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The Harleian Miscellany, or a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxfored's Library Volume 2; Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 Excerpt: ...to warn others that advance their heads above all others, and have not respected, but rather flatly opposed themselves against the friar mendicants of our projessioi), what their amercements, and unreprieveable penance, will be, except they tear open their oystermouthed pouches quickly, and make double amends for their parsimony. I am no Tiresias or Calchas to prophesy, but yet I cannot tell, there may be more resounding bell metal in my pen, than I am aware; and, if therebe, the firs.t peel of it is Yarmouth's: for a pattern or tiny sample, what my elaborate performance would be in this case, had 1 a full-sailed gale of prosperity to encourage me; whereas, at the dishumoured composing hereof, I may justly complain vith Ovid; Anchorajam nostram non tenet ulla ratem. My state is so tost and weather-beaten, that it hath now no anchorhold left to cleave unto. I care not, if, in a dim fair of landskip, I take the pains to descrihe this supereminent principal metropolis of the red fish. A town it is, that, ' in rich situation, exceedeth many cities, and without the which, Caput gentis, the swelling battlements of Gurguntus, a head city of Norfolk and Suffolk, would scarce retain the name of a city, but become as ruinous and desolate as Thetford or Ely, out of an hill or heap of sand, reared and forced from the sea most miraculously, and by the singular policy and uncessant inestimable expence of the inhabitants, so firmly piled and rampired against the furnish waves battery, or suing the least action of recovery, that it is more conjectural of the twain, the land, with a writ of an Ejectio Jirma, will get the upper hand of the ocean, than the ocean one crow's skip prevail against the continent. Forth of the sands, thus strugglingly as itjexalteth and lifts up its...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154163933
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154163938
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 503 gr


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