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... elegant seats , and military stations , with which this district is adorned and implanted . To all which is subjoined an appendix , containing very necessary and useful information . * This is the true orthography of the name . ERRATA ...
... elegant seats , and military stations , with which this district is adorned and implanted . To all which is subjoined an appendix , containing very necessary and useful information . * This is the true orthography of the name . ERRATA ...
Page 141
... elegance and a magnificence , which expressed , in a faint degree , the general sentiment of the immen- sity and perfection of that Being to whose service it was dedicated . Most of the polished nations of antiquity have imitated their ...
... elegance and a magnificence , which expressed , in a faint degree , the general sentiment of the immen- sity and perfection of that Being to whose service it was dedicated . Most of the polished nations of antiquity have imitated their ...
Page 154
... elegant Tuscan pillars . The pews , which are of oak , are regularly dis- posed from the roof is suspended a large , handsome , brass chandelier : at the west end is the baptismal font , over which is a neat gallery , supported by very ...
... elegant Tuscan pillars . The pews , which are of oak , are regularly dis- posed from the roof is suspended a large , handsome , brass chandelier : at the west end is the baptismal font , over which is a neat gallery , supported by very ...
Page 165
... elegant fabric , neatly pewed , having two galleries , and two vestries . It was erected and compleated in the year 1771 , at the sole expence of the late Mrs. Mary Marlow of this town , who also built a house for the minister on the ...
... elegant fabric , neatly pewed , having two galleries , and two vestries . It was erected and compleated in the year 1771 , at the sole expence of the late Mrs. Mary Marlow of this town , who also built a house for the minister on the ...
Page 214
... elegant villa , is terminated on the south by Hampton and Dinmore woods , on the north by the bold Clee hills of Salop , on the north - west by those of Croft and Shobdon , and on the west by the distant and azure moun- tains of ...
... elegant villa , is terminated on the south by Hampton and Dinmore woods , on the north by the bold Clee hills of Salop , on the north - west by those of Croft and Shobdon , and on the west by the distant and azure moun- tains of ...
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ancient antiquity bailiff bailiff and capital battle beautiful borough of Leominster British Britons Broad-street Bromyard camp capital burgesses Caractacus Caractacus's castle celebrated Cholstry Church-street cider Colonel Birch command Coningsby considerable Croft descended district Docklow Eardisland Edward Edward the Confessor elegant eminence enemy erected Etnam-street Eywood favour formerly gave Glendour Harley Hereford Herefordshire hill holden honour hops Ivington John king kingdom Kingsland Kington labour land late Leominster Lord Coningsby Ludlow Luston manor mansion Marsh ment miles from Leominster monarch Mortimer o'clock original parish parliament Pinsley plock poor possessed pounds present Presteign prince principal Radnorshire Ranulph de Mortimer respectable rich Risbury river river Teme Roman royal SARNESFIELD Saxon seat shillings Shobdon side Silurian situated South-street spirit street Thomas tion tower town of Leominster troops vested victory WAGGON Wales Welsh Weobly Wigmore William
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Page 123 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 139 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made...
Page 165 - Proper names, tities used with them, and words formed from them, (5) names of things personified, (6) names of the months of the year and the days of the week, (7) names of the Deity, (8) principal words in the titles of books, essays, etc.
Page 127 - On Shrove Tuesday a bell rings at noon, which is meant as a signal for the people to begin frying their pancakes.
Page 155 - The First Part of Earl Coningsby's Case relating to the Vicaridge of l.empsler in Herefordshire ; wherein is contained a full account of all the tricks which the Lawyers ecclesiastical and temporal have made use of to deprive the said Earl of his undoubted right to present to the said Church of Lempster (not worth...
Page 315 - A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider and Perry...
Page 250 - The prowling wolf, with many a lock appears Of silky lustre ; chief, Siluria, thine ; Thine, Vaga, favour'd stream ; from sheep minute On Cambria bred : a pound o'erweighs a fleece : Gay Epsom's too, and Banstead's, and what gleams On Vecta's isle, that shelters Albion's fleet, With all its thunders ; or Salopian stores, Those which are gather'd in...
Page 283 - ... the composition of a scene which the powers of language are as incompetent to describe, as the art of the pencil is inadequate to delineate. The Lady-Lift, with a long extent of beautiful grounds to the south-east, compose a part of the charming demesne of FOXLEY, the seat of Uvedale Price, Esq. the celebrated author of
Page 281 - In Hope of Resurrection to Eternal Life Here is deposited the body of COLL. JOHN BIRCH, (Descended of a Worthy family in Lancashire,) As the...
Page 314 - Gloucester. It appears to be composed of an immense continuation of oblong, conical, and irregular hills, principally covered with fine timber ; the deep shadows of whose luxuriant foliage project over the most beautiful vales, abounding with orchards, corn-fields, and hop-grounds. The distance in the west is finely marked by the range of the Black Mountains, and the hills of Radnorshire. The prospects to the east and southeast are yet more extensive, including a very large proportion of...