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An Introduction to the Study of Chaucer - Page 137
by Alexander Monfries - 1875 - 139 pages
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 850 pages
...should find a time. If he was pugnacious, the encounter probably ended in a duel behind Montague House.* The houses were not numbered. There would indeed have...The shops were therefore distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque London Gardener, 1712; Evening Post, March 23. 1731. I have not...
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...should find a time. If he was pugnacious, the encounter probably ended in a duel behind Montague House.* The houses were not numbered. There would indeed have...The shops were therefore distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. The walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel...
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The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second

Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 884 pages
...find a time. If he wag pugnacious, the encounter probably ended in a duel behind Montague House.** The houses were not numbered. There would indeed have...which the most ignorant could understand. The shops • Slat. 11 Geo. I. c. 25; Commons' Journals, Feb. 25. March 2. 112j; London Gardener, 1712; Evening...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 550 pages
...should find a time. If he was pugnacious, the encounter probably ended in a duel behind Montague House.* The houses were not numbered. There would indeed have...chairmen, porters, and errand boys of London, a very small portion could read. It was necessary to use marks which the most ignorant couH understand. The shops...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 664 pages
...have been little advantage in numbering them ; for of the coachmen, chairmen, porters, and errand-boys of London, a very small proportion could read. It...The shops were therefore distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. The walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapcl...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 560 pages
...numbering them ; for of the coachmen, chairmen, porters, and errand boys of London, a very small portion could read. It was necessary to use marks which the...The shops were therefore distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. The walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...should find a time. If he was pugnacious, the encounter probably ended in a duel behind Montague House.* The houses were not numbered. There would indeed have...The shops were therefore distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. The walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel...
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 480 pages
...should find a time. If he was pugnacious, the encounter probably ended in a duel behind Montague House.f The houses were not numbered. There would indeed have...London, a very small proportion could read. It was necessary^to use marks which the most igno* Stat. 12 Geo. I. c. 25. ; Com- f Lettres sur les Anglois,...
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1861 - 1052 pages
...find a time ; if he was pugnacious, the encounter probably ended in a duel behind Montague House.* The houses were not numbered. There would, indeed,...them ; for of the coachmen, chairmen, porters, and errand-boys of London, a very small proportion could read. It wae necessary to use marks which the...
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Cosas de España: Illustrative of Spain and the Spaniards as They are, Volume 1

Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne - Spain - 1866 - 326 pages
...numbering them; for of the coachmen, chairmen, porters, and errand boys of London, a very small portion could read. It was necessary to use marks which the...The shops were therefore distinguished by painted signs, which gave a gay and grotesque aspect to the streets. The walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel...
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