Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity.., Volume 4Society of Antiquaries of London. Sold at the house of the Society [of Antiquaries], in Chancery-Lane; and by Messieurs Whiston, White, Robson Baker and Leigh, and Brown., 1786 |
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... Roman and other An- tiquities in or near the County of Brecknock in South Wales .. By John Strange , Efquire.- Page 1 H. On the Term Levant . By the Honourable Daines Barrington .. In a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Milles , Prefident of the ...
... Roman and other An- tiquities in or near the County of Brecknock in South Wales .. By John Strange , Efquire.- Page 1 H. On the Term Levant . By the Honourable Daines Barrington .. In a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Milles , Prefident of the ...
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... Roman and other Antiquities in or near the County of Brecknock in South Wales . By John Strange , Efq ; Read at the SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES , May 17 , and June 9 , 1774 . T Eft quodam prodire tenus , fi non datur ultra . HORAT . Epift ...
... Roman and other Antiquities in or near the County of Brecknock in South Wales . By John Strange , Efq ; Read at the SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES , May 17 , and June 9 , 1774 . T Eft quodam prodire tenus , fi non datur ultra . HORAT . Epift ...
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... Roman and other Antiquities in Brecknock- fhire , encourages me to communicate fome further remarks of the like nature , which were either omitted in that account , or have occurred to me fince the communication of it . Is my former ...
... Roman and other Antiquities in Brecknock- fhire , encourages me to communicate fome further remarks of the like nature , which were either omitted in that account , or have occurred to me fince the communication of it . Is my former ...
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... Roman , though the fragment of a Roman infcription engraved upon it in good cha- racters is still legible . It may not be amifs to obferve here , that the fame name , Maen y Morinnion , has been given to other fimilar monumental stones ...
... Roman , though the fragment of a Roman infcription engraved upon it in good cha- racters is still legible . It may not be amifs to obferve here , that the fame name , Maen y Morinnion , has been given to other fimilar monumental stones ...
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... Roman fta- tions existed unnamed . For fuch as lay out of the great roads , are of course feldom or never mentioned in the itineraries .. But , furely , these reafons ought rather to encourage our re-- fearches , especially in thofe ...
... Roman fta- tions existed unnamed . For fuch as lay out of the great roads , are of course feldom or never mentioned in the itineraries .. But , furely , these reafons ought rather to encourage our re-- fearches , especially in thofe ...
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Page 305 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 324 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 322 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Page 225 - Saxa movere sono testudinis et prece blanda Ducere, quo vellet. Fuit haec sapientia quondam, Publica privatis secernere , sacra profanis, Concubitu p'rohibere vago, dare iura maritis, Oppida moliri , leges incidere ligno: 400 Sic honor et nomen divinis vatibus atque Carminibus venit.
Page 258 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools; and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 392 - ... fo different from that of the towers erected in the reigns of William Rufus, and Henry I. and II. and the ornaments are fo different from thofe which •were in ufe in the reign of Edward II. (when pointed arches had long been introduced, and were...
Page 249 - And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Page 395 - Saxon architects, as the far greater number of his fubjects were Saxons; and I am rather induced to form this conclufion, becaufe I can find no authentic account whatever of the deftruction of the caftle built in Canute's time, either by war or by accident ; or of its being taken down in order to erect the prefent ftructure, as is fuppofed by fome.
Page 309 - Eighth. It contains the whole duty of the lord chamberlain, and of the officers in his department; is the original copy kept for the information of that earl; and had been compiled by order of, and approved by, the King himself in council.