The Archaeological Journal, Volume 8Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman, 1851 - Archaeology |
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... transformed into that fantastic and complicated character which is popularly called black letter , and in which the original simple type is some- times as difficult to recognise , as it is to ON THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY . 7.
... transformed into that fantastic and complicated character which is popularly called black letter , and in which the original simple type is some- times as difficult to recognise , as it is to ON THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY . 7.
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... called Magna Charta , but Magna Tabula , or Magna Columna ; most of the Diplo- matic record of the ancients was a Lapidary record . I have been as yet considering the written memorials of races only as they are evidence of the art of ...
... called Magna Charta , but Magna Tabula , or Magna Columna ; most of the Diplo- matic record of the ancients was a Lapidary record . I have been as yet considering the written memorials of races only as they are evidence of the art of ...
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... called . Now , the artists who executed these works had this in common , that they all tried to imitate nature , each according to his powers and means , but they differed very widely in those powers and means . Some painted , some ...
... called . Now , the artists who executed these works had this in common , that they all tried to imitate nature , each according to his powers and means , but they differed very widely in those powers and means . Some painted , some ...
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... called your attention to the example of classical art in which a particular method of study has been long and successfully carried out . Nor have I at all alluded to a most essential part of the History of Art , the tradition of its ...
... called your attention to the example of classical art in which a particular method of study has been long and successfully carried out . Nor have I at all alluded to a most essential part of the History of Art , the tradition of its ...
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... called civil architecture : all such works as bridges , exchanges , aqueducts , moles , tunnels , which , however great the original outlay , are undertaken by nations , companies , or individuals , with the ultimate hope of a ...
... called civil architecture : all such works as bridges , exchanges , aqueducts , moles , tunnels , which , however great the original outlay , are undertaken by nations , companies , or individuals , with the ultimate hope of a ...
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Page 262 - Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For, why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise th
Page 256 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller, to speak His language purer, or to tune his mind Or manners more to the harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility?
Page 244 - Museum, shows painted in the upper part of the illuminated border of the first page the armorial shield of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest son of Edward III.
Page 90 - T^HE ROMAN WALL: an Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive Account •*• of the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway, deduced from numerous personal surveys.
Page 361 - Inn Hall (which were upon the surrender replenished with the Presbyterian faction) for several years after. Further, also, having few or none in them, except their respective principals and families, the chambers in them were, to prevent ruin and injuries of weather, rented out to laiks. In a word there was scarce the face of an University left, all things being out of order and disturbed.
Page 138 - After by that phrase the district which the Roman geographers assigned to the Belgse proper — I should be little disposed to quarrel with the conclusion they have come to. Nor would I venture summarily to dismiss even the suggestion of Stukeley, that it was Divitiacus who here fixed the limits of the Belgic dominion, though I may smile at the etymological trifling by which he endeavours to support his hypothesis. This Divitiacus...
Page 202 - They brought me a draft of their drink in a brown bowl, tipt with silver, which I drank off, and at the bottom was a picture of the Virgin with the child in her arms, done in silver.
Page 133 - Belgae came as refugees to this country, and were first located in the Isle of Wight — driven, it may be, from their own country by some inundation of the sea, an accident which appears to have been the moving cause of several of those great migrations we read of in Roman history. It is clear from Caesar, that for some centuries before Christ, the...
Page 138 - Our English antiquaries assume, that the word Celtica, in this passage, was used with the same meaning as by Strabo and his contemporaries, or, in other words, that it signified Gaul, and they conclude that the island was Britain, and the round temple Stonehenge, or Avebury, or the llolrich circle, according to the particular hypothesis they are interested in supporting.
Page 108 - Choice Examples of Art Workmanship, selected from the Exhibition of Ancient and Mediaeval Art at the Society of Arts. Drawn and engraved under the superintendence of PHILIP DE LA MOTTE.