The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D.: And the Antiquarian and Other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, Etc, Volume 1[Surtees] Society, 1882 - Great Britain |
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Page 161
... Britains , when they found them , as living in huts of reeds or wood , & their towns as so many woods , but the Britains who knew themselves best , cannot be supposed without reason & propriety to have given a name to their habitations ...
... Britains , when they found them , as living in huts of reeds or wood , & their towns as so many woods , but the Britains who knew themselves best , cannot be supposed without reason & propriety to have given a name to their habitations ...
Page 162
... Britains , & says they had ten or twelve of them wives together in common , especially brothers with one another , & parents with their children , very well agrees with Burrough living ; for familys cohabiting in one common room ...
... Britains , & says they had ten or twelve of them wives together in common , especially brothers with one another , & parents with their children , very well agrees with Burrough living ; for familys cohabiting in one common room ...
Page 163
... Britains could never be called burrough livers , as he before supposes , since the name of England was unknown till long after the arrival of the Saxons . The whole discourse is a mere whim.-R. G. Bridge to your metropolis . ' Tis true ...
... Britains could never be called burrough livers , as he before supposes , since the name of England was unknown till long after the arrival of the Saxons . The whole discourse is a mere whim.-R. G. Bridge to your metropolis . ' Tis true ...
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... Britain , and generally affirmed to be Roman . In page 239 he says it was found in the old tombs at Brawalstreed , where the battle was fought , A.D. 395 ( p . 237 ) , by which it appears they were Danish or Gothick , the Romans having ...
... Britain , and generally affirmed to be Roman . In page 239 he says it was found in the old tombs at Brawalstreed , where the battle was fought , A.D. 395 ( p . 237 ) , by which it appears they were Danish or Gothick , the Romans having ...
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... Britains had the use of iron , though it was not very plentifully found in this island , and it is not improbable they had then the art of forging it , because , as he says , it was produced here , but brasse imported . That the ...
... Britains had the use of iron , though it was not very plentifully found in this island , and it is not improbable they had then the art of forging it , because , as he says , it was produced here , but brasse imported . That the ...
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Page 415 - But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
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Page 391 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 171 - Of all those writings given us by the learned Oxford antiquary, there is not one that is not a disgrace to letters ; most of them are so to common sense, and some even to human nature. Yet how set out ! how tricked ! how adorned ! how extolled !"* The whole tenor of Wood's life testifies, as he himself tells us, that " books and MSS. formed his Elysium, and he wished to be dead to the world.
Page 138 - May 1731, he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the Earl of Lichfield, and widow of Colonel Lee.
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Page 236 - I see he has helped off some of his errata in the Itinerarium, but has taken no notice of some ridiculous things he made me say, wherefore I have sent him a few corrections, if there be place for them in his Latin edition.
Page 331 - I have been very busy in ordering my study, & making an exact catalogue of the books, a drye, tedious piece of slavery, God wott, but I have now finished it alphabetically, so that I can call any of my old leathern coats down very readily whenever I please, & enjoy his company as my fancy directs.
Page 104 - Thesaurus Ling. Vet. Septen." Oxon. 1705, fol. He was soon after employed in arranging the valuable collections of Robert earl of Oxford, with the appointment of librarian to his lordship. In this employment he gave such particular satisfaction, that he was allowed a handsome pension by lord Harley, the earl's eldest son and successor in the title, who retained him as librarian till ,his death.