The Numismatic Chronicle, Volume 19Royal Numismatic Society., 1858 - Numismatics Proceedings of the Society are included in each volume, beginning with v. 5 (except v. 10, 19, and new ser., v. 4) |
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Agaunum Alemanni allude Alps ancient Antimachus Apollo Apollodotus appears Arian Avenches Aventicum Bactrian Bayley Bibárs Bishop of Lausanne built Burgundians Cæsar called Canton Capt Carmoly castle century chaplet Christian Chron church coins Copper Didrachma Dioscuri Emperor engraved Eucratides Fieschi figure fillet Gaelic Gaul Geneva Greek head of king Hebrew Helvetia Hemidrachma Hercules horse horseman inscribed inscription Ireland Irish Jews Jupiter Keltic lake language Latin Legend Lemlein Máhárajasa Mahatasa Marius Martigny medal Melik Menestrier mention Monog monograms mountains Nantuates Nion Numismatic observed Obv.-Head of king Obv.-Helmeted head obverse Octodurum Payerne Pays de Vaud reverse Rhine right hand river Robinson Roman round towers Savoy says Scotland signifies Sion situated spear specimen struck Switzerland temple Tetradrachma tion town Tradatasa Tremissi Valais Vaud Veragri Vevey Wales word worship Zunz ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ השאיר
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Page 153 - Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
Page 115 - I know of no human composition so affecting as this, nor a history of deeper interest. These are the names and actions which ought not to perish, and to which we turn with a true and healthy tenderness...
Page 153 - They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Page 264 - This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know, that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Page 115 - gainst tears, and hers would crave The life she lived in; but the judge was just, And then she died on him she could not save. Their tomb was simple, and without a bust, And held within their urn one mind, one heart, one dust.
Page 201 - Et quibus immitis placatur sanguine diro Teutates, horrensque feris altaribus Hesus; Et Taranis scythicae non mitior ara Dianae.
Page 148 - The creatures that inhabit them are, in all respects, below humanity ; and most of them, especially women, have the tumidum guttur, which they call goscia. Mont Cenis, I confess, carries the permission* mountains have of being frightful rather too far ; and its horrors...
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Page 162 - ... extent by the conception of heroes. Whatever was too human in the ancient legends told of Zeus and Apollon was transferred to so-called halfgods or heroes, who were represented as the sons or favourites of the gods, and who bore their fate under a slightly altered name. The twofold character of Herakles as a god and as a hero is acknowledged even by Herodotus, and some of his epithets would have been sufficient to indicate his solar and originally divine character. But, in order to make some...