The Picture of Liverpool, Or Stranger's Guide1834 |
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... nearly frustrated his plans in this part of the country . The representatives for this borough , in the long parliament , were John Moore , Esq . and Richard Wyn , Knt . and Bart . And in May , 1643 , it is related that a ship was taken ...
... nearly frustrated his plans in this part of the country . The representatives for this borough , in the long parliament , were John Moore , Esq . and Richard Wyn , Knt . and Bart . And in May , 1643 , it is related that a ship was taken ...
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... nearly three yards deep , in- closing the town from the east end of Dale - street , and so westward to the river ; Dale - street end at this time , east and south - east , was a low marshy ground , covered with water from the river ...
... nearly three yards deep , in- closing the town from the east end of Dale - street , and so westward to the river ; Dale - street end at this time , east and south - east , was a low marshy ground , covered with water from the river ...
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... nearly forty years ago , men- tions an original painting , at that time in the possession of Ralph Peters , Esq . , which gives a representation of the town in the year 1680 . Whether this picture be still in existence we know not : but ...
... nearly forty years ago , men- tions an original painting , at that time in the possession of Ralph Peters , Esq . , which gives a representation of the town in the year 1680 . Whether this picture be still in existence we know not : but ...
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... nearly the end of the eighteenth century that Liverpool began to take a distin- guished lead in the commerce of the empire . Her first emerging from comparative insignifi- cance into commercial distinction , seems to have been in a ...
... nearly the end of the eighteenth century that Liverpool began to take a distin- guished lead in the commerce of the empire . Her first emerging from comparative insignifi- cance into commercial distinction , seems to have been in a ...
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... stance can the vast increase that has taken place in the trade and population of this town since the above - mentioned period . The roads , which at that day were few and nearly impassable , are 30 HISTORY OF LIVERPOOL .
... stance can the vast increase that has taken place in the trade and population of this town since the above - mentioned period . The roads , which at that day were few and nearly impassable , are 30 HISTORY OF LIVERPOOL .
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adorned afford appropriated arches bath beautiful Bold-street Bootle borough brick Brunswick Dock built canal cast iron charity Cheshire church commodious Corinthian order decorated distance divine service docks Doric Duke-street east side edifice Edmund Aikin eight elegant Ellesmere canal entablature entrance erected established Everton extensive façade feet 6 inches feet high feet wide formed galleries George's girls Gothic handsome stone front houses inhabitants institution interior Ionic order James's King's Dock kingdom late likewise Liverpool Manchester mayor ment Mersey miles occupied opened order of architecture ornamented parish parliament pediment pews pilasters placed poor port portico present principal pupils purpose river river Mersey river Weaver Salthouse Dock situate society south end south side spacious specimen spire square steam steeple street structure supported by subscription surmounted tion tower Town Hall Toxteth Park trade ture vessels wall Water-street west end west side whole
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Էջ 28 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast.
Էջ 140 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me...
Էջ 28 - Then what is man? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Էջ 140 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn...
Էջ 92 - Had I been blessed with seeing and studying these emanations of genius at an earlier period of life, the sentiment of their preeminence would have animated all my exertions ; and more character, and expression, and life, would have pervaded all my humble attempts in historical painting'.
Էջ 5 - Walton a iiii miles of nat far froia the se is paroche chirch. The king hath a castelet there, and the erle of Darbe hath a stone howse there.
Էջ 90 - Ribble Water, in a direct line northerly, and so upon the south side of the said river to Hesketh Bank easterly...
Էջ 93 - Every thing here breathes life, with a veracity, with an exquisite knowledge of art, but without the least ostentation or parade of it, which is concealed by consummate and masterly skill.
Էջ 141 - ... have for the first time been eye-witnesses of the scene which it presents, without shedding tears of sympathy and delight. Nor has their interest in the establishment been diminished by a more intimate acquaintance with it. To behold a number of our fellow-creatures, whose previous situation was so truly deplorable, become at the same time happy and useful, produces a sensation of heartfelt satisfaction, which words are unable to express. " A circumstance, which at the same time that it is highly...
Էջ 48 - Stukeley, quite unconsciously. He said the trees were so frequent that branches and trunks were often struck by the plough. || Geological Map of England, 1819. it has been since ; but enough existed even then to give us a correct view of the whole subject. He says — " There is a subterranean forest, extending all the way " along the coast, from the Ribble at Penwortham near " Preston, to the Mersey at Liverpool. The inner line of " this forest takes in Longton Moss and Much Hoole, — " crosses...