The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14595744528)

Identifier: graphichistorica00brayuoft (find matches)
Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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r instances) fromold John Bunyans fiction of the Holy War, wherehe furnishes a specimen of such hero to each army.Profane is spy to Diabolus, and Prywell to the godlyparty in Mansoul; the latter being promoted to scout-master-generals dignity. For a last authority upon this subject, Milton maybe adduced as permitting the prosecution of this ad-venturous and envious office to none other but Satanin all the rebel host. Whatever may have been the estimation in whichrival armies held their opposite scouts, yet I thinktheir own side have not generalhj undervalued theircharacter on account of their occupation; and fromthe twelve rulers of Israel to the unfortunate MajorAndre, the unsuccessful spy has been oftener pitiedthan despised.—The purer principles of Christianityand the generous spirit of chivalry seem to have ba-nished the Spy, or degraded his office to the rank ofthe mercenary adventurer. J. A. G. ON THE STUDY OF ANTIQUITY. —No. III. RESTORED VIEW OF THE GREAT TEMPLE AT ABURY.*
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In addition to the pillar, the subject of the last paper,the inhabitants of Palestine had their altars of unhewnstone, their conical heaps of stones, and their circlesof stones, in common with the patriarchs ; but besidesthese, the Phoenician settlers in Britain had otherstructures of massy stones, not noticed in the sacredhistory of patriarchal times; of these are, the Crom-lech, the Logan-stone, and the Tolmen. The circlesof stone have their prototype in the Gilgal of Joshua;for we read, that, on the passing of the Israelites * The above representation has been partly composed from a restored model of the Temple at Abnry, and partly from a print in Brittons Beauties of Wiltshire, vol. iii. sect, xii., which is occupied by an elaborate account of this monument, VOL. I. through the river Jordan dry-shod, Joshua, theirleader, commanded that one man, of each tribe, shouldbring a stone from the bottom of the river; and thatthese stones should be pitched on the spot where theark was to re