...well-defined ideas of celebrated personages, but make us acquainted with the customs and habits of the time. To history they give a body and a substance,...things which language is deficient in describing. Comparatively speaking, we shall be able to ascertain less in the few centuries into which our enquiries...

...consequently signed to form a companion to the present they appear to have naturally a peculiarly volume. portraits we possess, of our kings, our princes, and...and a studier of effigies, would Sir Walter Scott have armed his Ivanhoe in a fashion, not known for more than two centuries after the victor at Ashby-de-la-Zouch...

...PORTRAITS WE POSSESS OF OUR KINGS, OUR PRINCES, AND THE HEROES OF AGES FAMED FOR CHIVALRY AND ARMS. TO HISTORY THEY GIVE A BODY AND A SUBSTANCE, BY PLACING...THINGS WHICH LANGUAGE IS DEFICIENT IN DESCRIBING." — CA STOTHARD " THE CHRISTIAN CANNOT LIVE IN THE PRESENT ONLY : HE BELONGS TO EIGHTEEN CENTURIES...

...celebrated persons, " but make us acquainted with the manners and customs of their times ; while " to history they give a body and a substance, by placing before us those things " which language, with all its power, is deficient in describing." Before speaking of the brasses in Herefordshire and...

...ideas of celebrated persons, but make us acquainted with the manners and customs of their times; while to history they give a body and a substance, by placing before us those things which language, with all its power, is deficient in describing. of Jltccnt JUrniiolojjical Jhiblications. THE HISTORY...