The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past, כרך 28

כריכה קדמית
Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson
E. Stock, 1893
 

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עמוד 107 - A custom loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the Nose, harmful to the Brain, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
עמוד 54 - This boy is in memory put up of the late Fire of London, occasioned by the sin of gluttony, 1666.
עמוד 62 - Its waters are said to be medicinal, and there is a pretty tradition still extant of the circumstance through which their virtues were first discovered, and to which the spring owes its name. Two young men of the place, who were much attached to each other, were seized at nearly the same time by consumption. In one the progress of the disease was rapid — he died two short months after he was attacked by it ; while the other, though wasted almost to a shadow, had yet strength enough left to follow...
עמוד 63 - it said ; " Dig, Willie, and drink ! " He accordingly set himself to dig, and no sooner had he torn a sod out of the bank than a spring of clear water gushed from the hollow; and the bee taking a wider circle, and humming in a voice of triumph, that seemed to emulate the sound of a distant trumpet, flew away.
עמוד 82 - ... the surface of the parchment, awls to give guiding marks for ruling lines, reading frames to hold the books to be copied, rulers and weights to keep down the pages. The scribe himself was forbidden to make any alteration in the text, even when the original which he was copying was obviously wrong. Absolute silence was enjoined ; and as, nevertheless, some method of communication was necessary, there was a great variety of signs in use. If a scribe needed a book, he extended his hands and made...
עמוד 68 - I deny not but the water thereof may be medicinal, having received several credible informations that several persons, both old and young, have been cured of continued diseases by washing therein. Yet still I cannot approve of their washing three times therein, which they say they must do, neither the frequenting...
עמוד 63 - There is a rock in the neighbourhood of Fiddler's Well, so called, from the violence with which the sea beats against it when the wind blows strongly from the east. On hearing the voice he turned round, and, seeing no one, he went on, as he thought, to the place named, in the hope of meeting...
עמוד 183 - That the register of the College should have a booke provided him wherein he should from time to time write and register the names, parents...
עמוד 226 - It is true that the ape is a merry and bold beast. And that the same heart likewise of an ape, applied to the neck or head, helpeth the wit; and is good for the falling sickness...
עמוד 10 - I markid yn the fore front of the first area of the castelle self 3 great and high toures, of the which the gate house was the midle. In the secunde area ther be a 5 or 6 toures, and the stately staire up to the haul is very magnificent, and so is the haul it self, and al the residew of the house: in so much that I saw no house in the north so like a princely logginges.

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