since Michaelmas last, married away three of my four servants, and the fourth is upon the point of being married. This trade goes on though all others at a stand.

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