The architectural antiquities of Great Britain, represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each (1807)
Britton, John, 1771-1857 · London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme : J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library : and the author · leaf 38
racters of the houses of the Anglo-Saxons, or Anglo-Normans ; butwe believe that ecclesiastical structures engaged the chief attention of theirmen of science; as religious discipline and ceremony were the primarypursuits of civil society. A critical knowledge of any particular class ofantient… … ** Initial letter from a Saxon MS. of the Gregorian Gospels, Salisbury Cathedral. I 6 INTRODUCTION. instruction, if pursued with a single and undeviating determination toascertain truth: but when employed in the cause of theory, superstition, orany sectarian dogma, it is repugnant to reason, and…
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