Illustrations of British Antiquities, Derived from Objects Found in South AmericaT. Brakell, Printer, 1869 - 114 |
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... serves us in the place of History : and the various stages in the life of any advanced nation , may be seen in the present condition of certain other nations which have made less progress towards maturity . - It is necessary to observe ...
... serves us in the place of History : and the various stages in the life of any advanced nation , may be seen in the present condition of certain other nations which have made less progress towards maturity . - It is necessary to observe ...
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... serves for a spoon , or occasionally for a knife or a cup ; and a section from a circular bone is easily scraped into a ring or a bracelet . But even in Cornwall , bone implements were in use till lately , for the purpose of getting ...
... serves for a spoon , or occasionally for a knife or a cup ; and a section from a circular bone is easily scraped into a ring or a bracelet . But even in Cornwall , bone implements were in use till lately , for the purpose of getting ...
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... serves their vitality , and those whose tops are visible are in full leaf at this moment . The tradition respecting former forests where there are now deserts only , receives further confir- mation from the fact that numerous trunks of ...
... serves their vitality , and those whose tops are visible are in full leaf at this moment . The tradition respecting former forests where there are now deserts only , receives further confir- mation from the fact that numerous trunks of ...
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... served as a protection against damp and insects . At the Rio Salado mine , near Chañaral , several of the English workmen had a line of huts built against the side of a hill , and thus a portion of the architecture was saved . The ...
... served as a protection against damp and insects . At the Rio Salado mine , near Chañaral , several of the English workmen had a line of huts built against the side of a hill , and thus a portion of the architecture was saved . The ...
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... served the same purpose as the end of a spool or bobbin . Large numbers of flat and round " stones , varying from an inch to two inches in diameter , are found where " antiquities are usually procured , and their uses were long unknown ...
... served the same purpose as the end of a spool or bobbin . Large numbers of flat and round " stones , varying from an inch to two inches in diameter , are found where " antiquities are usually procured , and their uses were long unknown ...
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Strona 26 - They say, he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England '. They say, many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Strona 26 - UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE' UNDER the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...
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Strona 46 - When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit ; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows...
Strona 66 - Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
Strona 100 - For so common were all sorts of treen stuff in old time that a man should hardly find four pieces of pewter (of which one was peradventure a salt) in a good farmer's house...
Strona 43 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold: To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Strona 27 - ... palaces, navigation, &c. but now sallow, &c. are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.
Strona 56 - Highlanders is far from being acceptable to the eye: with them a small part of the plaid, which is not so large as the former, is set in folds and girt round the waist to make of it a short petticoat that reaches half way down the thigh, and the rest is brought over the shoulders, and then fastened before, below the neck, often with a fork, and sometimes with a bodkin, or sharpened piece of stick, so that they make pretty near the appearance of the poor women in London when they bring their gowns...