The Parochial History of Cornwall: Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin; with Additions and Various Appendices, Volumen3

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J. B. Nichols and son, 1838

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Página 418 - Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore; As thine, Andromache! Thy griefs I dread: I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led! In Argive looms our battles to design, And woes, of which so large a part was thine!
Página 70 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath GOD said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden...
Página 165 - Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, Quique pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti, Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo ; Omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.
Página 156 - Lord Charles, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c.
Página 185 - They say the parson hath a gown, But I saw ne'er a cloak. Whereby you may consider well, That plain simplicity doth dwell At Lydford, without bravery : And in the town, both young and grave Do love the naked truth to have ; No cloak to hide their knavery.
Página 330 - Eight inches above the centre of the altar is a recess in the wall, where probably stood a crucifix, and on the north side of the altar is a small doorway, through which the priest may have entered.
Página 178 - Constantine was a cottage which a family of the name of Edwards held for generations under the proprietors of Harlyn by the annual render of a pie made of limpets, raisins, and various herbs, on the eve of the festival. This pie, as I have heard from my father, and from more ancient members of the family, and from old servants, was excellent. The Edwardses had pursued for centuries the occupation of shepherds on Harlyn and Constantino commons.
Página 310 - Trevelyan family are too old, too honourable, and now too much distinguished by science, for them to covet any addition of honour through the medium of fabulous history. "It is recorded in the Saxon Chronicle that, in the year 1099, there was so very high a tide, and the damage so great in consequence, that men remembered not the like to have ever happened before, and the same day was the first of the new moon. Stow, who wrote his History of England about the year 1580, notices the great tide of...
Página 52 - Observations on the antiquities., historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall, consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants...
Página 258 - Earth, take thine Earth, my Sin let Satan havet, The World my goods, my Soul my God who gavet ; For from these four, Earth, Satan, World, and God, My flesh, my sin, my goods, my soul, I had.

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