A Concise History of the Parish and Vicarage of Halifax, in the County of YorkHartley and Walker, 1836 - 563 pages |
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acres adjoining aforesaid ancient appears appointed Archbishop Archbishop of York Barkisland belonging Brighouse building Calder called chancel chapel chapelry charity churchwardens court dated deed died Earl of Warren earl Warren Edward Edward III elected Elland erected Erringden Fixby forest gave governors and trustees granted Greetland hall heirs Henry Savile Heptonstall Hipperholme inhabitants king Lacy lands Lightcliffe lord Luddenden manor of Wakefield manufacturing master mentioned messuage Midgley minister Mytholm North Northowram Ovenden overseers Owram paid parcel parish church parish of Halifax persons poor pounds present Rastrick reign Richard Ripponden Rishworth river Calder Robert Saltonstall Saxon says WATSON shew shillings sir John Skircoat South Southowram Sowerby Soyland Stainland Stansfield stone tenants tenements therein thereof Thomas Thornhill town of Halifax township vicar vicar of Halifax vicarage Wakefield Warley Waterhouse WHITAKER William window yards yearly rent York
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Page 98 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 528 - 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. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 112 - I AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.
Page 98 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow : when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and No. 28.] SPECTATOR. 83 astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 98 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of* some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 167 - ... sealed and delivered in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses...
Page 413 - IN olde dayes of the king Artour, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, All was this lond fulfilled of faerie; The Elf-quene, with hire joly compagnie, Danced ful oft in many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede...
Page 472 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 46 - ... then have been the contrast, when, ranging either at a distance or immediately beneath, his eye must have caught vast tracts of forest ground stagnating with bog, or darkened by native woods, where the wild ox, the roe, the stag, and the wolf had scarcely learned the supremacy of...
Page 220 - ... the said trustees, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs...