 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...a mile in length might Have served for an universal cemetery to all the parishes, distinguished by the like separations, and with ample walks of trees,...and careful -keeping, would have been an ornament and an honour to the metropolis, and might at this time have been as characteristic of the English... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...a mile in length might have served for an universal cemetery to all the parishes, distinguished by the like separations, and with ample walks of trees,...regulations and careful keeping, would have been an ornament and an honour to the metropolis, and might at this time have been as characteristic of the English... | |
 | 1834 - 532 pages
...a mile in length, might have served for an universal cemetery to all the parishes, distinguished by the like separations, and with ample walks of trees, the walks adorned with monuments, inscriptions, nnd titles, apt for contemplation and memory of the defunct." That this, or something like this, was... | |
 | Henry Laurens Pinckney - 1839 - 94 pages
...that calamity, to rid the city of its burial places, and to establish a necropolis without the city. Such a funeral grove, with proper regulations and careful keeping, would have been an ornament and an honour to the metropolis, and might at this time have been as characteristic of the English,... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 pages
...a mile in length, might have served for an universal cemetery to all the parishes, distinguished by the like separations, and with ample walks of trees...excellent law of the twelve tables* restored and renewed." Evelyn's provident suggestions have at length a fair prospect of being realised. The cemeteries, which... | |
 | 1850 - 1254 pages
...a nule in length, might have served for an universal cemetery to all the parishes, distinguished by the like separations, and with ample walks of trees,...memory of the defunct, and that wise and excellent ,w of the Twelve Tables renewed.' The pious Sir Thomas Browne says quaintly in his ' Hydriotaphia,'... | |
 | 1850 - 342 pages
...for a mile in length might have served for a universal cemetery to all the parishes, distinguished by the like separations, and with ample walks of trees...apt for contemplation and memory of the defunct.' In contrast to the quiet solemnity of such a scene, take the following picture, drawn by Mr Stone,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 1026 pages
...a mile in length, might have served for an universal cemetery to all the parishes, distinguished by the like separations, and with ample walks of trees...excellent law of the Twelve Tables restored and renewed." There were, in 1850, eight Cemeteries in the suburbs, each the property of a public Company. KKNSAL... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 896 pages
...universal o.metery to all the parishes, distinguished by the like separations, and with ample walks f trees; the walks adorned with monuments, inscriptions,...excellent law of the Twelve Tables re-stored and renewed." The several Cemeteries in the suburbs are the property of Joint-Stock Companies. From the costliness... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1892 - 606 pages
...a mile in length, might have served for a universal cemetery to all the parishes, distinguished by the like separations, and with ample walks of trees...excellent law of the Twelve Tables restored and renewed." As we have intimated above, Highgate was once important enough to possess a " Mansion House," the grounds... | |
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that when that spacious area was so long a rasa tabula, the churchyards had not been banished to the north walls of the city, where a grated inclosure of competent breadth for a mile in length might Have served for an universal cemetery to all the parishes,... 
