que «es como la luz» [9] ; para hablar de una mujer linda, «es como las estrellas»; para indicar un caballo rápido, «es como águila»; para elogiar a un individuo firme que no cede a los embates de la mala fortuna, «es como cuadro». — from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
By CENTURY HISTORY CO. All rights reserved Entered at Stationers Hall LONDON, ENGLAND. PRINTED IN U. S. A. ——— THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA CONCEIVED BY JOSE MARTI ESTABLISHED — from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Sometimes an audience was lacking at their performances, and on one occasion at least, Elizavéta Petróvna improved upon the Scripture parable; when an insufficient number of spectators presented themselves at the French comedy, she forthwith dispatched mounted messengers to numerous persons of rank and distinction, with a categorical demand to know why they had absented themselves, and a warning that henceforth a fine of fifty rubles would be exacted for such dereliction of duty. — from A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood
J Jewry of Bishop’s Lynn, 283 John, advantages to towns of his money difficulties, 237 ; charter to Ipswich, 223 ; to Liverpool, 270 ; to Lynn, 283 Jurats of the Cinque Ports, 386 Jury, citizens from twelve years old might serve on, 184 ; exemption from serving on, granted to burghers of Reading, 306 ; payments to “friendly,” 212 ; no trial by, in Cinque Ports, 388 , note 6 Justices, itinerant, shut out from Cinque Ports, 388 ; of the Peace, 247 K [428] Kent, men of, their evil reputation in Middle Ages, 415 Kiln of feudal lord, 199 King, the, and Commons, 25 , note 3, 26 ; his sovereign rights, 207-209 ; various officers of, who visited the towns, 208-210 ; power of, to withdraw or question the value of charters and ancient customs, 211 , 212 ; as lord of manor, 229-232 ; his sympathy with borough in questions as to rival jurisdictions, 232 , 233 ; his difficulty in finding sufficient officers, 234 ; power of granting privileges beyond that of other lords, 263 , note 2; loans to, 27 , note 2, 305 , note 1 King’s court, 208 L Labour, division of, 67 ; forced, in towns, 141 , 142 Landowners, unfavourable conditions of life of, 258-268 Language, English, prayers in, used by a Norfolk guild, 42 , note Laonnais, federative republic of, 415 Law, king’s, and town law, 236 , note Law day, business done at, 203 Law Merchant, 48 Lawsuits, increase caused by growth of trade, 58 ; of nobles, 266 Leet in Norwich, 240 , 242 , 243 Leet court, 336 ; in Lynn, 288 , 294 ; in Norwich, 230 , note 3; in Nottingham, 336 , note 3 Leghorn won by Florence, 79 Leicester , owned by lay noble, 227 ; dispute about election of mayor, 235 , note 2; town property, 269 , note ; charter from Edmund Crouchback, ib. — from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green
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