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... centre of our national church life , Kent has a peculiarly notable position among the counties of England . Many ... centres . A library of respectable dimensions might be made of books con- cerning Kent , so that it may seem a ...
... centre of our national church life , Kent has a peculiarly notable position among the counties of England . Many ... centres . A library of respectable dimensions might be made of books con- cerning Kent , so that it may seem a ...
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... centre from which it may conveniently be explored , and have sought to indicate the nature of the surrounding scenery , to point out the more interesting places to be visited , and to tell something of the men and events associated with ...
... centre from which it may conveniently be explored , and have sought to indicate the nature of the surrounding scenery , to point out the more interesting places to be visited , and to tell something of the men and events associated with ...
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... centre which for hundreds of years has attracted visitors from all parts of the world will be that at which it is fittest to make a start . Before beginning our saunterings through historic towns , by lanes and footpaths , or our more ...
... centre which for hundreds of years has attracted visitors from all parts of the world will be that at which it is fittest to make a start . Before beginning our saunterings through historic towns , by lanes and footpaths , or our more ...
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... centre from which to begin our wanderings about Kent — a centre that draws , and has drawn for many centuries , visitors from all parts of the world . In this magnificent pile is summed up in stone the whole history of Christianity from ...
... centre from which to begin our wanderings about Kent — a centre that draws , and has drawn for many centuries , visitors from all parts of the world . In this magnificent pile is summed up in stone the whole history of Christianity from ...
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... centre is to be had , and another similar one from just below the brow of the hill on the road to Blean where the left side of the road is fringed with a row of old pines through which the Cathedral appears , finely framed . 20 THE ...
... centre is to be had , and another similar one from just below the brow of the hill on the road to Blean where the left side of the road is fringed with a row of old pines through which the Cathedral appears , finely framed . 20 THE ...
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Page 418 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Page 23 - WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Page 146 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yond tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more; Lest my brain...
Page 292 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 418 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages.
Page 404 - This day is call'd the feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian': Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day'.
Page 316 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 221 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us*.
Page 292 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance doth raise...
Page 26 - The king he laughed, and swore "by St. Jone, I did not think it could be gone so soone ! — Now from the third question thou must not shrinke, But tell me here truly what I do thinke.