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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... Britain , of which England and Wales con- stitute the predominating parts , extends from fifty to fifty - eight and a half degrees of north latitude ; and is , consequently , about 500 geographical miles in length . Its greatest breadth ...
... Britain , of which England and Wales con- stitute the predominating parts , extends from fifty to fifty - eight and a half degrees of north latitude ; and is , consequently , about 500 geographical miles in length . Its greatest breadth ...
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... Britain was first applied to the inhabitants rather than to the region ; and the radical part of the term is derived from a Celtic word , primarily denoting separation and division . The same intelligent writer observes that the ...
... Britain was first applied to the inhabitants rather than to the region ; and the radical part of the term is derived from a Celtic word , primarily denoting separation and division . The same intelligent writer observes that the ...
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... Britain which is situated to the west of the rivers Severn and Dee , is presented in the preliminary pages of the seventeenth volume of this work + THE ANCIENT BRITONS . The period at which Britain was first peopled , and the district ...
... Britain which is situated to the west of the rivers Severn and Dee , is presented in the preliminary pages of the seventeenth volume of this work + THE ANCIENT BRITONS . The period at which Britain was first peopled , and the district ...
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... Britain , as connected with the locality and future history of the abori- ginal inhabitants , it may be observed , that the Celts , who had , at an early period , occupied all such parts of Britain as lay to the south of the Thames ...
... Britain , as connected with the locality and future history of the abori- ginal inhabitants , it may be observed , that the Celts , who had , at an early period , occupied all such parts of Britain as lay to the south of the Thames ...
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... Britain , about three centuries previous to the arrival of Cæsar . These invaders speedily effected a settlement in the southern and western parts of Britain ; and , in process of time , extended their conquests from the shores of Kent ...
... Britain , about three centuries previous to the arrival of Cæsar . These invaders speedily effected a settlement in the southern and western parts of Britain ; and , in process of time , extended their conquests from the shores of Kent ...
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