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I remember Sussex, and as I remember it I must, if only for example, set down my roll-call of such names, as Fittleworth, where the Inn has painted panels; Amberley in the marshes; delicate Fernhurst, and Ditchling under its hill; Arundel, that is well known to every one; and Climping, that no one knows, set on a lonely beach and lost at the vague end of an impassable road; and Barlton, and Burton, and Duncton, and Coldwatham, that stand under in the shadow and look up at the great downs; and Petworth, where the spire leans sideways; and Timberley, that the floods make into an island; and No Man's Land, where first there breaks on you the distant sea.
A very nice, roomy old house, with good outbuildings. But why do you not straighten out those corners on the road to Petworth? They are death traps." "You've been there, then?" I said, astonished at the extreme smallness of the world. "Never," he said, laughing. "But I study. We study, don't we, Inster my boy, at the old General Staff.
And yet I feel that this nucleus of pure happiness housed in Kensington Square or at Petworth Manor was to the little world that revolved round the Armstrongs like a good radiator in a cold house.
Wife must have a little money, otherwise he'll have to go on letting Petworth Manor. And here's Honoria Fraser, one of the finest women I've ever met. Getting a little long in the tooth or will be soon. Let's bring 'em together and make a match of it. "So we are each convoked for a luncheon, with a projected adjournment to Kew which you spoilt and there it is.
Metcalfe could not but be highly pleased that his company was thus valued by Johnson, and he frequently attended him in airings. They also went together to Chichester , and they visited Petworth, and Cowdry, the venerable seat of the Lords Montacute. We see here how our ancestors lived. That his curiosity was still unabated, appears from two letters to Mr.
His second name is James Petworth James Armstrong. But he loathes being called 'Jimmy. "Of course, dear, I've no illusions. I'm not bad to look at indeed I sometimes quite admire my figure when I see myself after my bath in the cheval glass but I'm pretty well sure that one of the factors in Pet's admiration for me was my income.
Committees were appointed to raise men and money in numerous other districts, and were invested with almost unlimited powers; for the exercise of which in the service of the parliament, Northumberland repaired to his house at Petworth; the earls of Bedford, Holland, Portland, and Clare, and the lords Lovelace and Conway, to the king at Oxford.
England, it is not surprising to learn, was behind with the invention, but on November 25th, 1783, Count Francesco Zambeccari sent up from Moorfields a small oilskin hydrogen balloon which fell at Petworth; and in August of 1784 James Tytler ascended at Edinburgh in a fire balloon, thus achieving the first ascent in Great Britain.
Metcalfe could not but be highly pleased that his company was thus valued by Johnson, and he frequently attended him in airings. They also went together to Chichester, and they visited Petworth, and Cowdry, the venerable seat of the Lords Montacute. We see here how our ancestors lived.
From a careless examination of the papers of our celebrated countryman, Thomas Harriot, which Baron Zach had made in 1784, at Petworth, the seat of Lord Egremont, this astronomer has asserted that Harriot first observed the satellites of Jupiter on the 16th of January, 1610; and continued his observations till the 25th of February, 1612.
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