Bristol, Bath & Malmesbury: With a Short Account of Bradford-on-Avon, Volume 1 |
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Page 35 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Page 35 - And shall Trelawney die, and shall Trelawney die? Then thirty thousand Cornish boys will know the reason why.
Page 184 - Anne, George I, George II, George III, George IV, William IV, and Ferdinand — king consort of Portugal.
Page 34 - Chemistry, a book which is so well known that it is hardly necessary to do more than note the appearance of this new and improved edition. It seems, however, desirable to point out that feature of the book which, in all probability, has made it so popular.
Page 150 - Could laugh and say, That they on the field Of stern command Better workmen were, In the conflict of banners, The clash of spears, The meeting of heroes, And the rustling of weapons, Which they on the field Of slaughter played With the sons of Edward. The Northmen...
Page 100 - ... of Wells; but it waited its final grandeur and glory from Bishop Oliver King, who while visiting Bath in 1499 saw in a dream angels ascending and descending by a ladder set between the throne of God and an olivetree, wearing a crown, and heard a voice saying, " Let an Olive establish the crown, and a King restore the church.
Page 45 - ... in the grotesque and often highly indelicate carvings in which one body satirized the other. It is difficult to understand how the representation of such coarse buffoonery, and even of the most scandalous subjects, could be permitted by those, usually ecclesiastics of high position, who controlled church decoration; and it is more surprising that it should be found at a time when the most ardent admirers of medievalism, in all its forms, insist that the most exemplary religious and pious impulse...
Page 6 - I have encouraged the authors to write as fully as space permits of the men who raised the great structures and of those whose energy and enterprise brought about the successive remodellings and reconstructions which have left to the present age these inspiring works of what I do not hesitate to call the noblest and most all-embracing forms of art. The men and women whose monuments or unmarked burial-places are in the cathedrals have, as far as possible, been presented as human beings. While the...
Page 34 - Butler expressed his opinion that any claim to the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit was "a horrid thing, a very horrid thing, sir.
Page 103 - Hospital, a national institution for poor patients under treatment with the waters, and to the S. is the United Hospital, used by local patients. The Abbey Church (PI. C, 3) is a handsome Perp. edifice of the 16th cent., sometimes called the 'Lantern of England' from the number and size of its windows.