Archaeologia Cambrensis

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W. Pickering, 1866

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191 ページ - An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Variation of the Magnetical Needle, &c. By Zachariah Williams. London, printed for Dodsley, 1755.
192 ページ - ... several huge stones, like enormous boulders, placed endways perpendicularly on the soil, while some of them yet upheld similar masses laid transversely over their summit. They were arranged in a curve, once forming part, it would appear, of a large circle, and many other like fragments lay rolled on the ground at a moderate distance; the number of those still upright was, to speak by memory, eight or nine. Two, at about ten or twelve feet apart one from the other, and resembling huge gate-posts,...
192 ページ - ... yet bore their horizontal lintel, a long block laid across them ; a few were deprived of their upper traverse, the rest supported each its head-piece in defiance of time and of the more destructive efforts of man. So nicely balanced did one of these cross-bars appear, that in hope it might prove a rocking-stone, I guided my camel right under it, and then stretching up my riding-stick at arm's-length could just manage to touch and push it, but it did not stir.
406 ページ - Invites them forth to labour in the sun ; Some lead their youth abroad, while some condense Their liquid store, and some in cells dispense ; Some at the gate stand ready to receive The golden burden, and their friends relieve; All, with united force, combine to drive The lazy drones from the laborious hive. With envy stung, they view each other's deeds ; The fragrant work with diligence proceeds. " Thrice happy you, whose walls already rise...
478 ページ - Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
335 ページ - Willielmum remisisse relaxasse et omnino pro me et heredibus meis imperpetuum quietum clamasse...
484 ページ - Lady ELIZABETH by the grace of GOD QUENE OF ENGLAND FRAUNCE and IRELAND Defender of the Fayth &c 1600. " (Signed) WILLM. CAMDEN, Clarencieux Kinge of Armes.
367 ページ - And though of no very difficult construction, the gentleman seemed wholly confounded, and unable to explain them; till Mr. Johnson, having picked out the meaning by little and little, said to the man, "Heb is a preposition, I believe, sir, is it not?" My countryman recovering some spirits upon the sudden question, cried out, "So I humbly presume, sir,
380 ページ - The man of science should go on honestly, patiently, diffidently, observing and storing up his observations, and carrying his reasonings unflinchingly to their legitimate conclusions, convinced that It would be treason to the majesty at once of science and of religion, if he sought to help either by swerving ever so little from the straight line of truth.
192 ページ - Bass; other villages and hamlets too were thickly scattered over the landscape. All along the ridge where we stood, and visible at various distances down the level, rose the tall circular watch-towers of Kaseem. But immediately before us stood a more remarkable monument, one that fixed the attention and wonder even of our Arab companions themselves. For hardly had we descended the narrow path where it winds from ledge to ledge down to the bottom, when we saw before us several huge stones, like enormous...

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