The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsOxford University Press, 1907 - 527 pages |
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Page 11
... ( probably that on which St. Paul's Cathedral stands , as it is the highest in London ) , and gradually exchanging their burrows in the ground for huts of wicker and clay , we are to picture to ourselves our metropolitan ancestors , half ...
... ( probably that on which St. Paul's Cathedral stands , as it is the highest in London ) , and gradually exchanging their burrows in the ground for huts of wicker and clay , we are to picture to ourselves our metropolitan ancestors , half ...
Page 115
... probably helped to bring worse company . They themselves , indeed , were in no good repute . One of them , a man of the name of Turner , living in White- friars , gave rise to a singular instance of revenge recorded in the State Trials ...
... probably helped to bring worse company . They themselves , indeed , were in no good repute . One of them , a man of the name of Turner , living in White- friars , gave rise to a singular instance of revenge recorded in the State Trials ...
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... probably selected for the hospital , not only as being at the greatest convenient distance from the habitations of the good citizens its founders ( lepers being always put as far as possible out of the way ) , but because it suggested ...
... probably selected for the hospital , not only as being at the greatest convenient distance from the habitations of the good citizens its founders ( lepers being always put as far as possible out of the way ) , but because it suggested ...
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