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... remains of the ancient British tongue , except in Wales , the Islands and Highlands of Scotland , part of Ireland , and some provinces of France ; which will not appear strange , when the following historical events , elucidating the ...
... remains of the ancient British tongue , except in Wales , the Islands and Highlands of Scotland , part of Ireland , and some provinces of France ; which will not appear strange , when the following historical events , elucidating the ...
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... remains of this order , the proportions of the columns are different . Ion , who built a temple to Apollo in Asia , taking his idea from the structure of man , gave six times the diameter of the base for the height of the column . Of ...
... remains of this order , the proportions of the columns are different . Ion , who built a temple to Apollo in Asia , taking his idea from the structure of man , gave six times the diameter of the base for the height of the column . Of ...
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... remains of Roman Potteries , and at a considerable depth below the present surface of the land . It is supposed also , that one of the principal Roman Potteries was on a small island ( now sunk ) at the mouth of the Thames , from the ...
... remains of Roman Potteries , and at a considerable depth below the present surface of the land . It is supposed also , that one of the principal Roman Potteries was on a small island ( now sunk ) at the mouth of the Thames , from the ...
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... remains of Hebrew sculpture are known , they had attained to a considerable proficiency in some of the most difficult processes of the art , as early as the time of Moses . The setting up of the molten calf , and the making of the ...
... remains of Hebrew sculpture are known , they had attained to a considerable proficiency in some of the most difficult processes of the art , as early as the time of Moses . The setting up of the molten calf , and the making of the ...
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... remains of the Egyptian buildings , which have so long resisted the injuries of time , and which still retain a fresh and lively colouring , seem to put the matter beyond dispute . Painting , although the accurate virtuoso cannot trace ...
... remains of the Egyptian buildings , which have so long resisted the injuries of time , and which still retain a fresh and lively colouring , seem to put the matter beyond dispute . Painting , although the accurate virtuoso cannot trace ...
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Seite 213 - The insurance offices one and all shut up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. Thus this custom of firing houses continued...
Seite 212 - The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig. Bo-bo, whose scent was wonderfully sharpened since morning, soon raked out another pig, and fairly rending it asunder, thrust the lesser half by main force into the fists of Ho-ti, still shouting out, 'Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste — O Lord!
Seite 25 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Seite 213 - ... pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged that some of the burnt pig, of which the culprits stood accused, might be handed into the box. He handled it, and they all handled it, and burning their fingers, as Bo-bo and his father had done before them, and nature prompting to each of them the same remedy, against the face of all the facts, and the clearest charge which judge had ever given — to the surprise of the whole court, townsfolk, strangers, reporters, and all present — without...
Seite 130 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First, his Cromwell — and George the Third'* — (' Treason,' cried the speaker — ' Treason, treason !' echoed from every part of the house.
Seite 213 - Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
Seite 211 - I take to be the elder brother) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swine-herd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as...
Seite 425 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Seite 112 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.
Seite 96 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.