Vulgar Errors, Ancient and Modern, Attributed as Imports to the Proper Names of the Globe ... Investigating the Origin and Uses of Letters ...: Biblical Long-lost Names--unknown Names of Heathen Gods, of Nations, Provinces, Towns &c. With a Critical Disquisition on Every Station of Richard of Cirencester and Antoninus in Britain ... To which is Added, Richard's Original WorkG. Dyer, 1816 - 230 páginas |
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... ) Caermarthen , ( 81 ) Leicester , ( 32 ) Canterbury , ( 33 ) Dorchester , ( 34 ) Exeter , ( 35 ) Roe , or Riechester , ( 36 ) Silchester , ( 37 ) Rochester . D DIAPHRAGMATA . ITER . I. A Rbutupi Ducta eft via 33 PART III. ...
... ) Caermarthen , ( 81 ) Leicester , ( 32 ) Canterbury , ( 33 ) Dorchester , ( 34 ) Exeter , ( 35 ) Roe , or Riechester , ( 36 ) Silchester , ( 37 ) Rochester . D DIAPHRAGMATA . ITER . I. A Rbutupi Ducta eft via 33 PART III. ...
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... Iter . 2d inverted . From Richborough to Caer - Segont by the Watling - fireet . Ant . Durolevum 16 . Ant ... Iter . 3 inverted from Durobrivis 27 London to Londinium .. Iter . 2d inverted . Sulo Mago , M. P. 9 Sulloniacis ...... 12 ...
... Iter . 2d inverted . From Richborough to Caer - Segont by the Watling - fireet . Ant . Durolevum 16 . Ant ... Iter . 3 inverted from Durobrivis 27 London to Londinium .. Iter . 2d inverted . Sulo Mago , M. P. 9 Sulloniacis ...... 12 ...
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... Iter is traceable on the Watling - street . From Richborough we follow it to Canterbury , whence it ran with the present road to Rochester , leaving the station at Judde- Hill in Ofpringe on the left . It paffed the Medway at Ro ...
... Iter is traceable on the Watling - street . From Richborough we follow it to Canterbury , whence it ran with the present road to Rochester , leaving the station at Judde- Hill in Ofpringe on the left . It paffed the Medway at Ro ...
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... Iter . Pennocrucio is further ftated by authors to be on the Penk , from which they suppose it took its name . - The word Pen is head : Cruc may come from Criocb , an end or territory . Near High - gate we have Cruc - End , in which End ...
... Iter . Pennocrucio is further ftated by authors to be on the Penk , from which they suppose it took its name . - The word Pen is head : Cruc may come from Criocb , an end or territory . Near High - gate we have Cruc - End , in which End ...
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... , the bill or bead land . From this it is eafily feen that neither of these names came from the other ; and that their imports are totally unlike . 5 See Lhuyd's Archæologią . I here close my comment on this long Iter , 56.
... , the bill or bead land . From this it is eafily feen that neither of these names came from the other ; and that their imports are totally unlike . 5 See Lhuyd's Archæologią . I here close my comment on this long Iter , 56.
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Ægypte affert alfo alſo ancient anſwer Antonine appellations authors becauſe Belga Bibracte Bibroci border land Bremenium Brigantes Brittania called camp Celts changes Cumari derived deſcribed diminutive diſtance Durnovaria Eboracum etymons faid fays fea bead features of nature feems fhall fhew fhewn fignifications firft firſt fituation fome fometimes ftated ftream fubject fuch fuppofed fyllable fynonymous Gaelic hæc hath head land Hebrew Hembury hence hiftory houſe imply the water incloſed inftances infulæ iſland Iter lake letter little fea Londinium means border means head means the fame means the fea Menapii miles Moridunum moſt muft muſt old names plain Plutarch poftfixes prefix preſent pronounced Ptolemy quæ reaſon rendered Richard ridge river road Roman Romani roots ſaid Saxons ſays ſea ſeems Segontiaci ſhould Spurn Head ſtated ſtation ſuppoſed territory thefe theſe names thoſe town tranflated ufque underſtood uſed Venta vero water border water head word written
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Página 7 - He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape, or magnitude, but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again; but having too many objects to learn at once, he forgot many of them : and (as he said) at first he learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day.
Página 6 - ... a glass of broken jelly, where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci; wherefore the shape of an object in such a case cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may.
Página 8 - And now being lately couched of his other eye, he says, that objects at first appeared large to this eye, but not so large as they did at first to the other ; and looking upon the same object with both eyes, he thought it looked about twice as large as with the first couched eye only, but not double that we can any way discover.
Página 7 - ... could look bigger. Before he was couched, he expected little advantage from seeing, worth...
Página 8 - Before he was couched, he expected little advantage from seeing, worth undergoing an operation for, except reading and writing; for he said, he thought he could have no more pleasure in walking abroad than he had in the garden, which he could do safely and readily.
Página 8 - A year after first seeing, being carried upon Epsom Downs, and observing a large prospect, he was exceedingly delighted with it, and called it a new kind of seeing.
Página 8 - But his gratitude to his operator he could not conceal, never seeing him for some time without tears of joy in his eyes, and other marks of affection ; and, if he did not happen to come at any time when he was expected, he would be so grieved that he could not forbear crying at his disappointment.
Página 7 - One particular only (though it may appear trifling) I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat, and which the dog, he was...
Página 7 - We thought he foon knew what pictures reprefented, which were fhewed to him; but we found afterwards we were miftaken ; for, about two months after he was couched, he difcovered at once, they reprefented folid bodies, when to that time he...
Página 8 - And even blindnefs he obferved, had this advantage, that he could go any where hi the dark much better than thofe who can fee; and after he had feen, he did not foon lofe this quality,, nor defire a light to go about the houfe in the night. He faid every new object was a new delight, and the...