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The Venerable Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum (ed. Charles Plummer), LIBER SECUNDUS., II. (search)
uanto magis, si ei subdi coeperimus, iam nos pro nihilo contemnet. Quibus uir Domini Augustinus fertur minitans Alleged prophecy of Augustine. praedixisse, quia, si pacem cum fratribus accipere nollent, bellum ab hostibus forent accepturi; et, si nationi Anglorum noluissent uiam uitae praedicare, per horum manus ultionem essent mortis passuri. Quod ita per omnia, ut praedixerat, diuino agente iudicio patratum est. Siquidem post haec ipse, de quo diximus, rex Its fulfilment at the Battle of Chester. Anglorum fortissimus Aedilfrid collecto grandi exercitu ad ciuitatem Legionum, quae a gente Anglorum Legacaestir, a Brettonibus autem rectius Carlegion appellatur, maximam gentis perfidae stragem dedit. Cumque bellum acturus uideret sacerdotes eorum, qui ad exorandum Deum pro milite bellum agente conuenerant, seorsum in tutiore loco consistere, sciscitabatur, qui essent hi, quidue acturi illo conuenissent. Erant autem plurimi eorum de monasterio Bancor, in quo tantus fertur fuisse numerus
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 154 (search)
poorer market than ever for their corn. With the falling off of this trade, the New-York merchants will be no longer able to pay off their British creditors in grain; they will, therefore, have to part with their gold; it will go up, and greenbacks will come down, and so raise a voice from the lower levels of society that will be trumpet-tongued for peace. To smother that voice, even now Mr. Lincoln has to keep an armed force not only in New-York and Kentucky, but in Ohio, Indiana, and other States. He is even now marching one up into Iowa, to put down there a cry for peace. He is likely to have occupation for all the recruits his conscription will give in keeping down his own people. Never were the chances of the South brighter. All that we have to do is to maintain the defensive, watch our chances, and strike whenever there is an opportunity for a good stroke, either with the sword or with the pen. I am, sir, yours truly, M. F. Maury Bowden, Cheshire, August 17, 1863.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agreement of the people, (search)
. Leichestershire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Leicester, 5; Leicester, 1. Nottinghamshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Nottingham. 4: Nottingham, 1. Derbyshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Derby, 5; Derby, 1. Staffordshire, with the City of Lichfield, the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, 6. Shropshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Shrewsbury, 6; Shrewsbury, 1. Cheshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Chester, 5; Chester, 2. Lancashire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except Manchester, 6; Manchester and the Parish, 1. Yorkshire, with the Boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, except such as are hereafter named, 15; York City and the County thereof, 3; Kingston upon Hull and the County thereof, 1; Leeds Town and Parish, 1. Durham County Palatine, with the Boroughs. Towns, and Parishes therein, except Durham
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
Parliament from time to time, for the several counties of England, Wales, the Isles of Jersey and Guernsey, and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and all places within the same respectively, shall be according to the proportions and numbers hereafter expressed: that is to say, Bedfordshire, 5; Bedford Town, 1; Berkshire, 5; Abingdon, 1; Reading, 1; Buckinghamshire, 5; Buckingham Town, 1; Aylesbury, 1; Wycomb, 1; Cambridgeshire, 4; Cambridge Town, 1; Cambridge University, 1; Isle of Ely, 2; Cheshire, 4; Chester, 1; Cornwall, 8; Launceston, 1; Truro, 1; Penryn, 1; East Looe and West Looe, 1 Cumberland, 2; Carlisle, 1; Derbyshire, 4 Derby Town, 1; Devonshire, 11; Exeter, 2; Plymouth, 2; Clifton, Dartmouth, Hardness, 1; Totnes, 1; Barnstable, 1; Tiverton, 1; Honiton, 1; Dorsetshire, 6; Dorchester, 1; Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis, 1; Lyme-Regis, 1; Poole, 1; Durham, 2; City of Durham, 1; Essex, 13; Malden, 1; Colchester, 2; Gloucestershire, 5; Gloucester, 2; Tewkesbury, 1; Cirencester, 1; H
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee, Charles 1731- (search)
