The Archaeological Magazine of Bristol, Bath, South-Wales, and the South-western Counties, Volume 1Cunningham & Mortimer, 1843 |
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Pagina 74 - The two great rules for design are these : 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building.
Pagina 88 - The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
Pagina 76 - On one side of the house machicolated parapets, embrasures, bastions, and all the show of strong defence, and round the corner of the building a conservatory leading to the principal rooms, through which a whole company of horsemen might penetrate at one smash into the heart of the mansion ! - for who would hammer against nailed portals when he could kick his way through the greenhouse ?' are summed up in the two principles of Gothic or Christian architecture which he delivered to the world.
Pagina 114 - Basil noteth*: manifest notwithstanding it is, that the very majesty and holiness of the place where God is worshipped hath, in regard of us, great virtue, force, and efficacy, for that it serveth as a sensible help to stir up devotion, and in that respect no doubt bettereth even our holiest and best actions in this kind.
Pagina 118 - affords much matter for consideration. He shows that the tradition respecting the appropriation of the days to particular saints was considered by the common people as eminently Protestant, that is to say,. as a part and parcel of the Church of England ; and that an almanac without Saints for every day was nought. We have neither space nor leisure to pursue this inquiry : but we do earnestly wish that some one well versed in ecclesiastical history, for instance Mr. Palmer, would investigate the...
Pagina 117 - Book looking toward the east, or upper end of the chancel. And very reasonable was this usage ; for when the people were spoken to, it was fit to look towards them ; but when God was spoken to, it was fit to turn from the people.
Pagina 117 - ... passes, a perpetual memorial of the Head of the Church. "The principle upon which certain festivals of Devotion still retained in the kalendar prefixed to the Common Prayer, and usually printed in italics, were selected from among the rest, is more obscure. Many of them evidently indicate names which had been peculiarly honoured of old in the Church of England : St. Alban, the proto-martyr of Britain...
Pagina 62 - I to the Church the living call, and to the grave do summon all, AR 1728.
Pagina 73 - The contemporary poem thus describes the exploit : — " Sir Alexander Giffard escaped with the gold and silver which was delivered to him. He got the horses together and loaded them, and took the road towards the city of Damont.