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Literary and Historical Memorials of London,Volume1

By John Heneage Jesse

2019-04-13 04:14:00

But though we must accept the existence of a London in the old obscure period when something very like modern Welsh was the language of the south-eastern part of Britain, and though we know that London was situated on a river which also had a Welsh n ... Read more
But though we must accept the existence of a London in the old obscure period when something very like modern Welsh was the language of the south-eastern part of Britain, and though we know that London was situated on a river which also had a Welsh name, we do not know directly on which side of that river it stood, and have nothing for it but to apply to the problem what a great authority has described as an historical imagination, and try if we can find a sufficient number of geographical or topographical facts to reduce the problematic side of the questions involved; and so to leave certain points, certain pedestals, so to speak, of firm ground on which we may place the foundations of the greatest city the world has seen. Less

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File size3977.978 KB
Print pages478
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2015-09-03
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1990000620912
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John Heneage Jesse
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John Heneage Jesse, English historian, son of Edward Jesse, was educated at Eton and became a clerk in the secretary's department of the Admiralty. His poem on Mary, Queen of Scots was published about...

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