The Archaeological Journal, Volume 8Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman, 1851 - Archaeology |
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... Relics from Alexandria . Stone Maul , from co . Aberdeen 421 160. Irish Stone Celt , from Mr. Brackstone's Collection 161. Inscribed Stone , at Stowford , Devon . 162. Iron Sword and Spear , found at Nottingham 163. Merchant's Mark , on ...
... Relics from Alexandria . Stone Maul , from co . Aberdeen 421 160. Irish Stone Celt , from Mr. Brackstone's Collection 161. Inscribed Stone , at Stowford , Devon . 162. Iron Sword and Spear , found at Nottingham 163. Merchant's Mark , on ...
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... relics which affection and grati- tude , personal or national , pride of country or pride of lineage , have preserved for us , -it lingers like an echo on the lips of the peasantry , surviving in their songs and traditions , renewed in ...
... relics which affection and grati- tude , personal or national , pride of country or pride of lineage , have preserved for us , -it lingers like an echo on the lips of the peasantry , surviving in their songs and traditions , renewed in ...
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... relics are of peculiar interest to the historian of literature , because they contain the germ of Written History and Poetry ; before the epic comes the ballad , the first chronicle is the sum of many legends . But unwritten tradition ...
... relics are of peculiar interest to the historian of literature , because they contain the germ of Written History and Poetry ; before the epic comes the ballad , the first chronicle is the sum of many legends . But unwritten tradition ...
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... relics of the ancient heathen worship , and that the customs of Greece and Asia Minor remain a living commentary on the text of Homer . The peasant's mind reflects what has been rather than what is . It revolves in the same circle as ...
... relics of the ancient heathen worship , and that the customs of Greece and Asia Minor remain a living commentary on the text of Homer . The peasant's mind reflects what has been rather than what is . It revolves in the same circle as ...
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... relics are in themselves worth studying , so too must be those representations which teach us how they were applied in daily life . Having considered the monuments of Imitative , I will now pass on to the monuments of Constructive Art ...
... relics are in themselves worth studying , so too must be those representations which teach us how they were applied in daily life . Having considered the monuments of Imitative , I will now pass on to the monuments of Constructive Art ...
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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.