The natural and artificial wonders of the United Kingdom, by J. Goldsmith, Τόμος 2W. Clowes, Northumberland-court, 1825 - 356 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 98 - The University is a corporate body, described through a succession of ages by the style or title of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford.
Σελίδα 89 - A troop of labourers, to the number of sixty or more, well apparelled and wearing green Monmouth caps, all alike, carryed spades, shovels, pickaxes, and such like instruments of laborious employment, marching, after drummers, twice or thrice about the cisterne, presented themselves before the mount, where the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and a worthy company beside, stood to behold them ; and one man, in behalf of all the rest, delivered this speech : — " Long have we labour'd, long desir'd and pray'd,...
Σελίδα 226 - ... another portion drops with the water to the ground, and attaching itself to the floor, is there deposited, and becomes the stalagmite, a lumpy mass of the same matter. One of the former, of immense size, called the flitch of Bacon, occurs about the middle of the cavern, which here becomes very narrow; but, after a short space, spreads again to a greater width, and continues large and lofty till we reach another surprisingly large mass of stalactite, to which the name of Mary, Queen of Scots...
Σελίδα 316 - Garden door, will call the person who shows these places. The Theatre is a neat room, well suited for the purposes of the drama, and contains some good scenery. The Titian Room adjoins the Theatre, and contains a superb collection of pictures by this celebrated master. They are the Loves of the Gods, painted on leather, viz. Mars and Venus; Cupid and Psyche; Apollo and Daphne...
Σελίδα 144 - The whole of the important library of printed books and manuscripts which had been gradually collected by the Kings of England, from Henry VIII. to William III. was presented to the Museum by George II.
Σελίδα 271 - Grimsby, situateu on the south side of the mouth of the Humber , and it is a remarkable circumstance, that in the large tracts of low lands which lie on the south banks of that river, a little above its mouth, there is a subterraneous stratum of decayed trees and shrubs, exactly like those we observed at Sutton; particularly at...
Σελίδα 109 - Bachelor in these faculties ; it is a black silk gown, richly ornamented with black lace : the hood of the Bachelor of Law (worn as a dress) is of purple silk lined with white fur. The dress worn by the Doctor of Music on public occasions, is a rich white damask silk gown, with sleeves and facings of crimson satin, a hood of the same materials, and a round black velvet cap. The usual dresses of the Doctor and of the Bachelor in Music, are nearly the same as those of Law and Physic. The Master of...
Σελίδα 330 - It is a square of thirty feet, having three chimneys, one for the grate, a second for stoves, and the third, (now stopped up) for the great cauldron. The roof is arched, with a small cupola in the centre : it has likewise five windows, from each of which steps descend, but only in one instance to the floor; and a gallery runs round the whole interior of the building. The ancient oven is said to have allowed a tall person to stand upright in it, its diameter being fifteen feet. It has since been converted...
Σελίδα 143 - ... and, after several other inflexions, it at length divides into two branches, one going into the observatory, and the other into the workroom ; and thus the communications of the observer are conveyed to the assistant in the observatory, and the workman is directed to perform the required motions. The foundation of the apparatus by which the telescope is suspended and moved, consists of two concentric circular brick walls, the outermost of which is 22 feet in diameter, and the inside one 21 feet.
Σελίδα 148 - Twenty-four volumes relating to the history of music, which, together with a considerable collection of printed books on the same subject, were bequeathed by Sir John Hawkins.