Archaeologia Cambrensis

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W. Pickering, 1917

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Page 190 - Yea, even that which Mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness, when at last, Gathered like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed and self-consumed.
Page 190 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 386 - B. Fortresses on hill-tops with artificial defences, following the natural line of the hill. Or, though usually on high ground, less dependent on natural slopes for protection. c. Rectangular or other enclosures of simple plan (including forts and towns of the Romano-British period).
Page 423 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 243 - Chemical analysis does not diminish the difficulty ; the lake-coloured pigments of a miniature of the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century have been analysed by Dr. Antonio Fabroni of Arezzo, who, after stating...
Page 335 - Aetas autem proprie duobus modis dicitur : 5 aut enim hominis, sicut infantia, iuventus, senectus : aut mundi, cuius prima aetas est ab Adam usque ad Noe ; secunda a Noe usque ad Abraham ; tertia ab Abraham usque ad David ; quarta a David usque ad transmigrationem luda in Babyloniam ; quinta io deinde [a transmigratione Babylonis] usque ad adventum Salvatoris in carne ; sexta, quae nunc agitur, usque quo mundus iste finiatur.
Page 423 - He had in his house, when he died, such a quantity of gold that a horse could not carry the weight, to convey it ,to Tulgyn, about a mile off, and when put on a slodge, it was with difficulty he could draw it there.
Page 235 - The sanctity rightly and reasonably attached to the consecrated instrument of a Holy Sacrament, caused the careful preservation of fonts unchanged by centuries of rebuilding and alteration. Thus we cannot doubt that a considerable number of fonts now exist in England wherein the Saxon infant received the waters of salvation from the hand of that ancient priest whose bones, for aught we know, may moulder under the pavement of a church re-constructed on its original 1 See AqUic Soils, p.
Page 190 - To everything there is a season. ... A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
Page 343 - Ascanio quod masculum haberet in utero mulier et filius mortis erit, quia occidet patrem suum et matrem suam et erit exosus omnibus hominibus. Sic evenit : in nativitate illius mulier mortua est, et nutritus est filius, et vocatum est nomen ejus Britto.

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