| 1792 - 532 pages
...city. It hath on the eaftpart a tower palatine, very large and very ftrong ; whofe court and walls rife up from a deep foundation ; the mortar is tempered with the blood of beafts. On the weft are two caftles well fenced. The wall of the city is high and great, continued... | |
| 1802 - 502 pages
...It hath on the eaft part a tower palatine, very large and very ttrong : whole court and walls rife up from a deep foundation ; the mortar is tempered with the blood of beafls. On the weft are two caffles well fenced. The wall of the city is high and great, continued... | |
| 1792 - 620 pages
...churches ; befide 126 lefler parifli churches : [130 churches in all.] 411 On the weft are two caftles well fenced. The wall of the city is high and great, continued with feven gates, which are made double, and 'on the north diftin^uifhed with turrets by fpa«-s. Likewife... | |
| J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 834 pages
...City. It has on the east part a tower palatine, very large and very strong ; whose court and walls rise up from a deep foundation; the mortar is tempered...beasts. On the west are two castles well fenced. The walls of the city is high and great, continued with seven gates, which are made double, and on the... | |
| J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 422 pages
...east part a tower palatine, very large and' very strong; whose court and walls rise up. from a deepi foundation ; the mortar is tempered with the blood...beasts. On the west are two castles well fenced. The walls of the city is high and great, continued with seven gates, which are made double, and on the... | |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 452 pages
...and strong, the walls and body of which are erected upon deep foundations, and built with a cement tempered with the blood of beasts. On the west are two Castles well fortified :* and the city wall is both high and thick, with seven double Gates, f and many Towers orTurretson... | |
| George Godwin - 1838 - 368 pages
...says, " It hath on the East part, a Tower Palatine, very large, and very strong, whose court and walls rise up from a deep foundation. The mortar is tempered...beasts. On the west are two castles well fenced." of the buildings or repairing the defective portions, as might be necessary. It does not appear, however,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...(London) hath on the east part a Tower Palatine, very large and very strong, whose court and walls rise up from a deep foundation. The mortar is tempered with the blood of beasts." A strange unmanageable thing is the imagination ! There is no real connexion between the fabulous blood-tempered... | |
| Joseph Wheeler (Author of A. short history of the Tower of London) - 1844 - 44 pages
...chronicler) hath on the east part, a Tower Palatine, very large and very strong, whose court and walls rise up from a deep foundation. The mortar is tempered with the blood of beasts." Whether the writer intended the latter expression to bear a literal meaning, or to convey thereby a... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 pages
..." London hath on the east part a Tower Palatine, very large and very strong, whose court and walls rise up from a deep foundation : the mortar is tempered with the blood of beasts."* When Fitzstephen penned these lines, little did he imagine how symbolical were the materials, which... | |
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