I've come across a reference in 1654 to a ship built by John Cole shipwright of Ipswich "named the Adventure of Ipswich, of the burthen of three hundred tonns or thereabouts, wherein one (blank) ...

It is only a few years since the bar of the Bay was attempted by vessels of any burthen. Sloops now usually ascend to within a mile of Ballina, and measures are in progress to bring them up to the ...

By Ross Hetrick One of the more unusual aspects of Thaddeus Stevens’s political career is his association with the ...

She thumbs to the first page and reads under her breath. Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this ...

She thumbs to the first page and reads under her breath. Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this ...