Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ...: 1854-1856, Volumes 7-8Society, 1855 Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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... laid for the higher cultivation of archæological science which now happily prevails . There are various circumstances characteristic of the Anglo - Saxon interments , which contributed much towards this result ; because they led people ...
... laid for the higher cultivation of archæological science which now happily prevails . There are various circumstances characteristic of the Anglo - Saxon interments , which contributed much towards this result ; because they led people ...
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... laid in a grave , at some depth below the level of the ground , so that the plunderer who sought objects of value , or the collector who sought curiosities , found nothing in the mounds they opened to encourage their researches . From ...
... laid in a grave , at some depth below the level of the ground , so that the plunderer who sought objects of value , or the collector who sought curiosities , found nothing in the mounds they opened to encourage their researches . From ...
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... laid on its back in the middle of the floor of the grave . In the MS . account of his diggings , Faussett frequently mentions traces of the existence of a coffin , but as far as my own experience goes , I am led to think that the use of ...
... laid on its back in the middle of the floor of the grave . In the MS . account of his diggings , Faussett frequently mentions traces of the existence of a coffin , but as far as my own experience goes , I am led to think that the use of ...
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... laid on the floor of the grave , which was then filled up with earth , and a mound raised above it . The pagan Saxon graves were in fact exactly the type of our ordinary churchyard graves , except that the mound was circular and ...
... laid on the floor of the grave , which was then filled up with earth , and a mound raised above it . The pagan Saxon graves were in fact exactly the type of our ordinary churchyard graves , except that the mound was circular and ...
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... laid in one grave , they were generally those of a male and female , no doubt of a man and his wife , and they were usually laid side by side , and arm in arm , with their mouths turned towards each other , and close together , as ...
... laid in one grave , they were generally those of a male and female , no doubt of a man and his wife , and they were usually laid side by side , and arm in arm , with their mouths turned towards each other , and close together , as ...
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Página 47 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Página 49 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos,...
Página 119 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Página 47 - ... prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Página 58 - On no smooth sphere the restless seasons slide, No circling motion doth swift time divide ; Nothing is there To come, and nothing Past, But an Eternal Now does always last.
Página 55 - The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies.
Página 39 - It is worth while here to observe, that the affecting parts of Chaucer are almost always expressed in language pure and universally intelligible even to this day.
Página 43 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Página 43 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays With willing sport to the wild ocean.
Página 58 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.