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They then assembled to transact business in Lombard-street, among the Lombard Jews, from whom the street derives its name, and who were then the bankers of all Europe.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 Various
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Lombard-street, could not be prevailed upon to avail themselves of the new mart.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 Various
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Mr. Whately, secretary to the treasury, to whom the letters had been originally addressed, had recently died, and a sharp correspondence took place between his brother, a banker in Lombard-street, and Mr. John Temple, lieutenant-governor of New Hampshire: the former wishing to avoid the charge of giving up the documents, and the latter that of purloining them.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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It would seem that he preached the sermons contained in "The Judgment Set and Books Opened" at the church of All-Hallows, Lombard-street, at which he must have been for some time the officiating minister, and where the amusing incident, in which Webster was concerned, narrated by Wood, which had many a parallel in those times, no doubt occurred.
Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts
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Pope was born within the sound of Bowbell, in a street no less anti-poetical than Lombard-street.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 Various
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"God made the country, and man made the town;" and not even the centre of Lombard-street itself affords a truer illustration of the sentiment, than this town of mud and money, contrasted with its beautiful environs.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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[Illustration: New Buildings, Inner Temple.] "The Temple," as our readers may be aware, is an immense range of buildings, stretching from Fleet-street to the River Thames, north and south; and from Lombard-street, Whitefriars, to Essex-street, in the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various
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George-yard, Lombard-street, by Rosqua, the Greek servant of a Turkey merchant, in the year 1652; its flavour was considered so delicate, and it was thought by the statesmen of those days (no very reputable characters) to promote society and political conversation so much, that
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
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From the day of his wife's death he had abandoned all active share in the Lombard-street business, and he had now neither occupation nor delight save in waiting upon the prattlings and humoring the caprices of this infant daughter.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863
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He was inclined to imagine that the signification of certain words had suddenly changed, or that he had been in the habit of mistaking them all his life, rather than that those words meant this hard fact, namely, that he, Talbot Raleigh Bulstrode, of Bulstrode Castle, and of Saxon extraction, had been rejected by the daughter of a Lombard-street banker.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863
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