 Roman bricks and mortar have furnished inexhaustible materials for Saxon towns, Norman castles, and even for English farmhouses. The great number of the Roman villas whose remains can still be traced is a proof that the lords of the soil were in easy...  The Early and Middle Ages of England - Page 26by Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 472 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1867 - 706 pages
...the last thirty years, attest alike the art of their thieves and of their smiths.1 Roman bricks and mortar have furnished inexhaustible materials for...or stone foundation, is an argument against large fortunes.1 Probably no rich man would have chosen to spend his life so far from Rome, and under a British... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1867 - 732 pages
...their smiths.1 Roman bricks and mortar have furnished inexhaustible materials for Saxon towns, Xorman castles, and even for English farm-houses. The great...or stone foundation, is an argument against large fortunes.1 Probably no rich man would have chosen to spend his life so far from Rome, and under a British... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1867 - 718 pages
...Saxon towns, Norman castles, 1 Roach Smith's Antiquities of Richborough, p. 102. 52 ROMAN HOLDINGS. and even for English farm-houses. The great number...or stone foundation, is an argument against large fortunes.1 Probably no rich man would have chosen to spend his life so far from Rome, and under a British... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1881 - 368 pages
...the last thirty years, attest alike the art of their thieves and of their smiths. Roman bricks and mortar have furnished inexhaustible materials for...or stone foundation, is an argument against large fortunes. Probably no rich man would have chosen to spend his life so far from Rome, and under a "British... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - 460 pages
...the last thirty years, attest alike the art of their thieves and of their smiths. Roman bricks and mortar have furnished inexhaustible materials for...or stone foundation, is an argument against large fortunes. Probably no rich man would have chosen to spend bis life so far from Rome, and under a British... | |
 | Henry de Beltgens Gibbins - 1896 - 582 pages
...by hot-water pipes.3 Nor did the land offer a chance of making great wealth. " The great number of villas whose remains can still be traced is a proof...or stone foundation, is an argument against large fortunes."4 The surface of the country, too, was still wild and unreclaimed in many parts, and not... | |
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