The History and Antiquities of Morley, in the West Riding of the County of YorkLongmans, Green, & Company, 1876 - 272 pages |
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... Church Saltaire Club and Institute Saltaire Elementary Schools ... Crow Nest , the Seat of Sir Titus Salt , Bart ... Church • Arms of Nostel Priory -:0:-
... Church Saltaire Club and Institute Saltaire Elementary Schools ... Crow Nest , the Seat of Sir Titus Salt , Bart ... Church • Arms of Nostel Priory -:0:-
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... Church Arms of Savile ... Corporal Crowther's House , Banks ' Hill Old Chapel Parsonage ' Arms of Sharp ... ... Portrait of Rev. Joseph Fox New School , Troy Hill ... ✓ Ancient Tombstones " · Ancient Tombstones ' St. Peter's Church ...
... Church Arms of Savile ... Corporal Crowther's House , Banks ' Hill Old Chapel Parsonage ' Arms of Sharp ... ... Portrait of Rev. Joseph Fox New School , Troy Hill ... ✓ Ancient Tombstones " · Ancient Tombstones ' St. Peter's Church ...
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... Church of St. Mary's was said to be in the wood , all evidence points to the probability that this wood chiefly lay to the North and North East of the Church and the village , and extended as far as Middleton beck on the Leeds and ...
... Church of St. Mary's was said to be in the wood , all evidence points to the probability that this wood chiefly lay to the North and North East of the Church and the village , and extended as far as Middleton beck on the Leeds and ...
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... church as that of St. Mary's , which would surely have never been founded in a place where there was not an adequate and imposing number of parishioners . We have before affirmed our conviction that the annihilation of this consequence ...
... church as that of St. Mary's , which would surely have never been founded in a place where there was not an adequate and imposing number of parishioners . We have before affirmed our conviction that the annihilation of this consequence ...
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... Church in 1496 , and of whom Scatcherd says , " beyond this Ralph I can find no further mention of this family , except that William Beeston , Esq . , with Sir John Mirfield and Christopher Ward , were seized of lands , amounting to a ...
... Church in 1496 , and of whom Scatcherd says , " beyond this Ralph I can find no further mention of this family , except that William Beeston , Esq . , with Sir John Mirfield and Christopher Ward , were seized of lands , amounting to a ...
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Page 133 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 88 - Will make it but burn up the higher; If so, my friend, pray let her take A second turn into the lake, And, rather than your patience lose, Thrice and again repeat the dose. No brawling wives, no furious wenches, No fire so hot, but water quenches.
Page 123 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 231 - And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats
Page 231 - Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the engraver. And of the cunning workman and of the embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in scarlet and in fine linen and of the weaver, even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work.
Page 120 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 93 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 10 - Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages, who have only what is necessary, converse in figures. As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry; or all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbols.
Page 145 - Whose life, beyond preceptive wisdom, taught The great in conduct, and the pure in thought ; These still exist, by Thee to Fame consigned, Still speak and act, the models of mankind.
Page 199 - A savage horde among the civilised, A servile band among the lordly free...