Lee, Charles 1731- Military officer; born in Dernhall, Cheshire, England, in 1731; was the son of a British officer, and entered the army at a very early age, having held a commission when eleven years old. At twenty he was a lieutenant in the 44th Regiment, and accompanied the troops sent to America in 1754, where he saw considerable service during the ensuing six years. His regiment participated in the battle on the Monongahela, where Braddock was defeated. That was Lee's first practical experience of warfare. He served in the campaigns from 1756 to the conquest of Canada in 1760, when he returned to England with a captain's commission, and was promoted to major of the 103d Regiment, which was disbanded in 1763, and Lee continued a major on half-pay until 1772, when he was made lieutenant-colonel on half-pay. He had served with distinction in Portugal, but was not promoted in rank, probably Charles Lee. because of the sharpness and volubility of his tongue concerning the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
s m m to the chamber, until it is even with the water of the upper level; the upper gates are then opened and the boat floated out. In descending, the boat is floated into the full chamber, the upper gates closed; the water in the chamber allowed to pass from the latter by the conduits n n to the lower level, until the level of the water on each side of the lower gates is even, when they are opened and the boat floated out. The Ellesmere and Chester Canal, England, crosses a quicksand in Cheshire, at which place cast-iron locks and lock-gates were made. The locks (B C) rise 17 feet, are founded upon piles, and formed of cast-iron plates and girders. The leaves of the gates have cast-iron heads, heels, and ribs, in separate pieces with flanges, which are fastened together with nuts and screws; the whole is covered with wooden planking. The docks and gates are stated to have given good satisfaction. The complete canal-lock was invented by Dionisio and Pietro Domenico in 1481, co
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
several rooms, going one over the other, but so that persons to and from each traveled their own stairs, though in sight of each other. The northwest tower of Pontefract Church, England, has two circular flights of stairs, winding about the same center, with separate entrances below, and distinct landings above. Winding-gear. The ancient stairs had, to avoid omens, an uneven number of steps, in order that a person might end with the same foot he commenced. At Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England, the stairs leading to the gallery wind round the trunk of an immense oak-tree, which is planted in the ground. Shuttle bobbin-winder. Wind′ing-tack′le. A purchase of one fixed three-sheave block, and a movable double or treble block, suspended from a lower-mast head, and used in getting in or off heavy freight, stores, or armament. Wind-in′stru-ment. A musical instrument in which wind is blown through a tube; in contradistinction to stringed and percussion (see list of<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
dmund Quincy's charming, English-looking place. Did you ever hear of an English traveller who, looking out of Mr. Ticknor's window, pointed out as the only two Americans he had seen who looked like gentlemen, W. Phillips and Edmund Quincy? Yet June of the same year found the writer in Pennsylvania. Worcester, June, 1859 I got home from Pennsylvania on Friday morning. Whittier was in the same region a month before me and he said, God might have made a more beautiful region than Chester County--but he never did. A beautiful rolling country, luxuriant as Kansas and highly cultivated as Brookline; horses and cattle pasturing in rich clover fields; hedges of hawthorn; groves of oak, walnut, pine, and vast columnar tulip trees towering up to heaven and holding out their innumerable cups of nectar to the gods above the clouds; picturesque great houses of brick and stone, gabled and irregular, overgrown with honeysuckle and wistaria, and such a race of men and women as the Quaker s
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
ot obvious that so long as the Confederates entertain any hopes that England will thus interfere, they will obstinately retain their cotton on the plantations, and effectually prevent our getting it in any mode? And is it not obvious that nothing will so foster and prolong these fallacious hopes as the language which, under the dread of coming pressure, these inconsiderate merchants and manufacturers are using? That the distress must be great and wide-spread in the industrial districts of Cheshire and Lancashire, if the American crop is really and permanently withheld, we entertain no doubt, and we are not surprised that all concerned (and who is not concerned?) should view the prospect with alarm. But the sole practical question is, how can the threatened danger be most effectually, and yet rightfully averted? Now, as we have repeatedly shown, the resources of the South, never very vast or very ready, are derived solely from the sales of their produce; for of accumulated funds the