The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, Volume 2Longmans, Green and Company, 1872 - Great Britain The volumes include essays on aspects of English history and contain Buckle's commonplace books. |
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... began with pretensions of the most arrogant kind , ART . 141 affirming that it was capable of finding out a method of changing See also the base metals into gold . When this curious fancy 18 COMMON PLACE BOOK . 42 , 43 .
... began with pretensions of the most arrogant kind , ART . 141 affirming that it was capable of finding out a method of changing See also the base metals into gold . When this curious fancy 18 COMMON PLACE BOOK . 42 , 43 .
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Henry Thomas Buckle Helen Taylor. the base metals into gold . When this curious fancy started first into existence is not exactly known . Suidas , who lived in the tenth century , informs us in his Lexicon that chemistry ... curious fancy ...
Henry Thomas Buckle Helen Taylor. the base metals into gold . When this curious fancy started first into existence is not exactly known . Suidas , who lived in the tenth century , informs us in his Lexicon that chemistry ... curious fancy ...
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... curious ordinances respecting tournaments in Antiquarian Repertory , vol . i . pp . 144-161 , 4to , 1807. The Benedictines seem to assign their origin to the 11th century ( Histoire littéraire de la France , vii . 128 ) . 97. ORIGIN OF ...
... curious ordinances respecting tournaments in Antiquarian Repertory , vol . i . pp . 144-161 , 4to , 1807. The Benedictines seem to assign their origin to the 11th century ( Histoire littéraire de la France , vii . 128 ) . 97. ORIGIN OF ...
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... curious work on the remains of ancient buildings and mosaics , denies that the primitive Christians performed their worship in crypts , and asserts that their meetings were held in houses built over or near the cemeteries ; this ...
... curious work on the remains of ancient buildings and mosaics , denies that the primitive Christians performed their worship in crypts , and asserts that their meetings were held in houses built over or near the cemeteries ; this ...
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... curious and antiquarian information is collected in the notes to the ' Druid , ' a dramatic poem by Thomas Cromwell , Lond . 1832 , 8vo " ( Horne's Introduction to Critical Study of Scripture , 8vo , 1834 , vol . iii . p . 346 ) ...
... curious and antiquarian information is collected in the notes to the ' Druid , ' a dramatic poem by Thomas Cromwell , Lond . 1832 , 8vo " ( Horne's Introduction to Critical Study of Scripture , 8vo , 1834 , vol . iii . p . 346 ) ...
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Page 117 - Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
Page 19 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 116 - Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying, showing the Unreasonableness of prescribing to other Men's Faith, and the Iniquity of persecuting Different Opinions.
Page 537 - Ecclesiastical History of the Second and Third Centuries, Illustrated from the Writings of Tertullian.
Page 148 - To the Theatre, where was acted 'Beggar's Bush,' it being very well done ; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage.
Page 684 - Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily.
Page 184 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk shot with silver threads; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness; instead of a chain, she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels. As she went along in all this state and magnificence, she spoke very graciously, first to one, then to another (whether foreign ministers, or those who attend for different reasons), in English, French, and Italian; for besides being...
Page 183 - At these spectacles, and everywhere else, the English are constantly smoaking tobacco, and in this manner: they have pipes on purpose made of clay, into the farther end of which they put the Herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again, through their nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the head.
Page 451 - In short, we have known that when some persons have been bitten by serpents, the scrapings of leaves of books that were brought out of Ireland, being put into water, and given them to drink, have immediately expelled the spreading poison, and assuaged the swelling.
Page 158 - For while with their knife, which they hold in one hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke, which they hold in the other hand, upon the same dish.