Camden's Britannia epitomized and continued, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1842 |
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Página 130 - By Wolsey's gift I measure time for all ; To mirth, to grief, to church, I serve to call.
Página 87 - ... wild unfolded itself: a valley, bounded by large naked rocks, or rather fragments of rocks, piled one upon another. The heights on each side are of a mountainous magnitude, but composed, to all appearance, of loose, unequal masses, which form here and there rude natural columns, and are fantastically arranged along the summits, so as to resemble extensive ruins impending over the pass.
Página 90 - I will be the means of making more scholars than any scholar in the kingdom.
Página 235 - Abbot had an income of £40,000 per annum, had the title of Lord, and sat among the Barons in Parliament.
Página 125 - Gumming, physician and antiquary, 1788. He was -placed in the churchyard, rather than in the church, at his own desire, " lest he who studied whilst living to promote the health of his fellow-citizens should prove detrimental to it when dead.
Página 237 - There is an anecdote of him, that soon after his preferment to this living, he was put into the stocks by Sir Amias Pawlet, a neighbouring justice of the peace, for getting drunk, and making a riot at a fair: a kind of discipline which Wolsey did not forget when he arrived at the high station of Lord Chancellor of England ; for, summoning his corrector up to London, he severely reprimanded him, and enjoined him six years close confinement in the Temple.
Página 91 - Collections towards a Description of the County of Devon, by Sir William Pole, of Colcombe and Shute, Knt., who died AD 1635, was published by his descendant, Sir John William de la Pole.