Encyclopædia of Antiquities: And Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediæval, Band 1J. Nichols and Son, 1825 - 955 Seiten |
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Seite 259 - ... small jacks wee have in many ale-houses of the citie and suburbs, tip't with silver, besides the great black jacks and bombards at the court, which when the Frenchmen first saw, they reported at their returne into their countrey, that the Englishmen used to drink out of their bootes...
Seite 340 - They are used especially by horsemen, who carry them in their hands when they ride, fastening the end of the handle upon one of their thighs, and they impart so long a shadow unto them that it keepeth the heat of the sun from the upper parts of their bodies.
Seite 259 - Mazers, broad-mouth'd dishes, noggins, whiskins, piggins, crinzes, ale-bowls, wassell-bowls, court-dishes, tankards, kannes, from a pottle to a pint, from a pint to a gill. Other bottles we have of leather, but they are...
Seite 443 - King, with divisions, till themselves and their audience were tired ; after which as many players on the hautboy would, in the most harsh and discordant tones, grate forth Green Sleeves, Yellow Stockings, Gillian of Croydon, or some such common dance tune, and the people thought it fair music.
Seite 261 - A post was fixed in a pond, upon the former was placed a transverse beam, turning on a swivel with a chair at one end of it. In this the scolding woman was placed, and the end turned to the pond, and let down into the water.
Seite 25 - Next to their general harmony, their accordance with places and sites, their adaptation to the purposes for which they were designed, what must be admired in the edifices of Greece, is the high finish of all the parts. In them, the object which is not intended to be seen, is wrought with as much care as the exterior compositions. The junctures of the blocks which form the columns of the temple of Minerva are so perfect as to require the greatest attention to discover them,. and to leave a mark no...
Seite 332 - Antiq.) — 1. The Astronomical, with celestial signs and intelligible characters : — 2. The Magical, with extraordinary figures, superstitious words, and names of unknown angels: — 3. The Mixed, of celestial signs and barbarous words, but not superstitious, or with names of angels : — 4. Sigilla Flanetarum, composed of Hebrew numeral letters, used by astrologers and fortune-tellers : — . 5. Hebrew Names and Characters.— Of this last kind were those formed according to the Cabalistic art.
Seite 67 - These are the sepulchres which resemble those of Persepolis. The other kind of tomb found at Telmessus, is the true Grecian soros, the sarcophagus of the Romans. Of this sort there are several, but of a size and grandeur far exceeding any thing of the kind elsewhere, standing, in some instances, upon the craggy pinnacles of lofty, precipitous rocks. It is as difficult to determine how they were there placed, as it would be to devise means for taking them down ; of such magnitude are the single stones...
Seite 97 - The seats of those who sung in the Choir, consisted of two parts : Antica and Postica. In the Postica were the folding seats, which were raised when the singers were to stand. The folding part afforded a kind of seat, called a misericord. The part Antica made a leaning stock, upon which they reclined when the Venia was to be...
Seite 259 - Beasts, of Cocker-nuts of Goords, of the Eggs of Estriches, others made of the Shells of divers Fishes brought from the Indies and other places, and shining like Mother of Pearle.