 | 1864 - 556 pages
...same, without travelling a hundred miles, outside a coach, all the cold night. On the pillar I read — "The mayor and corporation of Devizes avail themselves...this market-place in the year 1753 ; hoping that such a record may serve as a salutary warning against the danger of impiously invoking the Divine vengeance,... | |
 | 1833 - 632 pages
...by this view, are more than ordinarily important. The whole of the inscription is as follows: — " The Mayor and Corporation of Devizes avail themselves...this marketplace, in the year 1753; hoping that such a record may serve as a salutary warning against the danger of impiously invoking the divine vengeance,... | |
 | 1858 - 414 pages
...INSCRIPTION AT DEVIZES. The following inscription is to be seen in the market -place at Devizes : — "The mayor and corporation of Devizes avail themselves...this market-place, in the year 1753, hoping that such a record may serve as a salutary warning against the danger of impiously invoking the Divine vengeance,... | |
 | William Walters (Baptist Minister.) - 1861 - 424 pages
...following inscription is to ba seen in the market-place at Devizes, — " The mayor and corporafion of Devizes avail themselves of the stability of this...building to transmit to future times the record of an awlul event which occurred in this market-place in the year 1753, hoping that such a record may serve... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 360 pages
...instance of this heinous sin is recorded upon the Marketcross at Devizes, in Wiltshire, in these words : "The Mayor and Corporation of Devizes avail themselves...stability of this building, to transmit to future time, the record of an awful event, which occurred in this market-place, in the year 1753 : hoping... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 320 pages
...this heinous sin is recorded upon the Marketcross at Devizes, in Wiltshire, in these words : — " The Mayor and Corporation of Devizes avail themselves...stability of this building, to transmit to future time, the record of an awful event, which occurred in this market-place in the year 1753; hoping that... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 338 pages
...of his " Divine Songs," telling us how Ananias was struck dead, Caught with a lie upon his tongue. " The Mayor and Corporation of Devizes avail themselves...stability of this building, to transmit to future time, the record of an awful event, which occurred in this market-place in the year 1753; hoping that... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 328 pages
...this heinous sin is recorded upon the Marketcross at Devizes, in Wiltshire, in these words : — u The Mayor and Corporation of Devizes avail themselves...stability of this building, to transmit to future time, the record of an awful event, which occurred in this market-place in the year 1753; hoping that... | |
 | Anecdote book - 1866 - 238 pages
...LESSON. THE following inscription is to be seen in the market-place at Devizes in Wiltshire : — " The mayor and corporation of Devizes avail themselves...this market-place in the year 1753, hoping that such a record may serve as a salutary warning against the danger of impiously invoking the divine vengeance,... | |
 | Robert Huston - 1866 - 192 pages
...God " — reminds me of the following inscription, to be seen in the market-place at Devizes : — " The Mayor and Corporation of Devizes avail themselves...this marketplace in the year 1753 ; hoping that such a record may serve as a salutary warning against the danger of impiously invoking the Divine vengeance,... | |
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The mayor and corporation of Devizes avail themselves of the stability of this building to transmit to future times the record of an awful event, which occurred in this... 
