The streets of Ratisbon are generally picturesque, as well from their undulating forms, as from the antiquity of a great number of the houses.
The day continued most beautiful: and we sallied forth in high spirits, to gaze at and to admire every object of antiquity which should present itself.
Shanklin contains many bits of the picturesque old-time island--touches of antiquity quite wanting in Ventnor.
One hundred years ago it had a population of a thousand; in 1837, of ten thousand; and it is easy to see that the traces of antiquity in such a city must be few.
It is guarded carefully and the atmosphere of antiquityjealously preserved.
We look forward with satisfaction to a short pause in the pleasant old northern capital, whose splendid church and importance in ecclesiastical antiquity are rivalled only by Canterbury.
The road to Darlington is excellent, though sinuous, and we found in that bustling city little evidence of the antiquity vouched for by its twelfth century church.
The touch of antiquity so necessary to complete the charm is in the merest fragment of its castle, a mouldering bit of wall on a mound overlooking the rivers--dismantled "by Cromwell's orders.
If this be true, the chapel is twelve hundred years old and contests in antiquity with St. Augustine's of Canterbury.
We would have been glad to linger, if possible, but there was much to see in the old town which, in the words of Thomas Carlyle, "has the essence of all the antiquity in Scotland in good clean condition.
Still, there are many things of genuine interest and antiquity in Bakewell Church and the dissertations of our guide concerning them is worth the half crown we bestow upon him.
The cathedral of St. Mary's is even older than the castle, and though restored, many touches of antiquity still remain.
The house and church are located in a deep wooded valley and the towers of the ancient gateway lend a touch of much-needed antiquity to the scene.
VII A WEEK IN SOUTH WALES We leave Shrewsbury by the Welsh bridge for a week among the rugged hills and valleys of Southern Wales, a country rich in relics of antiquity and romantic associations.
Once inside our misgivings vanish instantly amidst the air of cleanliness, solid comfort and pleasant antiquity that prevails.
Legend has it that this was built by St. Flannan, who founded the original cathedral; and certain it is that its antiquity is very great.
Brecon boasts of great antiquity and it was here that Sir John Price made overtures to Henry VIII.
The enthusiasm of the French people had drawn so freely upon the heroes of antiquity for a parallel to him that Dr.
Since the Taconic Range affords us such an excellent example of a large-scale, well-understood folded range of great antiquity we may do well to consider it in the light of certain other broad relationships.
Rocks carrying remarkably similar fossils may really be several thousand years different in age; but this is, indeed, a very small limit of error when one considers the vast antiquity of the earth.
Some idea of the vast antiquity of the earth may be gleaned from the fact that this tremendously deep canyon has been produced by erosion in one of the most resistant of all known rocks in very late geologic time!
These fragments of antiquity included, among many other desirable things, the historical writings of Fabius Pictor, the predecessor of Livy.
Parish registers among the civilised peoples of antiquity do not greatly concern us.
He was too well seen in antiquity to commit such a gross mistake; there is not the least mention of chance in that whole passage, nor of the clinamen principiorum, so peculiar to Epicurus's hypothesis.
This piece of antiquity is imitated by Virgil with great judgment and discretion.
Far back in antiquity the Greeks of Asia Minor and the Ionian Islands gravitated towards the northern shores of the Pontus Euxinus, the fertile lands of Tauris--the present Crimea.
In antiquity the name Tauri, or Taurians, was restricted to the inhabitants of the mountainous south coast of the Crimea.
The badge may claim a greater antiquity and a wider use than armorial bearings.
It is needless to say that these words have neither practical value norantiquity to commend them.
Athenians borrowed this type from the Pelasgians, thus testifying to the greatantiquity of the phallic Hermes.
Night was venerated, both for her antiquityand power.
The Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, show an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature, than what we meet with in those of our own country.
Several of them have avowed their conviction of the genuineness and antiquity of these relics.
The mind is lost in astonishment, in looking back at such a vast antiquity of human beings.
Such, until recently, were the historic and scientific evidences with regard to the antiquity of man.
What was the date of these ages cannot at all be determined; the earlier are long before any recorded European annals, but there is no reason to believe that they approach in antiquity the Asiatic records and remains.
And this I suppose must be due to the antiquity of the instinct that, on the whole, directs us towards truth.
The antiquity of the Zendavesta has likewise been asserted by Rask, the great Danish linguist, who, according to Malcolm, brought back from the East fresh transcripts and additions to those published by Anquetil.
This fact alone (if it is allowed as authentic) sufficiently warrants the antiquity of those writings which M d'Anquetil has brought into Europe, and translated into French.
