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Page 102 - Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, ' If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 39 - ... and in the other a bag of papers. At his feet sit his daughters (?) weeping ; the one with a sand-glass in her hand, and the other with a skull. These figures are under an arched canopy supported by wreathed columns, at the bases of which are two flaming urns, and against their capitals two cherubim with folded wings ; over and under which are hanging wreaths of flowers. On the base of the monument, between the emblems of Justice (the sword and balance), is the following inscription : " Here...
Page 34 - Scheme stands as follows : — A. Fortresses partly inaccessible by reason of precipices, cliffs, or water, defended in part only by artificial works. B. Fortresses on hill-tops with artificial defences, following the natural line of the hill.
Page 18 - Did she look to Camelot. And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of Shalott. Lying, robed in snowy white That loosely flew to left and right The leaves upon her falling light Thro...
Page 96 - Priory is lo find n secular parochial chaplain, or if necessary one of their own canons with cure of souls and to minister to the parishioners, for a quarter, or one half of the year at most. One of the canons shall also celebrate daily a mass for the dead in the choir of the Priory, in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin, and of SS. Peter and Paul and S. James, under the campanile, for the soul of Philippa the late queen, for the good estate of the Bp., and for his soul and for the souls of his parents...
Page 91 - S.AV. of the centre of Mound LXXVIII, 1904. A somewhat similar knife-handle, found in a crannog at Buston, is figured in Munro's Scottish Lake Dwellings, p. 220, fig. 222. H 291. Weaving-comb of concavo-convex cross-section, composed of antler : figured in Plate VIII. It belongs to Type 4 — the commonest type — of the classification in Proceedings, Som. Arch. Soc., XLVIII, pt. ii. It originally had nine teeth, the two outer ones being now deficient ; at the other end it has a circular perforation...
Page 114 - August 28th, 1904, was a remarkably able and energetic man, whpse talents were largely devoted to the promotion of the best interests of the city in which he was born and in which he lived. When our Society met in Bath, in 1895, Mr. King read a short but admirable paper on " The Municipal Records of Bath...
Page 34 - It is in a very strong position, being surrounded on the north, west, and southwest by a deep valley ; the eastern side, which is the only accessible point, is connected with an outlying branch of the Mendip Range.
Page 70 - If ins. long, and each having three transverse circular holes through the bone on the flat sides. They are both figured in Plate VII. Perhaps used in weaving ; a lady who has seen them states that she has observed similar objects of bone used by weavers in the North of England, but she could not explain their precise purpose. Both found in the peat SE of Mound LIV, 1904. A similar object with four holes, from Hod Hill, Dorset, is in the British Museum (Durden Coll :). E197.
Page 62 - The ridges and circles are not spaces of undisturbed ground left between the pits, but simply heaps of ejectamcnta thrown back and rendered more or less uniform in appearance by age and silting. The sides of the original excavations discovered in the section were also found to be perfectly upright, and even undercut in some places, so that they could not have stood for a couple of days in this soil, if the holes had not been quickly filled up by earth cast back from fresh excavations " From first...

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