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Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
… of which city, so noble and so famous, they had heard the fame in their own land. Accordingly, coming to London, they …
Survey of London
… lived at this house from 1772 until 1776. He owes his fame mainly to the fact that he was a friend of Dr. Johnson … Henry Nugent Bell, a professional genealogist, who had won fame by his successful advocacy of the claim of Mr. Hans …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… farm in the Pewsey Vale, and his stock fetched prices 'the fame of which lasted for at least a generation'. When his two …
Old and New London
… an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame," established an improved system of "cross posts," at a … of Spain. Swift says of him: "Mordanto fills the trump of fame, The Christian worlds his deeds proclaim, And prints are …