English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological, and Humorous; with Several Illustrative Appendices, 1권

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J. R. Smith, 1849

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61 페이지 - Netherlands, and about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century was brought thence to England by protestant refugees. Lewis Roberts, in ' The Treasure of Traffic,' published in 1641, makes the earliest mention extant of the manufacture in England.
181 페이지 - Wi ae lock o his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. "Mony a one for him makes mane, But nane sail ken where he is gane; Oer his white banes when they are bare, The wind sail blaw for evermair.
235 페이지 - What is he calls upon me, and would seem to lack a Vice ? Ere his words be half spoken, I am with him in a trice; Here, there, and every where, as the cat is with the mice; True Vetus Iniquitas.
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185 페이지 - And as the fyre began to brenne about hire, she made hire preyeres to oure Lord, that als wissely as sche was not gylty of that synne, that he wold...
254 페이지 - Any relation to the Spectator ?" added the guest. " Most probably," was the prompt rejoinder, " for I often see steel by his side \" XXXIII. ON Mr. AIRE, in St. Giles's Cripplegate : " Methinks this was a wondrous death, That AIRE should die for want of breath !" XXXIV. DR. HAWES was a physician in full practice. His name, one Christmas, called forth the following epigram : " Perpetual freezings, and perpetual thaws, Though bad for hips, are special good for Hawes !" XXXV. " INSCRIPTION on my bed-maker...
83 페이지 - In somer, when the shawes be sheyne, And leves be large and long, Hit is full mery in feyre foreste To here the foulys song: To se the dere draw to the dale And leve the hilles hee, And shadow hem in the leves grene Under the grene-wode tre. Hit befel on Whitsontide, Erly in a May mornyng, The Son up feyre can shyne, And the briddis mery can syng. 'This is a mery mornyng...

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