Southern Europe as anantiquarian subject; or if treated aesthetically, simply as a subject adapted to the ludicrous.
And why is it that, except as regards Egypt, where there happens to lurk a secret political object in reversion for France, German literature builds its historic or antiquarian researches almost exclusively upon English travellers?
His legal knowledge and antiquarian taste added their own charm to whatever she undertook.
Like Horace, but with even better reason, he bewails the antiquarian predilections of the majority of readers.
Antiquarian research was carried on during this period with much zeal.
He composed a vast number of extremely erudite treatises, being well versed in the Latin tongue as well as in every kind of antiquarian knowledge; he will, however, contribute much more to science than to oratory.
It certainly is not applicable to the entire treatise, which was a genuine history on the same scale as that of Thucydides, and no mere piece of antiquarian research.
Examine in all its bearings the antiquarian enthusiasm of Virgil.
Nevertheless, he remained cheerful, and to all appearance contented, and charmed those who knew him by the vigour of his conversation and his varied antiquarian lore.
No loftier conception could guide his verse through the long labyrinth of legend, history, religious and antiquarian lore, in which for ten years of patient study his muse sought inspiration.
It was rather the antiquarian prepossessions of such men as Virgil, Maecenas, and Augustus, that caused him so earnestly to combat the love of all that was old.
It was given wholly to the cultivation of his art, except in so far as he was taken up with scientific and antiquarian studies, which he felt to be effectual in elevating his thought and deepening his grasp of a great subject.
Moreover, much of what we have is rendered useless, except for antiquarian purposes, by the extremely crude notions of etymology displayed.
We hear of him occasionally in Cicero's letters as studying in his country seats at Tusculum, Cumae, or Casinum, indifferent to politics, and preparing those great works of antiquarian research which have immortalised his name.
Noctes Atticae, in twenty books, a pleasant, gossiping work, written to occupy the leisure of his sons, and containing a vast amount of interesting details on literature and religious or antiquarian lore.
As, however, it is important from a literary, and still more from an antiquarian point of view, we add a short analysis of its contents.
Latin is a difficult tongue, because of its concise expression," I remarked, to avoid contradicting my antiquarian friend outright; and I stepped further away to see the statue better.
Silvestro, a statue of Semo Sancus and a pedestal inscribed with his name should have appeared in the antiquarian market of the city.
Giles, in Bohn's Antiquarian Library; and the excellent memoir of Domenico Tesoroni, King Ceadwalla's Tomb in the Ancient Basilica of S.
To the antiquarian and the archaeologist there is an unlimited field for exploration that has only been touched thus far.
London and devoted himself to antiquarian studies, for which he had already acquired a taste.
It is a council of clans, not to consult on the best means of advancing historical research; of promoting antiquarian knowledge; and of cultivating polite literature.
Shall we neglect him, and his antiquarian vestiges, to run after foreign sources of intellectual study?
These, and analogous remains, are the objects of our antiquarian researches.
All beyond this, is a field of antiquarian inquiry.
The depredations of nature lovers who uproot shrubbery and rend such flowering trees as dogwood are as nothing when an amateur antiquarian finds an early 18th century house unoccupied.
The Antiquarian Museum contains an excellent collection, including remains from a prehistoric village of the marshes, discovered in 1892, and consisting of sixty mounds within a space of five acres.
The rarer the specimen the greater may be its technical and antiquarian interest.
Some portions of the extensive old castle date from the 12th century, and the Gottesacker church contains interesting antiquarian relics.
The Zürich Antiquarian Society has published nearly three score of Hadloub's poems.
Let us, however, despite of Diodorus, establish the veracity of the antiquarian Hecataeus.
A series of articles written under this head, in the columns of the Dublin Penny Journal, by Mr. Pebrie, antiquarian high-priest to the Royal Irish Academy!
The antiquarianluminaries of the Royal Irish Academy would fain make out that this was a Christian warrior.
Had the antiquarian high-priest to this magnanimous assemblage been equally modest in former cases, and courted instruction, instead of erecting himself into a Pheelea, he would not cut the figure which he now does.
Within the narrow limits of two Irish acres, are here condensed more religious ruins, of antiquarian value, than are to be found, perhaps, in a similar space in any other quarter of the habitable world.
Betham told me of the fire-towers being Phalluses last night at the Antiquarian Society.
Suffice it to add that he fell a victim to the intense ardour with which he pursued the antiquarian researches that he loved.
When the custom of escuage arose is a matter which no antiquarian researches have settled.
He tempts an antiquarian in the neighbourhood with the sight of a beautiful amphora, and then obliges him to give in payment for it a written certification that the sword had undoubtedly belonged to Charlemagne.
With its administration of justice, its censorship, and its guilds, Germany will soon be the antiquarian museum of Europe.
It is seldom that the antiquarianand the philosopher are so happily blended.
Footnote 28: As a great number of medals of Carausius are still preserved, he is become a very favorite object of antiquarian curiosity, and every circumstance of his life and actions has been investigated with sagacious accuracy.
Le Plongeon discovered a fragment of a stone slab in the ancient Maya city of Mayapan, of which he published a description in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society.
Member of the American Philosophical Society; the American | Antiquarian Society; the Numismatic and Antiquarian | Society of Phila.
Cited in Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1886.
It was an age when in Rome antiquarianlearning abounded.
The noble tower, with its gracefully tapering spire, second in height only to that of Salisbury, the flying buttresses, and the circular chapels at the east end, are objects of interest to the attentive antiquarian observer.
Artistic and Antiquarian Subjects of every kind for book and other Illustrations accurately drawn and lithographed, in the best way only.
He was, in the early part of his life, an artist of no mean pretension; and was esteemed an antiquarian and numismatist of considerable knowledge and research.
As this tradition agrees very well with a number of facts brought to light by antiquarian and philological researches, it has had considerable influence in shaping the conclusions even of those who are not professed believers in it.
The second of the two books contains somewhat less antiquarian research, but more practical information than the first.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antiquarian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
