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And it ought not to be omitted that Macaulay was practically the first historian who not merely examined the literature of his subject with unfailing care and attention, but took the trouble to inspect the actual places with the zeal of a topographer or an antiquary.
Dickens is as accurate as a topographer in his description of the villa, as looked down on from Fiesole. How often ah, how often! have I looked down from that same dwarf wall over the matchless view where Florence shows the wealth of villas that Ariosto declares made it equivalent to two Romes! Dickens was only thirty-three when I first saw him, being just two years my junior.
Powell distinguishes three in the field covered by his report. It is worth remarking that in the west the geologist precedes or accompanies the topographer, and accordingly has an opportunity to name the regions according to real peculiarities rather than chance suggestions. The future map will be significant of the past history as well as of the ocular features of the landscape. Mr.
But besides this they hold a service in his honour on the eighth of all the other months, either because it was on the eighth day of Hekatombeion that he first arrived in Athens from Troezen, as is related by Diodorus the topographer, or else thinking that number to be especially his own, because he is said to have been the son of Poseidon, and Poseidon is honoured on the eighth day of every month.
Si la gloria humana no es sueño, Gorostiza alcanzóla ese día, recibiendo sus palmas en el respeto y la admiración de sus adversarios. Cf. Justin Smith thus characterizes him: "a witty, agreeable man of the world, Mexican by birth, Spanish by education, the author of some clever dramas, but not professionally a topographer, a lawyer or even a diplomat."
The person who sold me the picture said they would spend the change in candles for St. Patrick's altar. So St. Patrick is still alive. The Lost Things I never remember an historian yet, nor a topographer either, who could tell me, or even pretend to explain by a theory, how it was that certain things of the past utterly and entirely disappear.
But in the half-mile, over which it may be said to extend, we find all sorts and conditions of people from the Right Honorable Lord Comandine down to the present topographer; who being of no rank as it were, has the fortune to be treated on almost friendly footing by all, from his lordship down to the tradesman. We must begin our little descriptions where they say charity should begin at home.
The literary execution of the work, moreover, is highly respectable, sometimes even rich and picturesque; and the author describes the grand and beautiful scenery of the Cordilleras with a sensibility to its charms, not often found in the tasteless topographer, still less often in the rude Conqueror. Cieza de Leon came to the New World, as he informs us, at the early age of thirteen.
"Ah! ah!" cried D'Artagnan, "you are of the household of M. Fouquet, then, Porthos?" "I! what do you mean by that?" said the topographer, blushing to the top of his ears. "Why, you say the house, when speaking of Belle-Isle, as if you were speaking of the chateau of Pierrefonds." Porthos bit his lip. "Belle-Isle, my friend," said he, "belongs to M. Fouquet, does it not?" "Yes, I believe so."
Few places in the West of England have greater claims upon the topographer and historian than the church of St. Mary's, Redcliffe. Its antiquity, the beauty of its architecture, and above all the interesting circumstances connected with its history, entitle it to peculiar notice.
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