ABINGDON Abbey, history of, 117.
-Bridge, old verses on, 117.'
'Adagia' of Erasmus, vast erudition of, 10. Ajunta, architectural caves at, 179.
Aldi, the Venetian printers, 11.
Alhambra, the type of Moorish architecture, 117. Amicable Life Assurance Society, origin of the, 35. Ammonites, 600 different species of, 89 Anabaptists, frantic fanaticism of the first, 26. Andreas, Bernard, his Life of Henry VII., 12. Annuity Act of 1777, 40.
Architecture, Fergusson's Illustrated Handbook of, 157; the author's singular fitness for his task, ib.; works of Ramée, Batissier, Kugler, and Hope, 158; only two distinct classes of architectural forms, Egyptian and Assyrian, 159; Assyrian the type of all Asiatic architecture, ib.; influence of Egyptian on Greece, ib.; Pelasgian, 160; pro- totype of the Doric order, Egyptian, ib.; temple of Corinth and tomb of Beni Hassan, ib.; Ionic order illustrated by the ruins of Nineveh, 160, 161; brilliant colours in Assyrian, 161; Assyrian use of the arch and vault, 162; architecture of the Jews, ib.; monuments of Lycia, 168; Corin- thian order, ib.; Etruscan monuments, 164; Ro- man architecture, 165; their preference of useful public works to ornament, 165, 166; the Basili- cas connect the Greek temples with the Western Church, 166; type of the Eastern Church, 167; mosque of Omar, ib.; Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem, 168; prototype of Byzantine ar- chitecture, ib.; progressive changes in domi- cal edifices, ib.; church of St. John at Constan- tinople, a link between classic and modern forms, 169; St. Sophia's, ib.; rise of Gothic architec- ture, ib.; Lombard architecture, 170; its influ- ence in Central Europe, ib.; the pointed arch, 171; Greek and Gothic architecture essentially religious, ib.; Mohammedan architecture, 172; palaces of Al Hadhr and of the Seleucid kings, 175; mosque of Shah Abbas, ib.; polychromatic decoration, 176; dome first employed for tombs, ib.; the Taj Mahal and architecture of India, ib.; Moorish architecture in Spain, 177; archi tecture of Turkey, 178; Bhuddist and Hindu, ib.; rock-cut monuments, 179. Arkwright's Spinning-jenny, riots from, 276. Army, want of centralization in the British, 154. Ashton, Mr. T., assassination of, 278. Assurance, life, modern origin of, 32; trace of among the crusaders, ib.; first notorious fraud respecting, 37; Demoivre's formule for, 37, 38; Buffon's theory of, 38; statute of 14 George III.
restricting, 39; anecdotes of, 40; number of companies in 1858, ib.; 'experience table' of, 41; average age of insurers, 42; the Standard, ib.; the Rock, 43; the Atlas, 45.
Auckland, description of, 194; compared to Co- rinth, 195.
Audley, the famous annuity-monger, sayings of,
Augustinian monks at Brussels, martyrdom of, 23.
Ballad writers during the civil wars of Charles I. Bayle, character of his dictionary, 61. Becket, Thomas à, kissing the shoe of, 12; treasures gathered round the tomb of, ib. ; curious relic of, ib.
Berkshire, the royal county,' 112; origin of the name, 113; divided into four districts, ib.; Nor- man and early English Church architecture, 114; Roman roads, ib.; chief families of, 114; histo- rical associations of, 115; Faringdon, ib.; Apple- ton, ib.; Abingdon, 116; Wallingford, 118; Reading, 120; Lady Place and the Lovelace fa- mily, 122; Bisham Abbey, 123; Maidenhead, ib.; Clewer, ib.; Windsor, 124; Datchet Bridge, 125; Workingham, 126; Hungerford, ib.; ballad story of the Berkshire Lady,' 127; Englefield, 128; Newbury, ib.; Wantage, 131; Berkshire during the great civil war, ib.
Berquin, Louis, history and martyrdom of, 30:
Bills of mortality, comic, of Steele and Addison, 36. Biography, its effect on the popular mind, 61.
literary, history and peculiarities of,
Blazon of English counties, clownish, 114. Blunt's, Professor, Undesigned Coincidences,' 206. Boswell's 'Life of Johnson, reasons of the interest
Bounty,' Mutiny of the, 96; removal of the de-
scendants of the mutineers to Norfolk Island, ib.
Boys, John, heroism of, during the great civil war,
Bray, history of the Vicar of, 123.
Bright's, Mr., scheme of Parliamentary reform, 308. Britons, music of the ancient, 51.
Brothers of the Common Life, order of, 4.
Buckman's, Professor, advice on weeding, 291.
Budæus, Greek learning of, 10. Building trades, strikes of the, 278. Byrd's Collection of Psalms and Sonnets, 49.
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