Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London

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C. Whittingham, 1854 - 580 pagina's
 

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Pagina 357 - He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Pagina 299 - Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall. His only daughter in a stranger's power; For very want he could not pay a dower.
Pagina 164 - I have ever made the law of the land the rule of my conduct, esteeming it my chief glory to reign over a free people...
Pagina 299 - ... want he could not build a wall. His only daughter in a stranger's power, For very want, he could not pay a dower ; A few...
Pagina 261 - While it was in my power I did my duty, but that being taken away by a higher power, it is my duty to obey.
Pagina 163 - I shall always be ready to receive the requests, and to listen to the complaints of my subjects : but it gives me great concern to find that any of them should have been so far misled, as to offer me an address and remonstrance, the contents of which I cannot but consider as disrespectful to me, injurious to my parliament, and irreconcilable to the principles of the constitution.
Pagina 273 - Blake, under whose auspices and command he had performed the most creditable services of his life, but in the trial of Argyle, produced letters of friendship and confidence, to take away the life of a nobleman, the zeal and cordiality of whose co-operation with him, proved by such documents, was the chief ground of his execution; thus gratuitously surpassing in infamy those miserable wretches who, to save their own lives, are sometimes persuaded to impeach, and swear away, the lives of their accomplices.
Pagina 483 - / Though men do now adore me, They ne'er did see my pedigree, Nor who was born before me. My grandsir striv'd, and wiv'd, and thriv'd, Till he did riches gather, And when he had much wealth atchiev'd, O ! then he got my father. Of happy memory, cry I, That e're his mother bore him, I had not been worth one penny Had I been born before him. To...
Pagina 496 - October 29, 1675, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable and truly noble Pattern of Prudence and Loyalty, Sir Joseph Sheldon, Knt., Lord Mayor of the City of London.
Pagina 144 - April, in the 17th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles the Second by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.

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