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The superintendent motioned his visitor to sit by him and then opened the papers out on his desk. "Not so much," he answered. "Three five-pound notes I've proved that they're those which poor Kitely got at the bank yesterday. A number of letters chiefly about old books, antiquarian matters, and so forth some scraps of newspaper cuttings, of the same nature.
He was a tolerable, and at least an enthusiastic antiquarian, a more than tolerable poetaster; and he had a prodigious budget full of old ballads and songs, which he loved better to teach and I to learn, than all the 'Latin, Greek, geography, astronomy, and the use of the globes, which my poor father had so sedulously bargained for."
One could not at first see what this novelty meant; it had the air of mere antiquarian emotion like Wenlock Abbey and Pteraspis; but it expelled archaic law and antiquarianism once for all, without seeming conscious of it; and Adams drifted back to Washington with a new sense of history.
There were numerous booths and tents in all directions, and swings and roundabouts, targets for archery, courses marked off for running races, arrangements for the old game of quintain, for Sir Ralph was somewhat of an antiquarian, and wished to re-introduce it. There were three bands of music, the best stationed near the house, and the others at, a sufficient distance not to interfere with it.
Walter Harte in his Essays on Husbandry says that Cato writes like an English squire and Varro like a French academician. This is just comment on Cato but it is at once too much and too little to say of Varro: a French academician might be proud of his antiquarian learning, but would balk at his awkward and homely Latin, as indeed one French academician, M. Boissier, has since done.
President of the Woolwich Antiquarian Society. Comprising Woolwich, Plumstead, Charlton, Shooters' Hill, Westcombe Park, Eltham, Abbey Wood, Belvedere, Erith, and Bexley.
We have IIId Dynasty Egyptian vases from Knossos, which were certainly not imported in later days, for no ancient nation had antiquarian tastes till the time of the Saïtes in Egypt and of the Romans still later.
Johnson, who are master of the English language, but try your hand upon a part of it. JOHNSON. 'Sir, you could not read it without the pleasure of verse . We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. 'All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages.
He endeavoured to lead the House to believe that my hon. and learned Friend was going into some antiquarian researches about the policy of the English or the Indian Government twenty years ago, and that it was proposed to have a Committee to dig up all the particulars of our supposed peril from the designs of Russia at that time.
But an attack in flank, I find the sudden posing of a question upon some minor antiquarian theme usually can be counted upon, as in this instance, to draw him outside the Roman lines.
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