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... Mount Ephraim . Particulars respecting lodging - houses , as well as board and lodging , may be known of the respectable tradesmen of the place . The ar improvement Burtor U. who has been employed in the n the Calverley Estate is ...
... Mount Ephraim . Particulars respecting lodging - houses , as well as board and lodging , may be known of the respectable tradesmen of the place . The ar improvement Burtor U. who has been employed in the n the Calverley Estate is ...
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... Mount Sion , or Zion , Mount Ephraim , & c . shew that a species of fanaticism must have prevailed here , when those appellations were given to particular spots . Although there be no law of Moses or the Prophets to prohibit the misuse ...
... Mount Sion , or Zion , Mount Ephraim , & c . shew that a species of fanaticism must have prevailed here , when those appellations were given to particular spots . Although there be no law of Moses or the Prophets to prohibit the misuse ...
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... Mount Ephraim , on which a bowling - green was enclosed , a tavern was opened , and many lodging - houses were erected . " In a few years , we " find Tunbridge forsaken , Southborough and Rusthall rased and ruined , Mount Ephraim ...
... Mount Ephraim , on which a bowling - green was enclosed , a tavern was opened , and many lodging - houses were erected . " In a few years , we " find Tunbridge forsaken , Southborough and Rusthall rased and ruined , Mount Ephraim ...
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... Mount Ephraim ; the third to Culverden , and the northern extremity of the Wells ; and the fourth to the old part adjoining the Wells . Cal- In adverting to the other parts of this place , I claim the reader's attention , first , to its ...
... Mount Ephraim ; the third to Culverden , and the northern extremity of the Wells ; and the fourth to the old part adjoining the Wells . Cal- In adverting to the other parts of this place , I claim the reader's attention , first , to its ...
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... Mount Ephraim , is continued to the south of Culverden . This part of the Wells , says Amsinck , has " imperceptibly become a cluster of country - houses , belonging to several respectable families . " They are finely seated on the brow ...
... Mount Ephraim , is continued to the south of Culverden . This part of the Wells , says Amsinck , has " imperceptibly become a cluster of country - houses , belonging to several respectable families . " They are finely seated on the brow ...
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Page 5 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
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Page 40 - Another extraordinary old man we have had here, but of a very different turn; the noted Mr. Whiston, showing eclipses, and explaining other phenomena of the stars, and preaching the millennium and anabaptism (for he is now, it seems, of that persuasion) to gay people, who, if they have white teeth, hear him with open mouths, though perhaps shut hearts...
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Page 39 - But here, to change the scene, to see Mr. Walsh at eighty (Mr. Gibber calls him papa), and Mr. Gibber at seventy-seven, hunting after new faces; and thinking themselves happy if they can obtain the notice and familiarity of a fine woman ! — How ridiculous ! — "Mr.
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