The Picture of Liverpool, Or Stranger's Guide1834 |
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... seen to the south , and there was probably nothing but open ground quite down to the pool , which filled the place where the Old Dock is now made . This perspective also gives you a view of a building , which was the market or town ...
... seen to the south , and there was probably nothing but open ground quite down to the pool , which filled the place where the Old Dock is now made . This perspective also gives you a view of a building , which was the market or town ...
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... seen to contain seven windows on the west front , and as the building is said to have been triangular , the other two sides doubtless contained the same number ; over this was a square lantern , or turret , which had one window on each ...
... seen to contain seven windows on the west front , and as the building is said to have been triangular , the other two sides doubtless contained the same number ; over this was a square lantern , or turret , which had one window on each ...
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... seen from the Custom - house return for the year 1764 , which states the number of vessels that were en- tered inwards to be 766 , and those entered out- wards to be 832 , forming a total of 1598 entries made in one year . The salt ...
... seen from the Custom - house return for the year 1764 , which states the number of vessels that were en- tered inwards to be 766 , and those entered out- wards to be 832 , forming a total of 1598 entries made in one year . The salt ...
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... seen that Liverpool , a few centuries ago , was a paltry town , altogether destitute of wealth and import- ance , and that not until the year 1699 was it made a separate parish from Walton , to which it had previously been merely a ...
... seen that Liverpool , a few centuries ago , was a paltry town , altogether destitute of wealth and import- ance , and that not until the year 1699 was it made a separate parish from Walton , to which it had previously been merely a ...
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it had previously been merely a chapelry . We have seen that its population in 1700 did not exceed 5714 ; consequently , we may justly infer that the number of dwelling - houses and cottages together could not , at that time , have been ...
it had previously been merely a chapelry . We have seen that its population in 1700 did not exceed 5714 ; consequently , we may justly infer that the number of dwelling - houses and cottages together could not , at that time , have been ...
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The Picture of Liverpool; Or Stranger's Guide: With Notices of the Environs ... Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1837 |
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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...