Two lectures on the remains of ancient pagan Britain; illustr. with drawings |
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... sacred and profane History , that the sublime , resulting from magnitude only , preceded that sublimity which was the offspring of magnitude , combined with elegance and beauty . Writing must either have been totally unknown to the most ...
... sacred and profane History , that the sublime , resulting from magnitude only , preceded that sublimity which was the offspring of magnitude , combined with elegance and beauty . Writing must either have been totally unknown to the most ...
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... Sacred Writ , are The Toalmen , or Holed Stone The Logan , or Rocking Stone : Of the patriarchal erections of un - hewn stone , the Altar is the most ancient — the Pillar , the most simple - and , on that account , probably the most ...
... Sacred Writ , are The Toalmen , or Holed Stone The Logan , or Rocking Stone : Of the patriarchal erections of un - hewn stone , the Altar is the most ancient — the Pillar , the most simple - and , on that account , probably the most ...
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... Sacred Writ the Pillars are denominated STONES OF MEMORIAL , and in this character they were applied in various ways . I. In commemoration of some eminent display of Divine Goodness , II . As the memorial of some civil compact , III ...
... Sacred Writ the Pillars are denominated STONES OF MEMORIAL , and in this character they were applied in various ways . I. In commemoration of some eminent display of Divine Goodness , II . As the memorial of some civil compact , III ...
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Thomas Stackhouse. sacred volume it is marked by an elegant simplicity . When on his journey , or rather flight , from Beersheba to Haram , the youthful and solitary fugitive lighted on a certain place where he determined to tarry all ...
Thomas Stackhouse. sacred volume it is marked by an elegant simplicity . When on his journey , or rather flight , from Beersheba to Haram , the youthful and solitary fugitive lighted on a certain place where he determined to tarry all ...
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... sacred structures in places so remote , and , at that early period , so inaccessile to each other as Hindostan and Britain ; in short , these Pillars and Altars , found in places so distant from each other , are corroborating evidences ...
... sacred structures in places so remote , and , at that early period , so inaccessile to each other as Hindostan and Britain ; in short , these Pillars and Altars , found in places so distant from each other , are corroborating evidences ...
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ABEN MESICHITH Abury Abury and Stonehenge ancient British ancient Britons antiquity appears Baal Bards Barrow Beltane Bethel brass Brighton Britain British priests buried Cæsar called Camp Canaanitish Cassiterides Celts chariots Christian circular Cornwall Cromlech Crystal cubits cubits high declivities derived diameter distance ditto divine Drawing earth enchased erected evident exhibited existed feet Fibula fire formed frequently Gaash gold Grecians ground heap Hebrew idolatry ILIAD inches Israelites Jacob Joshua Kennet Avenue kind large stone Lecture LIATH MEISICHITH LINCHETS masses massy military cars Mount Ephraim nations noticed origin Pagan Palestine patriarchal Patroclus person Phenicians Pillars and Altars probable referred remains rites Rocking Stone Sacred Writ sepulchral mounds Silbury Hill Sir R. C. solemn South specimens stone of speculation Stonehenge Stones of Memorial structure superstitions Tartessus temple terraces thee Tolmen tourquoise trench trilithons Tumulus Tyrians unto URIM and THUMMIM valley vestiges worship
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Page 6 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 58 - Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Page 6 - And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, "I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
Page 6 - And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place ! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 9 - When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones ? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Page 87 - At her command rush forth the steeds divine ; Rich with immortal gold their trappings shine. Bright Hebe waits ; by Hebe, ever young, The whirling wheels are to the chariot hung. On the bright axle turns the bidden wheel Of sounding brass; the polish'd axle, steel.
Page 7 - This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
Page 45 - ... taste what I eat or what I drink ? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women ? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king...
Page 42 - And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art : and they made a very great burning for him.
Page 88 - The car, the car of war comes on, like the flame of death ! the rapid car of Cuthullin, the noble son of Semo! It bends behind like a wave near a rock ; like the sun-streaked mist of the heath. Its sides are embossed with stones, and sparkle like the sea round the boat of night. Of polished yew is its beam ; its seat of the smoothest bone. The sides are replenished with spears; the bottom is the footstool of heroes...