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... appears at once an inviting and a discouraging task - inviting from the variety of matter with which it abounds , and discouraging from the want of an authentic county history , which might greatly facilitate our en- deavours to treat ...
... appears at once an inviting and a discouraging task - inviting from the variety of matter with which it abounds , and discouraging from the want of an authentic county history , which might greatly facilitate our en- deavours to treat ...
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... si vos omnibus imperitare vultis , sequitur , ut omnes servitutem acci- piant . The learned editor does not appear to have rendered this passage with his usual accuracy . off . A woman sitting at the head of the SHROPSHIRE .
... si vos omnibus imperitare vultis , sequitur , ut omnes servitutem acci- piant . The learned editor does not appear to have rendered this passage with his usual accuracy . off . A woman sitting at the head of the SHROPSHIRE .
Pagina 10
... appear on the eastern side of Offa's Dyke , on pain of losing his right hand . At the period of the Norman conquest , almost the whole of this county , besides one hundred and fifty - eight Manors in other parts of the Kingdom were ...
... appear on the eastern side of Offa's Dyke , on pain of losing his right hand . At the period of the Norman conquest , almost the whole of this county , besides one hundred and fifty - eight Manors in other parts of the Kingdom were ...
Pagina 26
... appears on the south side of the Se- vern in the same line with the Wrekin , and consists of the of the hills of Acton - Burnel , Frodsley , the Lawley , Caer Caradoc and Hope Bowdler hills . Each of these like the Wrekin has the long ...
... appears on the south side of the Se- vern in the same line with the Wrekin , and consists of the of the hills of Acton - Burnel , Frodsley , the Lawley , Caer Caradoc and Hope Bowdler hills . Each of these like the Wrekin has the long ...
Pagina 27
... appears to the greatest advantage . Three or four lines of hills are seen rising one above another , the form of each of which was in all probability nearly a cube ; at present , however , from the diminution of their tops , and the ...
... appears to the greatest advantage . Three or four lines of hills are seen rising one above another , the form of each of which was in all probability nearly a cube ; at present , however , from the diminution of their tops , and the ...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... Edward Wedlake Brayley,John Britton Volledige weergave - 1813 |
The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 18,Deel 1 John Britton Volledige weergave - 1813 |
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