Catalogue of the museum of London antiquities collected by, and the property of, Charles Roach Smith

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Pagina 139 - And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, " If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
Pagina 121 - And in Mason's Handful of Essaies, 1621, we find a similar thought — "like a swine, he never doth good till his death : as an apprentice's box of earth, apt he is to take all, but to restore none till hee be broken.
Pagina 135 - Charter was written, is evident enough, the character of the writing being that of the latter part of the twelfth or the beginning of the thirteenth century.
Pagina 76 - ... graphiarium haec tibi erunt armata suo graphiaria ferro: si puero dones, non leve munus erit.
Pagina 18 - Publications de la Société pour la recherche et la conservation des monuments historiques dans le grand-duché de Luxembourg, constituée sous le patronage de SM le roi grandduc , par arrêté , daté de ffalferdange , du 2 sept.
Pagina 121 - In a Mass of the Microcosme, or a Morall Description of Man. newly compiled into Essays by H. (Humphrey) Browne, 1642, speaking of "a covetous wretch...
Pagina 159 - Her aged body in sweet flames to death, Out of her cinders a new bird hath breath, In whom the beauties of the first return ; From spicy ashes of the sacred...
Pagina 121 - Thrift-boxes ; small and wide bottles with imitation stoppers, from three to four inches in height, of thin clay, the upper part covered with a green glaze. On the side is a slit for the introduction of money.
Pagina 177 - ... that purpose. Next on the same south side, toward the east, is a large water-gate, for receipt of boats and small vessels, partly under a stone bridge from the river of Thames. Beyond it is a small postern, with a drawbridge, seldom let down but for the receipt of some great persons, prisoners. Then towards the east is a great and strong gate, commonly called the Iron gate, but not usually opened.
Pagina 121 - Thrift-Boxes", and were doubtless of early origin; for we find analogous objects of the Roman period. See Caylus, Recueil d' Antiquites, tom, iv, pl. LIU, figs. 3, 4, p. 157. In . Brand's Popular Antiquities, they are thus referred to : — " In the illustration to the cut in the English Usurer, 1634, the author, speaking of the usurer and swine, says : — ' Both with the Christmas boxe may well comply : It nothing yields till broke.

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