Stonyhurst College: Its Past and Present : an Account of Its History, Architecture, Treasures, Curiosities, EtcPrinted and published at the "Chronicle" office, 1870 - Catholic universities and colleges - 132 pages |
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Page 112 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 111 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Page 68 - The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, not the name of a Lawyer onely, but of the Law it selfe .... Anthore Edw.
Page 95 - ST. DUNSTAN, as the story goes, Once pulled the devil by the nose, With red-hot tongs, which made him roar, That he was heard ten miles or more.
Page 114 - Noster are of frequent occurrence, though the omission of the name of the emperor is uncommon. Another inscription on an altar found here, which Camden says " was the largest and fairest I ever saw...
Page 70 - Godfaders and Godmoders of this chylde ; we charge you that ' ye charge the fader and the moder to kepe it from fyer and ' water, and other perilles, to the age of vii yeres.
Page 56 - The terseness and liveliness of his sayings, his sweet temper and affectionate disposition, his blameless life, his learning and probity, combine to make a union of perfect simplicity with moral and intellectual greatness, which will for ever endear his memory to bis countrymen of every sect and party.
Page 5 - To the memory of Sir Bichard the most ancient monument in Mitton Church is erected, and from the inscription upon it we learn he was " Master Forester of the forest of Bowland, Steward of the Manor of Sladeburn, Lieutenant of the Isle of Man, and one of her Majesty's (Elizabeth's) deputy Lieutenants in the county of Lancaster.
Page 9 - Stonyhurst, for them to work in, and the neighbours came to spin accordingly ; the spinners came every day, and span as long a time as they could spare, morning and afternoon, from their families. This continued from April, 1699, to August, 1701. When they had all...
Page 9 - ... learned, he gave the nearest neighbours each a pound or half a pound of wool ready for spinning, and wheel, to set up for themselves ; which did a vast deal of good to that north side of Kibble, in Lancashire. Sir Nicholas Sherburn died December 15, 1717. This monument was set up by the Dowager Dutchess of Northfolk, in memory of the best of fathers and mothers, and in this vault designs to be interred herself, whenever it pleases God to take her out of this world.