An Essay on the Study of Antiquities..D. Prince, and J. Cooke; J. and J. Fletcher; also by P. Elmsly, B. White, T. Payne, and Son; London., 1782 - 142 стор. |
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... and careful review of the Inquiry , the Au- thor has fettled his own opinion con- cerning it , he is not confident enough to think himself fo well able to deter- mine disinterested judgement of others . If after the publication of ( iii )
... and careful review of the Inquiry , the Au- thor has fettled his own opinion con- cerning it , he is not confident enough to think himself fo well able to deter- mine disinterested judgement of others . If after the publication of ( iii )
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... opinion fo univerfally established of the great veneration faid to be paid by the Druids to the Oak . The Greeks and Romans not fufficiently acquainted with the manners or the language of the Druids , derived the name of thofe venerable ...
... opinion fo univerfally established of the great veneration faid to be paid by the Druids to the Oak . The Greeks and Romans not fufficiently acquainted with the manners or the language of the Druids , derived the name of thofe venerable ...
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... opinion in his Origines Françoifes , which he afterwards changed in his Origines Latines , P. II . p . 903. " Dans nos Origines Fran- çoifes nous avons dérivé ce mot Jus , droit , de Jus , potage ; " la Justice confistant a rendre a ...
... opinion in his Origines Françoifes , which he afterwards changed in his Origines Latines , P. II . p . 903. " Dans nos Origines Fran- çoifes nous avons dérivé ce mot Jus , droit , de Jus , potage ; " la Justice confistant a rendre a ...
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... obfervation , by explaining what I conceive to have been the original fignificátion of NUBO . It has been an opinion long received and almost as univerfally admitted , that Men , who formed their Ideas and words Obf . ( 80 )
... obfervation , by explaining what I conceive to have been the original fignificátion of NUBO . It has been an opinion long received and almost as univerfally admitted , that Men , who formed their Ideas and words Obf . ( 80 )
Сторінка 92
... opinion may appear , the moderate reader , who may not have parti- cularly turned his thoughts to this fubject , will be induced to fufpend his cenfure of an opinion , which may be inconfiftent with the judgement which he has usually ...
... opinion may appear , the moderate reader , who may not have parti- cularly turned his thoughts to this fubject , will be induced to fufpend his cenfure of an opinion , which may be inconfiftent with the judgement which he has usually ...
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An Essay on the Study of Antiquities: To which are Added Some Cursory ... Thomas Burgess Повний перегляд - 1781 |
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Сторінка 40 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory Or monument to ages : and thereon Offer...
Сторінка 42 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt ; but wip'd them soon.
Сторінка 115 - Perhaps it was for mankind a lucky mistake (for it was a mistake) which Mr. Locke made when he called his book, An Essay on Human Understanding. For some part of the inestimable benefit of that book has, merely on account of its title, reached to many thousands more than, I fear, it would have done, had he called it (what it is merely) A Grammatical Essay, or a Treatise on Words, or on Language.
Сторінка 51 - For a father afflicted with untimely mourning, when he hath made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a god, which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him ceremonies and sacrifices.
Сторінка 82 - She heard me thus, and though divinely brought, Yet innocence and virgin modefty, Her virtue and the confcience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unfought be won, Not obvious, not obtrufive, but retir'd, The more defirable...
Сторінка 10 - The lonians added to its original simplicity an elegance which has excited the universal admiration of posterity. The .Corinthians, a rich and luxurious people, not contented with former improvements, extended the art to the very verge of vicious refinement ; and thus (so connected in their origin are the arts, so similar in their progress and revolutions) the same genius produced those three characters of style in architecture which Dionysius of Halicarnassus, one of the most judicious critics of...
Сторінка 120 - Possessed of thee, the meanest genius grows deserving, and has a just demand for a portion of our esteem. Devoid of thee, the brightest of our kind lie lost and useless, and are but poorly distinguished from the most despicable and base. When we inhabited...
Сторінка 43 - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe. With lofs of Eden, till one greater Man Reftore us, and regain the blifsful feat, 5 Sing, heav'nly Mufe, that on the fecret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didft infpire That fhepherd, who firft taught the chofen feed...
Сторінка 11 - Corinthians gave their architecture that appearance of delicacy and effeminate refinement, which characterizes the language of Isocrates. But the lonians struck out that happy line of beauty, which, partaking of the simplicity of the one without its harshness, and of the elegance of the other without its luxuriance, exhibited that perfection of style, which is adjudged to their great poet and his best imitators. Such an art among such a people could not but produce the most exquisite models of beauty...
Сторінка 123 - ... heroes ; the godlike list of philosophers and legislators ; the forms of virtuous and equal polities, where private welfare is made the same with public ; where crowds themselves prove disinterested and brave, and virtue is made a national and popular characteristic.