Introduction to the Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, Intituled the Beauties of England and Wales: Comprising Observations on the History and Antiquities ... Together with Remarks on the Progress of ... Architecture in Succeeding AgesJ. Harris [and 11 others], 1818 - 676 pàgines |
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Pàgina vi
... present volume , comprising an Essay intro- ductory to the prosecution of Topographical re- searches , and to the study of our National An- tiquities . " It will be readily admitted by the candid of every class , and especially by those ...
... present volume , comprising an Essay intro- ductory to the prosecution of Topographical re- searches , and to the study of our National An- tiquities . " It will be readily admitted by the candid of every class , and especially by those ...
Pàgina xii
... present work . " I always considered your Beauties ' as not intended to enter into deep disquisitions ap- plicable only to the antiquary , or addressed merely to the local vanity of certain county inhabitants ; but , as a popular work ...
... present work . " I always considered your Beauties ' as not intended to enter into deep disquisitions ap- plicable only to the antiquary , or addressed merely to the local vanity of certain county inhabitants ; but , as a popular work ...
Pàgina xxii
... present occasion ) of its numerous friends , the Publisher and Proprietors have the sincere gratification arising from a con- sciousness of having endeavoured to realize every promise held forth at the commencement of the concern , with ...
... present occasion ) of its numerous friends , the Publisher and Proprietors have the sincere gratification arising from a con- sciousness of having endeavoured to realize every promise held forth at the commencement of the concern , with ...
Pàgina 7
... present an extract from a judi- cious modern historian : " It may not be improper to state , in one view , all that the Welsh traditions deliver of the ancient inhabitants of the island . How far individuals may chuse to accredit them ...
... present an extract from a judi- cious modern historian : " It may not be improper to state , in one view , all that the Welsh traditions deliver of the ancient inhabitants of the island . How far individuals may chuse to accredit them ...
Pàgina 9
... presents as credible only that which he finds stated in specific terms , there have oc- curred in recent years , some ... present , in a very succinct form , such observations on their religion , customs , polity , and progress in arts ...
... presents as credible only that which he finds stated in specific terms , there have oc- curred in recent years , some ... present , in a very succinct form , such observations on their religion , customs , polity , and progress in arts ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 329 - ... or return, his rent or service for the land he claimed to hold. If he held only half a knight's fee, he was only bound to attend twenty days, and so in proportion.
Pàgina 573 - The Antiquarian Itinerary; comprising Specimens of Architecture, Monastic, Castellated, and Domestic; with other Vestiges of Antiquity in Great Britain ; accompanied by Descriptions.
Pàgina 458 - Saracen works; which were afterwards by them imitated in the West : and they refined upon it every day, as they proceeded in building churches. The Italians (among which were yet some Greek refugees), and with them French, Germans, and Flemings, joined into a fraternity of architects; procuring papal bulls for their encouragement, and particular privileges : they styled themselves freemasons, and ranged from one nation to another as they found churches to be built (for •very many in those ages...
Pàgina 570 - Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain, applied to illustrate the history of families manners, habits, and arts at the different ^periods from the Norman Conquest to the Seventeenth Century.
Pàgina 558 - Index to Records, called the Originalia and Memoranda on the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Side of the Exchequer : extracted from the Records, and from the Manuscripts of Mr. Tayleure, Mr. Madox, and Mr. Chapman, formerly Officers in that Office.
Pàgina 566 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Pàgina 573 - Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of former Ages ; accompanied by Descriptions, together with Illustrations, of remarkable Incidents in Border History and Tradition. By WALTER SCOTT, Esq.
Pàgina 547 - Britannia Baconica; or, The Natural Rarities of England, Scotland, and Wales. According as they are to be found in every Shire. Historically related, according to the Precepts of the Lord Bacon; Methodically digested; and the Causes of many of them Philosophically attempted.
Pàgina 577 - Miscellaneous Views of the Coins struck by English Princes in France, Counterfeit Sterlings, Coins struck by the East India Company, those in the West India Colonies, and in the Isle of Man : also of Pattern Pieces for Gold and Silver Coins, and Gold Nobles struck abroad in Imitation of English, 7 plate«, 1769— VI.
Pàgina 143 - Nor can their enemies easily surprise them with the suddenness of their incursions; for as soon as they have marched into an enemy's land, they do not begin to fight till they have walled their camp about; nor is the fence they raise rashly made, or uneven; nor do they all abide...