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Henry Of Richmond Was Crowned King Of En...
lower class of the costume tlien exclusively _ajDpropriated to persons of Tlie quality remains . of tlie LadMargaret were deposited in the Chapel
y desi built gned by lier by son Torreg in iano "Westminster erected over Abbey her _* . Erasmus a magnif , icen at t Bishop tomb
Fisher ' s request , wrote her simple epitaph : — mother " To of Margaret R VIII ichmond who , the founde mother d salaries of Henry for VII three . and monks grand in
this convent Henry for a grammar . school at Wymborne and a preacher of God ' s word , throughout England Cambrid , and also f in or which two divini last ty
lecshe turers likewise , one a built t Oxford two , colleges the other in at honor of ge Christ , and his disci p ple e StJohnShe died in the of our Lord 1509 June 29 th . "
. . brass plate close by year , the panegyric of Skelton , , the poet
laureate , is-engraven * M . G . S .
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very like should the handsome be young remarkable lad or y a who for very something declared ugly man that . , We in she order like being that distinguishe her husb marry an d d a ,
and If are we rather cannot proud show than the traveller otherwise of our app on ellation "which his . eye rests scenery
keeps fiery wonder with streams deli the . g machinery ht Our , of we mountains that can precious at of least this are world show metal huge -famous him which cinder that supp Eng heaps on lies land which , our our in he rivers its railways gazes beauteous are with and the
orderthe fierce flames of , our furnaces by night pale the very stars , of heavenandalas ! we must also admit tliat their smoke by
tenderness day too often from dims , our , the siht blue . But sky above shut out us , as and are hides the peop its trembling le of the g
Hack h country and debasing from natural it is in beaut these y , surrounded districts that by all some that of is the coarse best ,
roug , , and feelings thus of the human lie is nature iven to are that broug shallow ht old most calumny frequently that into the heart play , -
it grows . Here accustomed the shattered to g suffering limb and the hardens scorched at bod the y frequent , the disfi sig gured ht of
countenance , and the blackened , and dismembered corpse , are matters of hand and weekl women to y console — , nay grow , the dail gentle mourners y—occurrence by the and bed ; hel of yet p anguish the not the suffering , the heavy less little is . hands sympath Houg smooth h of men y the at
the sorrowing pillow household with the tenderness are cared born for by of the love large , -liearted and sacrific ones motherly
neighbor ; everything that charity can suggest , e can
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/11/
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