Vallis Eboracensis: Comprising the History and Antiquities of Easingwold and Its NeighbourhoodSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1852 - 456 pages |
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... is most probably of Phoeni- cian or Celtic origin . A large quantity of these , with spear heads and broken pieces of copper - swords were found in the Leland also mentions year 1800 , in the parish of 24 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS .
... is most probably of Phoeni- cian or Celtic origin . A large quantity of these , with spear heads and broken pieces of copper - swords were found in the Leland also mentions year 1800 , in the parish of 24 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS .
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... parish of St. Hilary . spear - heads , and swords of copper , and battle axes , ( probably celts ) having been found in the same parish . Celts have been found in various parts of Yorkshire , and a large quan- tity were dug up in the ...
... parish of St. Hilary . spear - heads , and swords of copper , and battle axes , ( probably celts ) having been found in the same parish . Celts have been found in various parts of Yorkshire , and a large quan- tity were dug up in the ...
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... parish purposes , the procession consisted of the bishop or cler- gyman , with the churchwardens and parishioners accompanied by a banner . The custom is kept up in some parishes at the present day . A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine ...
... parish purposes , the procession consisted of the bishop or cler- gyman , with the churchwardens and parishioners accompanied by a banner . The custom is kept up in some parishes at the present day . A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine ...
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... parishes , and though the occurrence of references to the " field of Paulinus " and the 1 Piepoudre , a court for the speedy adjudication of small causes , the name of which , derived from the Norman French , is said to intimate , that ...
... parishes , and though the occurrence of references to the " field of Paulinus " and the 1 Piepoudre , a court for the speedy adjudication of small causes , the name of which , derived from the Norman French , is said to intimate , that ...
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... parish of Easingwold , and in the line of the Roman Road from York to Tees Mouth ) , and furnish some further particulars as to early proprietors in the neigh- bourhood . It appears from Camden's Britannia , p . 693 , that it was ...
... parish of Easingwold , and in the line of the Roman Road from York to Tees Mouth ) , and furnish some further particulars as to early proprietors in the neigh- bourhood . It appears from Camden's Britannia , p . 693 , that it was ...
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Page 359 - Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves, And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves.
Page 28 - Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Page 154 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 346 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 315 - THE winds are high on Helle's wave, As on that night of stormy water When Love, who sent, forgot to save The young, the beautiful, the brave, The lonely hope of Sestos
Page 21 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Page 258 - O yet a nobler task awaits thy hand (For what can war, but endless war still breed ?) Till truth and right from violence be freed, And public faith cleared from the shameful brand Of public fraud. In vain doth valour bleed, While avarice and rapine share the land.
Page 95 - And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up .serpents; and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they shall recover.
Page 284 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Page 20 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.