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Σελίδα viii
... to have commenced from the argument side of the subject , and therefore with the fourth chapter on survivals , working back from them to the actual remains of Celtic and Roman London . Survivals are stubborn things to viii LONDON.
... to have commenced from the argument side of the subject , and therefore with the fourth chapter on survivals , working back from them to the actual remains of Celtic and Roman London . Survivals are stubborn things to viii LONDON.
Σελίδα ix
George Laurence Gomme. Celtic and Roman London . Survivals are stubborn things to get over . They do not exist without the strongest cause for existence , and that cause resides in the originals from which they owe their beginning . I ...
George Laurence Gomme. Celtic and Roman London . Survivals are stubborn things to get over . They do not exist without the strongest cause for existence , and that cause resides in the originals from which they owe their beginning . I ...
Σελίδα xi
George Laurence Gomme. CONTENTS CHAP . I. THE POINT OF VIEW . II CELTIC ORIGINS PAGES 1-19 20-43 III . ROMAN ORIGINS . 44-73 IV . THE SURVIVAL OF THINGS ANCIENT 74-109 V. ENGLISH INCOMINGS . 110-134 VI . THE INSTITUTION OF THE CITY 135 ...
George Laurence Gomme. CONTENTS CHAP . I. THE POINT OF VIEW . II CELTIC ORIGINS PAGES 1-19 20-43 III . ROMAN ORIGINS . 44-73 IV . THE SURVIVAL OF THINGS ANCIENT 74-109 V. ENGLISH INCOMINGS . 110-134 VI . THE INSTITUTION OF THE CITY 135 ...
Σελίδα 1
... Celts than a great stronghold on the Thames . She was something more than a city of the Roman Empire , absorbent though that position was . She was something more than a city - institution thrust in amidst incongruous Anglo - Saxon ...
... Celts than a great stronghold on the Thames . She was something more than a city of the Roman Empire , absorbent though that position was . She was something more than a city - institution thrust in amidst incongruous Anglo - Saxon ...
Σελίδα 10
... Celtic worship ; the cult of Baal as an explanation , based upon no scientific facts , of certain very ancient rites of tribal and household worship ; Celtic civilisation as the product of national instead 10 LONDON.
... Celtic worship ; the cult of Baal as an explanation , based upon no scientific facts , of certain very ancient rites of tribal and household worship ; Celtic civilisation as the product of national instead 10 LONDON.
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aldermen ancient Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle belonging boundary Bridewell Britain building Cæsar Celtic Celts centre century chapter Church citizens of London city institutions city of London city-state civilisation Common Council continuity Court cult custom Diana dominant election England evidence expansion fact Feet folkmoot force formulæ gild Governance of London Gresham College Guildhall Guildhall Museum hall Henry VIII Hist House important James Burbage king king's Londinium London history London Wall Lord Mayor Lydney Lydney Park Majesty mediæval modern municipal Norman organisation origin palace Parliament period Plantagenet position Ralph Agas recognised record remains remarkable river Roman city Roman Empire Roman London Rome royal Saxon sheriffs side Southwark sovereign sovereignty St Paul's Street struggle Stuart London survival temple Thames things tion Tower tradition tribal Tudor Tudor London View of London walls Westminster Whitehall worship
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Σελίδα 219 - I think verily that many a man taketh his death in Paul's Churchyard, and this I speak of experience ; for I myself, when I have been there...
Σελίδα 201 - ... men were full of pity and compassion, but now there is no pity ; for in London their brother shall die in the streets for cold, he shall lie sick at...
Σελίδα 202 - There was never anything pleased me better than the seeing the enemy flying with a southerly wind to the northwards. God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma; for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Σελίδα 356 - Saxons, as it appeared, were accustomed to line their graves with chalk-stones ; though some, more eminent, were entombed in coffins of whole stones. Below these were British graves, where were found ivory and wooden pins, of a hard wood, seemingly box, in abundance, of about six inches long. It seems the bodies were only wrapped up, and pinned in woollen shrouds, which being consumed, the pins remained entire. In the same row, and deeper, were Roman urns intermixed. This was eighteen feet deep,...
Σελίδα 117 - In 1262 we have the following remarkable passage. "The mayor, Thomas FitzThomas, during the time of his mayoralty, had so pampered the city populace, that, styling themselves the 'commons of the city,' they had obtained the first voice in the city. For the mayor, in doing all that he had to do, acted and determined through them, and would say to them, 'Is it your will that so it shall be?' and then, if they answered 'Ya, ya,
Σελίδα 319 - Your Committee have thus given a picture in detail of human wretchedness, filth, and brutal degradation, the chief features of which are a disgrace to a civilized country, and which your Committee have reason to fear, from letters...
Σελίδα 344 - A city in our conception is not the buildings — walls, temples, docks, and so forth; these are no more than the local habitation that provides the members of the community with shelter and safety; it is in the citizens that we find the root of the matter; they it is that replenish and organize and achieve and guard, corresponding in the city to the soul in man. Holding this view, we are not indifferent, as you see, to our city's body; that we adorn with all the beauty we can impart to it; it is...
Σελίδα 163 - Oxford scarcely, I will not say satisfies, but sustains, its clerks. Exeter supports men and beasts with the same grain. Bath is placed, or rather buried, in the lowest parts of the valleys, in a very dense atmosphere and sulphury vapour, as it were at the gates of hell.
Σελίδα 354 - Roman causeway of rough stone, close and well rammed, with Roman brick and rubbish at the bottom for a foundation, and all firmly cemented.
Σελίδα 272 - Next to be noted, the most beautiful frame of fayre houses and shoppes, that bee within the Walles of London...