The history of Chudleigh ... and the surrounding scenery

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Стр. 104 - To show his milder face. 3 Up to her courts, with joys unknown, The holy tribes repair ; The Son of David holds his throne, And sits in judgment there. 4...
Стр. 145 - ... in the Blue John Mine, Derbyshire, and the columns of the Mammoth Cave. The source and origin of this deposit has been satisfactorily explained by Liebig as follows: "The mold of the superficial soil, being acted upon by moisture and air, evolves carbonic acid, which is dissolved by rain. The rain-water thus impregnated, permeating the calcareous strata, has the power of taking up a portion of the lime, •which it retains in a liquid condition, until from evaporation the excess of carbonic acid...
Стр. 108 - Clarke for the consideration thereinafter mentioned granted to the said parties of the second part and their heirs, a rent charge of 30s.
Стр. 56 - Lovely Devonia ! land of flowers and songs ! To thee the duteous lay. Thou hast a cloud For ever in thy sky — a breeze, a shower, For ever on thy meads ; — yet where shall man, Pursuing Spring around the globe, refresh His eye with scenes more beauteous than adorn Thy fields of matchless verdure?
Стр. 86 - I will redeem them from death ; 0 Death, I will be thy plague ! 0 grave I will be thy destruction ! Hos.
Стр. 71 - London, or to the merchant, who, after it hath passed the fuller's mill, and sometimes the dyer's vat, transports it. The large quantities whereof cannot be well guessed, but best known to the custom-book, whereunto it yields no small commodity; and this is continued all the year throughout.
Стр. 2 - Rude as the wilds around his sylvan home In savage grandeur see the Briton roam. Bare were his limbs, and strung with toil and cold, By untam'd nature cast in giant-mould. O'er his broad brawny shoulders loosely flung Shaggy and long his yellow ringlets hung. His waist an iron-belted falchion bore, Massy, and purpled deep with human gore : His scarr'd and rudely-painted limbs around Fantastic horror-striking figures frown'd, Which, monster-like, ev'n to...
Стр. 70 - First the gentleman farmer, or husbandman, sends his wool to the market, which is bought either by the comber or the spinster, and they, the next week, bring it thither again in yarn, which the weaver buys ; and the market following brings that thither again in cloth...
Стр. 108 - Cheat bread, to be distributed every Sabbath day, immediately after morning prayer, to 13 such of the poorest sort of people of the parish, as the minister, constable, and overseers of the poor should appoint.
Стр. 46 - Malay translator, and in 1827 attained the dignity of 'senior merchant,' with the offices of secretary to government and Malay translator. Later in the same year he was made a justice of the peace for Penang, Singapore, and Malacca (Singapore Chronicle, 6 Dec. 1827). In 1830 he was ' at home ' (East India Keijister and Directory, 1831).

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