The Archaeological Journal, Volum 30

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Longman, Rrown [sic] Green, and Longman, 1873
 

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Side 163 - Scarce a mile off, [Red castle,] is a spot of ground where a small city once stood, the very ruins of which are almost extinct ; but the Roman...
Side 292 - And yet we need not grieve that we are in this matter poorer tlian other nations. Whatever is taken away from the greatness of particular cities and districts is added to the general greatness of the whole kingdom. Why is the history of Nürnberg greater than the history of Exeter? Simply because the history of England is greater than the history of Germany. Why have not our cities such mighty senatehouses, such gorgeous palaces, as the seats of republican freedom or of princely rule among the Italian...
Side 69 - Amber was brought over land from the shores of the Baltic to the Danube; and the barbarians were astonished at the price which they received in exchange for so useless a commodity.
Side 7 - Warwick, by a certain weapon, called a Danish axe, which being the very charter whereby the said land was given to one of his ancestors, hung up for a long time in the hall of the capital messuage, in testimony of the said...
Side 421 - Chapel within this realm, shall be provided one parchment book, at the charge of the parish, wherein shall be written the day and year of every christening, wedding, and burial, which have been in that Parish since the time that the law was first made in that behalf, so far as the ancient books thereof can be procured, but especially since the beginning of the reign of the late Queen.
Side 306 - He thus represents the high position which was held at the time, as seminaries of ecclesiastical learning and discipline, by the secular churches of Germany, by those especially of that corner of the Teutonic kingdom which might be looked on as the border-land of Germany, Gaul, and Britain, and which drew scholars from all those countries alike.
Side 129 - The mode of manufacturing the bricks of which these kilns are made, is worthy of notice. The clay was previously mixed with about one-third of rye in the chaff, which, being consumed by the fire, left cavities in the room of the grains. This might have been intended to modify expansion and contraction, as well as to assist the gradual distribution of the colouring vapour. The mouth of the furnace and top of the kiln were no doubt stopped ; thus we find every part of the kiln, from the inside wall...
Side 130 - A thick slip of the same body would then be procured, and the ornamenter would proceed by dipping the thumb, or a round mounted instrument, into the slip. The vessels, on which are displayed a variety of hunting subjects, representations of fishes, scrolls, and human figures, were all glazed after the figures were laid on; where, however, the decorations are white, the vessels were glazed before the ornaments were added. Ornamenting with figures of animals was effected by means of sharp and blunt...
Side 296 - Glastonbury is among churches. It is one of the few ties •which directly bind the Englishman to the Roman and the Briton. It is the great trophy of that stage of English Conquest, when our forefathers, weaned from the fierce creed of Woden and Thunder, deemed it enough to conquer and no longer sought to destroy.
Side 308 - But we see none the less that it was for the good of England that Exeter should fall. A question was there decided, greater than the question whether England should be ruled by Harold, Eadgar, or William, the question whether England should be one. When Exeter stood forth for one moment to claim the rank of a free Imperial city, the chief of a confederation of the lesser towns of the West — when she, or at least her rulers, professed themselves willing to receive William as an external lord, to...

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