The Antiquary, Volumul 31Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson E. Stock, 1895 |
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Pagina 22
... Island of Lewis , who seems to have lived during the first half of the eighteenth century , if not earlier . Hist " Description of the Lewis " appears in the second volume of Macfarlane's MS . Geo- graphical Collections relating to ...
... Island of Lewis , who seems to have lived during the first half of the eighteenth century , if not earlier . Hist " Description of the Lewis " appears in the second volume of Macfarlane's MS . Geo- graphical Collections relating to ...
Pagina 23
... island hard by the coast . " Martin , writing about 1703 , is much more definite , for he introduces the Pigmies ' Isle in his account of the Flannan Islands , other- wise known as The Seven Hunters , a tiny archipelago lying off the ...
... island hard by the coast . " Martin , writing about 1703 , is much more definite , for he introduces the Pigmies ' Isle in his account of the Flannan Islands , other- wise known as The Seven Hunters , a tiny archipelago lying off the ...
Pagina 24
... island , his description would apply wonderfully well to the largest of the Seven Holy Isles , called Eilean Môr , or the Big Island . The late Mr. T. S. Muir , who devoted all his spare moments to ecclesiological and antiquarian study ...
... island , his description would apply wonderfully well to the largest of the Seven Holy Isles , called Eilean Môr , or the Big Island . The late Mr. T. S. Muir , who devoted all his spare moments to ecclesiological and antiquarian study ...
Pagina 25
... island of Benbecula , presently to be referred to more particularly . This is , that the remains were indeed human , but that their small size is explainable on the assumption that their owners were simply babies , the progeny of ...
... island of Benbecula , presently to be referred to more particularly . This is , that the remains were indeed human , but that their small size is explainable on the assumption that their owners were simply babies , the progeny of ...
Pagina 26
... island of Pigmies , " or , as the natives call it , " the island of Little Men . " He still refrains from giving the actual native name , but , since the natives spoke Gaelic , he is obviously translating a Gaelic term when he says that ...
... island of Pigmies , " or , as the natives call it , " the island of Little Men . " He still refrains from giving the actual native name , but , since the natives spoke Gaelic , he is obviously translating a Gaelic term when he says that ...
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Abbey altar ancient antiquarian antiquities appears Archæological Archæological Society Bishop book-plates brass Buggane building Butt of Lewis called Camulodunum Castle cathedral century chapel Chesterford church Colchester contains Cormac crannog cross Cúchulainn curious death discovery Domesday Book Earl east edition Edward England English engraved excavations exhibited fairies feet Folklore Glashtin glass ground hagioscope Hill Holy illustrated inches inscription interest Irish island Isle Item King known land Lastingham late Lincolnshire London Lord Manannan Manx mark matter Maughold meeting monumental brasses Museum Notes original paper parish piece plate portion present Price printed probably published Rapallo recently record remains Roman Samian ware Scotland seems SELMESTON side Sir John Society of Antiquaries Spaxton stone story Thomas thou tion tower town volume wall wass William XXXI ရာ
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Pagina 22 - Thy Muse may, like those feathery tribes which spring From their rude rocks, extend her skirting wing Round the moist marge of each cold Hebrid isle To that hoar pile which still its...
Pagina 77 - Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full! caps full! Bushel — bushel — sacks full, And my pockets full too ! Huzza...
Pagina 168 - will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet symphonies, Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret and Rosalys.
Pagina 308 - To all who speak the English language, the history of the great agony through which the Republic of Holland was ushered into life must have peculiar interest, for it is a portion of the records of the Anglo-Saxon race — essentially the same, whether in Friesland, England, or Massachusetts.
Pagina 229 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Pagina 217 - May, to seek their health ; and the whole being found guilty, were sentenced to repent " in linens" three several sabbaths. 132 " And it is statute and ordained that if any person or persons be found superstitiously and idolatrously, after this, to have passed in pilgrimage to Christ's well on the Sundays of May to seek their health, they shall repent in sacco (sackeloth) and linen three several sabbaths, and pay twenty lib.
Pagina 118 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Pagina 215 - Montrose never lowered his aspect. The Provost, Duncan Forbes, taking leave of him at the town's end, said : ' My Lord, I am sorry for your circumstances.
Pagina 186 - I cannot think Nature is so spent and decayed, that she can bring forth nothing worth her former years. She is always the same, like herself; and when she collects her strength, is abler still. Men are decayed, and studies. She is not.
Pagina 22 - Or thither, where beneath the showery west The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid; Once foes, perhaps, together now they rest. No slaves revere them and no wars invade: Yet frequent now, at...