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Example sentences for "antiquarianism"

Lexicographically close words:
antipope; antipyretic; antiqua; antiquae; antiquarian; antiquarians; antiquaries; antiquary; antiquated; antique
  1. For surely it is the height of pedantry and antiquarianism to argue that, because a land was never numbered among the subject provinces of Venice, it therefore may not be numbered among the equal members of a free Italian kingdom.

  2. But it would seem that even pedantry and antiquarianism are welcomed when they tell on behalf of the other side.

  3. If antiquarianism pored, genius too meditated in this sublime industry.

  4. The stranger was Sir Walter Scott, and "Queenhoo-hall" was the origin of that glorious series of romances where antiquarianism has taken the shape of imagination.

  5. When antiquarianism is leading to such fruitful results, and the study of ancient religion is so earnestly pursued, the aid of Varro's research would be invaluable.

  6. It was only when men of imagination and of elegant tastes were enlisted in such pursuits that the dry stick of antiquarianism put forth blossoms.

  7. It shows by what process antiquarianism became poetry.

  8. Christopher are his, and in these, his earliest remaining works, we already see the result of pedantic antiquarianism combined with his extraordinary individuality.

  9. In this we see that Mantegna's antiquarianism was not simply a youthful phase, but lasted till the very end of his career.

  10. A good deal of pseudo-antiquarianism has been expressed relative to the name of a little moorland parish two and a half miles uphill from Okehampton.

  11. The author, however, was unhappily ignorant of prehistoric archæology, and allowed himself to be led astray by the false antiquarianism that had marked the early writers.

  12. Yet even the divinised dog or ibis could find skilful, if not convinced, defenders among the Greek eclectics, who lent all the forces of Hellenic ingenuity to the cause of antiquarianism in religion.

  13. Quintus Scaevola and Varro applied all the forces of subtle antiquarianism and reverence to sustain the ancestral faith.

  14. An amusing example this of the egregious nonsense that was regarded as antiquarianism at the beginning of this century.


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