The Cheshire Sheaf ...: Being Local Gleanings, Historical and Antiquarian, Relating to Cheshire, Chester and North Wales, from Many Scattered Fields ..., Volume 1

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"Chester Courant" Office, 1880

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Página 85 - With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crabtree and old iron rang, While none that saw them could divine To which side conquest would incline ; Until Magnano, who did envy...
Página 143 - I presume you very well know, or have beard, of my condition and disposition, and that I neither give nor take quarter ; I am now with my firelocks, who never yet neglected opportunity to correct rebels ; ready to use you as I have done the Irish, but loth I am to spill my countrymen's blood ; wherefore, by these I advise you to your fealty and obedience to his Majesty, and...
Página 331 - Grosvenors were declared duly elected. Upon the death of George the 3rd, in 1820, there was another contest with a like result — Sir John being beaten by General Grosvenor, by a small majority. In 1825 he died at the early age of 59. His honoured remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of people ; and it is not too much to say of him, that never was man gathered to his fathers, who left behind him a name more to be revered than did this honourable and greatly beloved PATRIOT.
Página 271 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 209 - Then follows, an epistle (as at first a Gospel) with the Liturgy, prayers for the sick, with some alteration; lastly, the blessing; and...
Página 306 - My sledge and hammer lie declin'd, My bellows too have lost their wind; My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, My vice is in the dust all laid ; My coal is spent, my iron gone, My nails are drove, my work is done.

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