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 стор. |
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... appear most ingenious , while they partake least of fancy . On viewing the usual character of the whole range of primary local appellations , it may be rationally believed , with Dr. Borlase , that the word Brit , or Brith , signifies ...
... appear most ingenious , while they partake least of fancy . On viewing the usual character of the whole range of primary local appellations , it may be rationally believed , with Dr. Borlase , that the word Brit , or Brith , signifies ...
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... appear to have occupied the tract of country now divided into the counties of Hertford , Bedford , Buckingham , Middlesex , and Essex ; having their principal town at Verola- mium , ( St. Alban's . ) To the north of the Thames dwelt the ...
... appear to have occupied the tract of country now divided into the counties of Hertford , Bedford , Buckingham , Middlesex , and Essex ; having their principal town at Verola- mium , ( St. Alban's . ) To the north of the Thames dwelt the ...
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... appear chiefly to have inhabited the counties of Lincoln , Leicester , Nottingham , Derby , and Rutland , with the ... appears to have been possessed by a tribe which is termed Huiccii , by Bede , but is called Jugantes , by Tacitus ...
... appear chiefly to have inhabited the counties of Lincoln , Leicester , Nottingham , Derby , and Rutland , with the ... appears to have been possessed by a tribe which is termed Huiccii , by Bede , but is called Jugantes , by Tacitus ...
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... appears that the Belgæ intro- duced to our island a manufacture , essential to the comfort of man in a rude state , and ... appear that the Celtic chieftains had adopted the use of woollen vestures , when they first became known to the ...
... appears that the Belgæ intro- duced to our island a manufacture , essential to the comfort of man in a rude state , and ... appear that the Celtic chieftains had adopted the use of woollen vestures , when they first became known to the ...
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... appear that the habitations of the Celtic tribes were nearly of a similar description . The round , or oblong ground - form , with a conical roofing , is , indeed , the character of building almost invariable with the early stages of ...
... appear that the habitations of the Celtic tribes were nearly of a similar description . The round , or oblong ground - form , with a conical roofing , is , indeed , the character of building almost invariable with the early stages of ...
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