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Old and New London
… the time of his banishment and miseries; and when he came home, never parted from him in his solitary retirements." The … appellation that would have expressed with equal force the home feeling with which we desire, however unconsciously, to …
Old and New London
… the metropolis; the sanctuary at Westminster becoming the home and head-quarters of all that was low and disreputable, …
Survey of London
… out a project proposed by Sir John Fielding for making a home for orphan girls living within the Bills of Mortality … W. Brayley, 1826. P.R.O., Works 6/60. P.R.O., Works 6/61. Home Counties Mag., vol. 6, 1924. Church Commissioners: Maps, …
Old and New London
… and to my house, to tell them that I could not come home to-night because of the dirt, and a coach could not be … struck me as very peculiar, and, as I said when I returned home, it was the colour that yellow crape would have if … inestimable library of manuscript volumes, found both at home and abroad." To the south of St. Stephen's Chapel …
Old and New London
… him in the threads of argument, and afterwards send him home with cakes and money, which was counted out to him by … resolutely adhered to the ancient spot which has been the home of the school for eight centuries, and refused to … duet and chorus, "To Arms!" and the air, "Britons, Strike Home!" both of which will ever retain a place in our national …
Old and New London
… residence for a sovereign who cares more for a comfortable home than for display. Indeed, it has often been said that, … was so ill that she feared dying before the pomp was come home. She said, 'Why don't they send the canopy for me to …
Old and New London
… come to share with Winchester the honour of being the home of royalty. At all events, long before the reign of … and Bloomsbury, and High Holborn. At the end of this our home tour, we purpose, if time and space allow us, to make …
Old and New London
… Sessions HouseWestminster HospitalTraining School and Home for NursesThe National SocietyAnecdote about Sir John … of High Church Tory country gentlemen, who when at home drank October ale. The large room in which the club … to their last resting-place in Hucknall Church, near his home at Newstead Abbey. The scene itself is thus described by …
Old and New London
… we give for what it is worth:"One day, returning to his home through Tothill Street, dressed in a suit of grey, of …
Old and New London
… to feed the ducks with bread as he went daily from his home in Pimlico to the office. One day, having called the … date of March, 1712, that he "walked in the park, and came home early to avoid the Mohocks;" and apparently not without … how suddenly they stop in full career on the ice, I went home." The park appears soon to have become a resort for all …