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Page 232 - And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
Page 232 - And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
Page 208 - The communion table is a semi-oval slab of statuary marble, near eight feet long. The ascent to it is by three steps of black marble, on which is fixed an ornamental railing, representing festoons of ears of corn, and vine foliage.
Page 49 - In course of time it also became the practice to call for a pint or tankard of three-threads, meaning a third of ale, beer, and twopenny, and thus the publican had the trouble to go to three casks and turn three cocks for a pint of liquor. To avoid this trouble and waste, a brewer of the name of Harwood conceived the idea of making a liquor which should partake of the united flavours of ale, beer, and twopenny. He did so, and succeeded, calling it
Page 127 - All the rolls from the time of King John to the beginning of the reign of Richard III. are kept here in fifty-six wainscot presses.
Page 185 - Institution for diffusing the Knowledge and facilitating the general Introduction of Useful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements, and for teaching, by courses of Philosophical Lectures and Experiments, the Application of Science to the Common Purposes of Life.
Page 55 - Most of the hospitals and asylums were founded by private munificence ; of these some are endowed with perpetual revenues, and others supported by annual or occasional voluntary contributions. The alms-houses were built and endowed either by private individuals, or corporate bodies of tradesmen, and many of the free schools sprang from the same origin.
Page 141 - Covent Garden, and not being erected before the commencement of the Civil War, it was sold by the parliament to John Rivet, a brazier, living at the Dial, near Holborn Conduit, with strict •orders to break it to pieces.
Page 172 - The corporation consists of a master, four wardens, eight assistants, and eighteen elder brethren, in whom is the direction of the company; and an indefinite number of younger brothers, for any sea-faring man may be admitted into the society under that name, but without having any privilege to interfere in the controlling of its concerns.
Page 173 - Hospital ; — examine the masters of the king's ships ; — appoint pilots for the Thames; — erect light-houses and seamarks ; — grant licences to poor seamen not free of the City, to row on the Thames; and superintend the deepening and cleansing of the river.