Category: History - British
In a family that has been in all ages remarkably the friend of the muses, I think myself happy, that I have a particular claim. To You, my Lord, this dedication is devolv’d by hereditary right. Through Your father’s auspices and encouragement, I began and continued the work. H...
In a family that has been in all ages remarkably the friend of the muses, I think myself happy, that I have a particular claim. To You, my Lord, this dedication is devolv’d by h...
2. Part 2Here three things most evidently appear, 1. _Jehovah_ was that person in the deity, who appeared visibly and discoursed with the patriarchs, not the invisible supreme. 2. That _...
3. Part 3ROWLDRICH is a temple of the Druids of the first kind, a circular work which has been often taken notice of in print, lying in the north-west part of _Oxfordshire_: upon high gr...
4. Part 4In regard to the natural history of the stones, ’tis the same as that of _Stonehenge_, which is compos’d of the very same stones, fetch’d from the same _Marlborough-downs_, wher...
5. Part 5This cove of the northern temple was undoubtedly the _kibla_ thereof. It opens pretty exactly north-east, as at _Stonehenge_. It measures 34 foot, from the edge of the outer jam...
6. Part 6As to the stones that compos’d this avenue, they were of all shapes, sizes, and height that happen’d, altogether rude. Some we measur’d 6 feet thick, 16 in circumference. If of...
7. Part 7Concerning the forms of the religious performances here, I can say but little, more than that I see nothing, but what appears to be in the ancient patriarchal mode, before cover...
8. Part 8I bought a couple of _British_ beads, one large of a light blue and rib’d, the other less, of a dark blue, taken up in one of the two barrows on _Hakpen-hill_, east of _Kennet_...
9. Part 9This therefore shews the reason why they set their temples fronting the east, in all antiquity, and why the coves of our works look that way. As to the two temples at _Abury_, t...
10. Part 10All these put together, I take to be some good reasons (to omit several more for brevity’s sake) for the extraordinary veneration paid to this creature, from all antiquity. Our...
11. Part 11_Apollodorus_ I. 4. writes, that _Elios_, our _Phut_, married _Rhode_ daughter of _Neptune_, who was really _Tarshish_ son of _Javan_, son of _Japhet_. From her he denominated t...
12. Part 12A memorial of this knowledge which _Hercules_ had of letters, we find in _Hephæstion_ V. where he writes, “_Hercules_ gave the name of _Alpha_ to the first letter, in honour to...
13. Part 13You have this same action of the heroes represented in some _Tyrian_ coins: _Cadmus_ is throwing a stone at a serpent. That of _Gordian_ III. in _Vaillant_’s colony coins, vol....
14. Part 14Further, we must remove, in this kind of reasoning, all the imperfection of different sexes, as well as time, which is in human generations; and all such gross ideas incompatibl...
15. Part 15In the year 1725, the next year after I found out this _Humber_ temple, and the last year of my travels, I found another of these alate temples, on _Navestock-common_ in _Essex_...
16. Part 16- Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). - Text enclosed by equals is in blackletter (=blackletter=). - Blank pages have been removed. - Obvious typographical e...