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Σελίδα 34
... living only as a peasant's superstition . But it lives . Lud was god of the waters , and he belonged to the Celtic religion as it was established in Gaul and Spain . In Britain he was god of the Severn , for on its banks. FIG . 2 ...
... living only as a peasant's superstition . But it lives . Lud was god of the waters , and he belonged to the Celtic religion as it was established in Gaul and Spain . In Britain he was god of the Severn , for on its banks. FIG . 2 ...
Σελίδα 55
... living message . It is a tile from a bonding course in the city wall , dug up in Warwick Lane , and bearing a rude inscription which Dr Haverfield happily trans- lates into " Augustalis goes off on his own every fortnight . Augustalis ...
... living message . It is a tile from a bonding course in the city wall , dug up in Warwick Lane , and bearing a rude inscription which Dr Haverfield happily trans- lates into " Augustalis goes off on his own every fortnight . Augustalis ...
Σελίδα 71
... living on in the minds of generations who have succeeded those who actually lived under them . They survive the material shell in which they were generated , or in which they de- veloped , long after it was destroyed . The great fact ...
... living on in the minds of generations who have succeeded those who actually lived under them . They survive the material shell in which they were generated , or in which they de- veloped , long after it was destroyed . The great fact ...
Σελίδα 72
... living force they possess . They mean much in the life of the great city , standing for certain aspects of city life which did not cease when London was pushed out of the Roman Empire . She was a Roman city at the beginning of her ...
... living force they possess . They mean much in the life of the great city , standing for certain aspects of city life which did not cease when London was pushed out of the Roman Empire . She was a Roman city at the beginning of her ...
Σελίδα 75
... living parts of the social organism . Secondary survivals are those which are caused by or result from an original element in an early social organi- sation , but have grown to be something different from the original itself because ...
... living parts of the social organism . Secondary survivals are those which are caused by or result from an original element in an early social organi- sation , but have grown to be something different from the original itself because ...
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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...