 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1823 - 524 páginas
...well-defined ideas of celebrated personages, but make us acquainted with the customs and habits of the time. To history they give a body and a substance,...things which language is deficient in describing. Comparatively speaking, we shall be able to ascertain less in the few centuries into which our enquiries... | |
 | Charles Boutell - 1847 - 324 páginas
...consequently signed to form a companion to the present they appear to have naturally a peculiarly volume. portraits we possess, of our kings, our princes, and...and a studier of effigies, would Sir Walter Scott have armed his Ivanhoe in a fashion, not known for more than two centuries after the victor at Ashby-de-la-Zouch... | |
 | Mrs. Maria Farquhar Halliday - 1882 - 128 páginas
...PORTRAITS WE POSSESS OF OUR KINGS, OUR PRINCES, AND THE HEROES OF AGES FAMED FOR CHIVALRY AND ARMS. TO HISTORY THEY GIVE A BODY AND A SUBSTANCE, BY PLACING...THINGS WHICH LANGUAGE IS DEFICIENT IN DESCRIBING." — CA STOTHARD " THE CHRISTIAN CANNOT LIVE IN THE PRESENT ONLY : HE BELONGS TO EIGHTEEN CENTURIES... | |
 | Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society - 1886 - 388 páginas
...celebrated persons, " but make us acquainted with the manners and customs of their times ; while " to history they give a body and a substance, by placing before us those things " which language, with all its power, is deficient in describing." Before speaking of the brasses in Herefordshire and... | |
 | Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society - 1876 - 688 páginas
...ideas of celebrated persons, but make us acquainted with the manners and customs of their times; while to history they give a body and a substance, by placing before us those things which language, with all its power, is deficient in describing. of Jltccnt JUrniiolojjical Jhiblications. THE HISTORY... | |
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... to history they give a body and a substance by placing before us those things which language with all its power is deficient in describing. 