In their writings and conversation, the philosophers of antiquity asserted the independent dignity of reason; but they resigned their actions to the commands of law and of custom.
Jones, have called in question the antiquity of these books.
The geographers of antiquity have frequently hesitated to what portion of the globe they should ascribe Egypt.
The admirers of antiquity regret the loss of this public penance.
The senate of Rome, losing all connection with the Imperial court and the actual constitution, was left a venerable but useless monument of antiquity on the Capitoline hill.
See Mr. Macpher son's Dissertation on theAntiquity of Ossian's Poems, p.
We may rest contented with this decisive authority, without entering into the obscure disputes concerning the antiquity of the Runic characters.
Several of Roby's "Traditions of Lancashire" are of this class; others are of considerableantiquity and of historic interest.
These be the franchises that belonged to Robert Fitzwalter in London, in time of peace; which for the antiquity thereof I have noted out of an old record.
About the midst of this street is the Standard in Cheape, of what antiquity the first foundation I have not read.
The next is the Weavers' hall, which company hath been of great antiquity in this city, as appeareth by a charter of Henry II.
Next is the gaol or prison of the King's Bench, but of what antiquity the same is I know not.
This may suffice for proof of a wall, and form thereof, about this city, and the same to have been of great antiquity as any other within this realm.
This Tower and great place was so called of pertaining to the kings of this realm, but by whom the same was first built, or of what antiquity continued, I have not read more than that in the reign of Edward I.
The Sâṅkhya and Yoga are also related and represent two aspects of the same system which is of great antiquity and allied to Buddhism and Jainism.
Yet the Dravidian districts are ample in extent, their monuments are remarkable, their languages are cultivated, and Tamil literature possesses considerable interest, antiquity and originality.
A limiting date to the antiquity of Śivaism and Vishnuism, as their cults may be called, is furnished by Buddhist literature, at any rate for north-eastern India.
Some are of respectable antiquity but it is also clear that modern texts pass under ancient names.
Footnote 347: The inscriptions of Camboja and Champa seem to be the best proof of the antiquity of Linga worship.
If this be the case, it points to a considerable antiquity for the remains, because no such downfalls are known to have occurred since the cave was first explored by white men.
All these features give an appearance of antiquityto the ruin.
If nothing can be found here, denoting extreme antiquity of man, it would seem useless to make further search in central or western Kentucky.
The antiquity of these ponds is denoted by the amount of silt partially filling them, brought down from the mountains by erosion of the soil.
To accomplish this would require a long time; enough to produce a considerable alteration in the topography, and so to predicate for the bottom deposits in the cave an antiquity far beyond the possible appearance of man in the region.
Yet, the same conditions prevail in other places where a great antiquity is claimed for the remains.
While there may at times be good reason for doubting the claims made as to the antiquity of some London taverns, there can be none for questioning the ripe old age to which the Pope's Head in Cornhill attained.
Poetic license bestows upon another notable Southwark inn, the Bear at Bridge-foot, an antiquity far eclipsing that of the Tabard.
Antiquity believed in dreams, not only as means by which the Gods revealed their will, but as special favors accorded to fortunate men.
This ecstasy was in the case of almost all the oracles of antiquity brought on by inhaling certain gases which rose from the soil and produced often most fearful symptoms in the unfortunate persons employed for the purpose.
Here alsoantiquity is our first teacher, if we believe Pliny (Hist.
If we admit theantiquity of the book of Job, we see there the earliest known announcement of this connection.
Every thing we saw spoke of the past, of an antiquity without limit; everywhere our eyes rested on the handiwork of those who had been dead for ages, and we were in the midst of customs which they had bequeathed to their descendants.
And so far as the designations of Christ are concerned, the early chapters of the book have usually been thought to produce an impression of special antiquity and authenticity.
What happened there is obscure; antiquity has well observed the secrecy which was essential to the mysteries.
If according the best information from antiquity the vultures were directed to let themselves be impregnated by the wind, why should the same thing not have happened even once in a human female?
The aesthetic critic needs always to be on his guard against the confusion of mere curiosity or antiquity with beauty in art.
In the earliest notices about them, as we know, the people of Attica appear already impressed by the immense antiquity of their occupation of its soil, of which they claim to be the very first flower.
The sentiment of antiquity is indeed a characteristic of all cultivated people, even in what may seem the freshest ages, and not exclusively a humour of our later world.
In the Astragalizontes, for instance, well known to antiquity in countless reproductions, he had treated an incident of the every-day life of every age, which Plato sketches by the way.
