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... died at the age of seventy - one , and was buried at Hunstanton . His epitaph is cha- racteristic not only of the age in which such quibbling epitaphs were common , but also of the Anecdotist his son , by whom or with whose concurrence ...
... died at the age of seventy - one , and was buried at Hunstanton . His epitaph is cha- racteristic not only of the age in which such quibbling epitaphs were common , but also of the Anecdotist his son , by whom or with whose concurrence ...
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... died on the 26th Nov. 1656 . Besides his father and mother , Sir Nicholas quotes the authority of Der Stubbe , Nos . 67 , 68 , 90 , 108 . My bro . Ham . Nos . 180 , 423 . Broth . Ham . S. No. 277 . My Sist . Ham . No. 353 . My bro ...
... died on the 26th Nov. 1656 . Besides his father and mother , Sir Nicholas quotes the authority of Der Stubbe , Nos . 67 , 68 , 90 , 108 . My bro . Ham . Nos . 180 , 423 . Broth . Ham . S. No. 277 . My Sist . Ham . No. 353 . My bro ...
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... dying in 1704 , was buried in the church of St. Giles's in the Fields . According to the usual practice of former times , Sir Nicholas speaks of his wife's relations as his own . Of these we find My Wife , Nos . 123 , 173 , 175 , 365 ...
... dying in 1704 , was buried in the church of St. Giles's in the Fields . According to the usual practice of former times , Sir Nicholas speaks of his wife's relations as his own . Of these we find My Wife , Nos . 123 , 173 , 175 , 365 ...
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... died an aged spinster in 1678 i . " Ned Lewkenor " was this lady's only son , and consequently bro- ther - in - law to our Anecdotist , viz . Edward Lewkenor , of Denham , Esq . who died in 1634 , aged twenty - one , leaving by his wife ...
... died an aged spinster in 1678 i . " Ned Lewkenor " was this lady's only son , and consequently bro- ther - in - law to our Anecdotist , viz . Edward Lewkenor , of Denham , Esq . who died in 1634 , aged twenty - one , leaving by his wife ...
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... died in 1664 . To return from this digression to the other relations of Lady Le- strange : - Sir William Russell ( the father ) was himself Treasurer of the Navy ; and held that office in 1633 , at the period of the settlement on the ...
... died in 1664 . To return from this digression to the other relations of Lady Le- strange : - Sir William Russell ( the father ) was himself Treasurer of the Navy ; and held that office in 1633 , at the period of the settlement on the ...
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Page 10 - WE, the Auditors appointed to audit the Accounts of the Camden Society, report to the Society, that the Treasurer has exhibited to us an Account of the Receipts and Expenditure...
Page 90 - ... the forfeyte ; for, at the edge of the launde, an oulde man shall meet them with the same shoes that were given by the partie when he was lyving ; and, after he hath shodde them, dismisseth them to go through thick and thin, without scratch or scalle.
Page 105 - CHAPTER XXXIV The king, therefore, for his defence Against the furious queen, At Woodstock builded such a bower As never yet was seen. Most curiously that bower was built, Of stone and timber strong ; An hundred and fifty doors Did to this bower belong : And they so cunningly contrived, With turnings round about, That none but with a clew of thread Could enter in or out.
Page 2 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Page 2 - Shakespeare was godfather to one of Ben Jonson's children, and, after the christening, being in a deep study, Jonson came to cheer him up, and asked him why he was so melancholy. ' No faith, Ben,' says he, ' not I, but I have been considering a great while what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my godchild, and I have resolved at last.' ' I prythee, what ? ' says he. ' I* faith, Ben, I'll e'en give him a dozen good Latin (latten) spoons, and thou shalt translate them.
Page 34 - Your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Page 85 - How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Page 90 - ... they are of beliefe (such is their fondnesse) that once in their lives, it is good to give a pair of new shoes to a poor man, for as much as, after this life, they are to pass barefoote through a great launde, full of thornes and furzen, except by the meryte of the almes aforesaid they have redemed the...
Page 29 - Jonson was at a tavern, and in comes bishop Corbet (but not so then) into the next, room. Ben Jonson calls for a quart of raw wine, and gives it to the tapster ; Sirrah !' says he, ' carry this to the gentleman in the next chamber, and tell him I sacrifice my service to him.
Page 26 - And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the Acts of Solomon ? And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.