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We know of a Corporation that of Abingdon, in Berkshire, the oldest town in the royal county and anciently its most important which possessed an immense store of municipal archives. These manuscript books would throw light upon the history of the borough; but in their wisdom the members of the Corporation decided that they should be sold for waste paper!
He fixed his gaze intently upon the sallow face of the American. "It was spoken by Sir Charles Abingdon." Closely as he watched Nicol Brinn while pronouncing this name he could not detect the slightest change of expression in the stoic features. "Sir Charles Abingdon," echoed Brinn; "and in what way is it connected with your case?" "In this way," answered Harley.
Do you know that Lord Norreys of Rycote, who is Earl of Abingdon, has a square keep a hundred feet high, having this device Virtus ariete fortior; which you would think meant that virtue is stronger than a ram, but which really means, you idiot, that courage is stronger than a battering-machine. Yes, I honour, accept, respect, and revere our lords.
Or consider the two Hinkseys opposite Oxford, both portions of Abingdon manors; they are granted in the general loot to two worthies bearing the names of Owen and Bridges: a doctor.
Just at that moment Lord Abingdon, in the English House of Lords, gave notice of a mischievous motion to assert the external supremacy of the English Parliament; and Lord Mansfield, in the King's Bench, decided an Irish appeal case, notwithstanding the recent statute establishing the judicial independence of the Irish courts.
"But in pursuit of a certain matter which is known to you, he has found it necessary in the interests of his safety to remain out of London for a while." "Oh," Phil Abingdon heaved a great sigh. "Oh, Your Excellency, how glad I am to hear that he is safe!"
Of the 15,000 Methodists in the Union in 1784, over one-third were in Maryland, and hence, it had the best claim for the College, and the beauty of the situation of Abingdon charmed Coke so much that he determined upon placing the College there. It was also a place easy of access, being on the direct stage line from Baltimore to Philadelphia and near the Chesapeake Bay.
Such is Abingdon Square on a night in early August when first the dog-star begins to rage. Now my friend Esper Indiman is a social philosopher; life in all its phases interests him tremendously. Consequently, he likes to take long rides on trolley-cars. He calls them his vaudeville in miniature, and sometimes the performance is amusing I acknowledge it freely.
'I think, said Miss Abingdon, 'that such discussions are best left for Sundays. 'We will go on with our dance-list, said Jane; 'Mrs. Wrottesley can let us have several rooms at the vicarage, or, if the worst comes to the worst, we might have tents in the garden.
Every stream was frozen and the earth covered with snow, when clad in white and with three knights in white garments as her attendants Maud passed unobserved through the outposts, crossed the Thames upon the ice, and made her way to Abingdon and the fortress of Wallingford. With the surrender which followed the military history of Oxford ceases till the Great Rebellion.
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