Publications of the Surtees Society, Volum 80Surtees Society, 1887 |
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Pàgina 266 - A snake proceeding from a circle is the eternal procession of the Son, from the first cause. The Egyptians frequently added wings to it, then it was the Trinity properly, but our ancestors judged, I suppose, that they could not well represent the wings in stonework, so omitted them.
Pàgina 16 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Pàgina 266 - Egyptians called this figure, Hemptha ; the Greeks, in abbreviated writing used it for Daimon, or the good genius ; the Brachmans, in the East Indies use it ; the Chinese, the ancient Persians, with whom it still remains at Persepolis ; the Americans, our Britons ; this shows it was extremely ancient ; but of all nations, our ancestors have had the greatest veneration for it, that they have expanded it in so laborious a picture, three miles...
Pàgina 340 - I was told several particulars of the great age of Henry Jenkins, but I believed little of the story for many years, till one day he coming to beg an alms, I desired him to tell me truly how old he was. He paused a little, and then said, that to the best of his remembrance, he was about 162 or 3.
Pàgina 12 - Westminster, and usually rung at the coronation and funerals of princes, having this inscription about it, " King Edward made me Thirty thousand and three ; Take me down and weigh me, And more shall you find me...
Pàgina 261 - Ravenna, a work of the seventh century. The exact localities are not given, but the names are grouped according to the part of Britain to which they belong. Those which commence the topography of Scotland are placed under this title:— "Iterum sunt civitates in ipsa Britannia quse recto tramite de Una parte in alia, id est, de oceano in oceano existunt, ac dividunt in tertia portione ipsam Britanniam.
Pàgina 277 - ... Wood yon speak of has been dead, I think, about ten years. He was a great fool, and not less a knave, to my knowledge. He wrote a most ridiculous book of Architecture. But this book on Stonehenge*, which you mention, I never saw, nor heard of; indeed, I had little curiosity to enquire after any thing on that subject since I was in possession of yours, whose discovery of the original and use of that famous remain of early Antiquity, will, I predict, be esteemed by posterity as certain, and continue...
Pàgina 348 - Again he says, in an unpublished letter of 1740, that another stone, at that time carried off, was 100 cubits more, in the whole making 400 cubits distance. This stone would obviously be in prolongation of the present line southwards. It will be seen that there is a considerable difference between Stukeley's measurements and mine, but between mine and those of the late Rev.
Pàgina 87 - ... of his engagements. I offered him to peruse every sheet of the whole book as it came out of the presse, for which he seemed very thankfull, but never sent me, except those of the Appendix containing our Letters. I wish it was not his being persuaded that he was perfectly right in all his notions, which occasioned it, though you see as well as myself that he is not clear of mistakes ; to which I must add an impatience of getting the book abroad, upon a prospect of getting a little money by it,...
Pàgina 266 - Wiltshire, is the picture of the deity ; and more particularly of the Trinity; but most particularly what they anciently called the Father and the Word, who created all things; this figure you will find on the tops of all the obelisks; being equivalent to the Hebrew Tetragrammaton.