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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... purpose briefly to mention the leading par- ticulars of this account , more especially as I believe it to be the only authentic and circumftantial one upon this curious fubject . THE Briquetage de Marfal is a large and folid mass of ...
... purpose briefly to mention the leading par- ticulars of this account , more especially as I believe it to be the only authentic and circumftantial one upon this curious fubject . THE Briquetage de Marfal is a large and folid mass of ...
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... purpose , though , I fup- pofe , out of wantonnefs . From the difcoveries hitherto made ,. the Briquetage de Marfal appears to occupy a furface of about 192,000 French toifes . Another confiderable , and equally folid ,. mafs , of the ...
... purpose , though , I fup- pofe , out of wantonnefs . From the difcoveries hitherto made ,. the Briquetage de Marfal appears to occupy a furface of about 192,000 French toifes . Another confiderable , and equally folid ,. mafs , of the ...
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... purposes of modern roads and buildings . Befides , fuch coun- tries , from their fituation , and the richness of the foil , are com- monly more exposed to damps , and confequently the buildings ' in them to a more speedy and natural ...
... purposes of modern roads and buildings . Befides , fuch coun- tries , from their fituation , and the richness of the foil , are com- monly more exposed to damps , and confequently the buildings ' in them to a more speedy and natural ...
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... purpose this stone may have been originally intended , it is manifeft , that the four figures carved upon it were meant to be perfectly fimilar to each other in attitude as well as in attributes and attire . At the interfection of the ...
... purpose this stone may have been originally intended , it is manifeft , that the four figures carved upon it were meant to be perfectly fimilar to each other in attitude as well as in attributes and attire . At the interfection of the ...
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... purpose . Mr. Morant would not only be convicted of a mistake or a falfe affertion ; but , Peterborough being a neighbouring abbey of confequence , the abbot thereof would be likely enough to know the truth of what had paffed at ...
... purpose . Mr. Morant would not only be convicted of a mistake or a falfe affertion ; but , Peterborough being a neighbouring abbey of confequence , the abbot thereof would be likely enough to know the truth of what had paffed at ...
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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.