The Archaeological Journal, Volume 8Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman, 1851 - Archaeology |
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... , there is Historical art , or that which represents real events in history ; and Portraiture , which , taken in its widest sense , includes all representation not only of human beings 18 ON THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY .
... , there is Historical art , or that which represents real events in history ; and Portraiture , which , taken in its widest sense , includes all representation not only of human beings 18 ON THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY .
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... taken up some years since , for the purpose of repairing the highways . There are several persons in the neighbourhood who state their recollection that , some twenty years ago , a great quantity of stones were obtained from what ...
... taken up some years since , for the purpose of repairing the highways . There are several persons in the neighbourhood who state their recollection that , some twenty years ago , a great quantity of stones were obtained from what ...
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... taken , and that by directing the course of the drains to the south - east , instead of towards the south - west , or the lowest level , the channel was deepened and widened to its outlet to little purpose . It DISCOVERED BY THE HON ...
... taken , and that by directing the course of the drains to the south - east , instead of towards the south - west , or the lowest level , the channel was deepened and widened to its outlet to little purpose . It DISCOVERED BY THE HON ...
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... taken from Labarte's Introduction to the Debruge Catalogue , p . 120 ; vide also Lord Lindsay's Christian Art , vol . i . Constantinople till the Dogeship of Ordelafo Faliero , in 1105 60 ON CERTAIN ANCIENT ENAMELS .
... taken from Labarte's Introduction to the Debruge Catalogue , p . 120 ; vide also Lord Lindsay's Christian Art , vol . i . Constantinople till the Dogeship of Ordelafo Faliero , in 1105 60 ON CERTAIN ANCIENT ENAMELS .
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... taken pleasure in bringing many of them together even without regard to any ulterior use to be made of them . The collector of seals may be assured that he renders no inconsiderable service to the cause of archaeology , though he may be ...
... taken pleasure in bringing many of them together even without regard to any ulterior use to be made of them . The collector of seals may be assured that he renders no inconsiderable service to the cause of archaeology , though he may be ...
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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.