The Corporation Annual, Or Recollections (not Random) of the First Reformed Town Council of the Borough of Newcastle Upon TyneW. Boag, 1836 - 66 páginas |
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... Figure - spare , stiff , and formal ; an attitudi- narian ; affects a military air , but is more like a dancing master , and seems to have nothing genu- ine about him but his formality ; appears to do every thing for effect , and ...
... Figure - spare , stiff , and formal ; an attitudi- narian ; affects a military air , but is more like a dancing master , and seems to have nothing genu- ine about him but his formality ; appears to do every thing for effect , and ...
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... a reason for being mischievous - was in the opposition in the old Corporation , and is generally so in the new - a useful man , and an excellent worker in committees . Figure , robust ; countenance , heavy ; gait , 17.
... a reason for being mischievous - was in the opposition in the old Corporation , and is generally so in the new - a useful man , and an excellent worker in committees . Figure , robust ; countenance , heavy ; gait , 17.
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... figure and attitude are dignified , but he does not sustain this - speaks low , thick , and with evident embarassment , and will as soon become an orator as Charnley will become an Adonis . Attended the meeting at the Turk's Head , but ...
... figure and attitude are dignified , but he does not sustain this - speaks low , thick , and with evident embarassment , and will as soon become an orator as Charnley will become an Adonis . Attended the meeting at the Turk's Head , but ...
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... figure , corporation size , may frequently be seen at his own shop on the Sand- hill , in the centre of the door - way , framed in wood -the figure in good relief , back ground gloomy -upon the whole , a fleshy looking , and well ...
... figure , corporation size , may frequently be seen at his own shop on the Sand- hill , in the centre of the door - way , framed in wood -the figure in good relief , back ground gloomy -upon the whole , a fleshy looking , and well ...
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... Figure , spare , and rather lanky ; cadaverous countenance ; visage , sharp and sour ; walks with one hand in his breeches pocket , and the other swinging like a pendulum ; rides like a flay - crow galvanized ; and sits in his carriage ...
... Figure , spare , and rather lanky ; cadaverous countenance ; visage , sharp and sour ; walks with one hand in his breeches pocket , and the other swinging like a pendulum ; rides like a flay - crow galvanized ; and sits in his carriage ...
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ability advocate Alderman Annual Anthony Nichol attends barouche Bench body Borough Caliban casuistries Chairman character cholera Clique Committee conservative constituents Council Room countenance DEAN STREET dissenter duties elected electors endeavoured favour feeling Fife frequently friends gain gait gentleman give Hamond HARVARD COLLEGE head hold honest honour humbug John Bull joke judgment Justice knows laugh leader liberal Little-goes looks Magistrate manner Mansion House Mayor ments municipal never Newcastle Newcastle Journal NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Nicholas old Corporation OLD SONG opinions opponents opposition party person Philipson political popular possesses principles printer's devil Quayside racter Radical rarely speaks Recollections Reformed Town Council religion respectable Saint Nicholas Saints Sandgate scarcely second edition seldom served the office SHAKESPEARE SHAKSPERE Sheriff shewing shewn shrewd sometimes spirit Talleyrand taste thing thinks Thou thought tion tongue Tory truth Tyne visage voice votes ward Whig Whig-a wish worship
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