Memorabilia; or, Recollections, Historical, Biographical and Antiquarian

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Author

Savage, James, 1767-1845

Title

Memorabilia; Or Recollections, Historical, Biographical, and Antiquarian

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Taunton,1820.

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Charlene Taylor, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Savage, James, 1767-1845

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Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67755

Release Date

April 1, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MEMORABILIA.
2. 2.ADVERTISEMENT.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.Dr. KENNICOTT.
5. 5.REMARKABLE HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES.
6. 6.CHARLES XII. OF SWEDEN.
7. 7.BRITISH PEARLS.
8. 8.PILLARS OF COMMEMORATION.
9. 9.MASON THE POET.
10. 10.BISHOPS OF SODOR AND MAN.
11. 11.THE TABLE.
12. 12.CLOCKS.
13. 13.ALDUS MANUTIUS. [DIED 1516.]
14. 14.BOTTLES OF SKIN.
15. 15.ENGLISH SLAVE TRADE.
16. 16.OLIVER CROMWELL’S WIFE.
17. 17.SHAKESPEARE.
18. 18.UNIVERSITY DEGREES.
19. 19.GUY CARLETON, LORD DORCHESTER.
20. 20.FIGS.
21. 21.FRUITS, CULTIVATED AT ROME IN THE TIME OF PLINY, THAT ARE NOW GROWN IN OUR ENGLISH GARDENS.
22. 22.PEACOCKS.
23. 23.ANCIENT LIBRARIES.
24. 24.KING CHARLES THE FIRST.
25. 25.THE FAIR GERALDINE AND THE EARL OF SURREY.
26. 26.JEWS IN ENGLAND.
27. 27.THE ENGLISH BIBLE.
28. 28.LUXURY OF ANCIENT ROME.
29. 29.RHYME.
30. 30.M. COQUEBERT DE MONTBRET.
31. 31.Dr. THOMAS PIERCE.
32. 32.WRITING AMONG THE GREEKS.
33. 33.ACCOUNT OF THE SCRIPTORIA, OR WRITING ROOMS IN THE MONASTERIES OF ENGLAND.
34. 34.TORTURE IN ENGLAND. [17]
35. 35.Dr. JOHNSON’S CONVERSATION WITH THE LATE KING.
36. 36.Dr. BEATTIE’S CONVERSATION WITH THE LATE KING AND QUEEN.
37. 37.SACRED GARDENS.
38. 38.SIR THOMAS WYAT. [DIED 1541.]
39. 39.THE HAND A SYMBOL OF POWER.
40. 40.HENRIETTA MARIA, QUEEN OF CHARLES THE FIRST.
41. 41.LAST MOMENTS OF PHILIP MELANCTHON. [34]
42. 42.HOUSE OF COMMONS.
43. 43.MOSAIC PAINTING.
44. 44.KING EGBERT.
45. 45.THE LATIN LANGUAGE.
46. 46.Dr. HERSCHEL.
47. 47.PARODIES.
48. 48.MOURNING FOR THE DEAD.
49. 49.GARRICK.
50. 50.LEMONS.
51. 51.ORIGIN OF THE POINT OF HONOUR.
52. 52.GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.
53. 53.LIFTING UP THE HAND IN SWEARING.
54. 54.VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
55. 55.KING ARTHUR.
56. 56.ALCHEMY.
57. 57.ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL NOBLE FAMILIES IN ENGLAND WHO OWE THEIR ELEVATION TO THE PEERAGE TO THEIR ANCESTORS HAVING BEEN ENGAGED IN TRADE.
58. 58.LAST MOMENTS OF QUEEN CAROLINE.
59. 59.THE BRITONS, ACCORDING TO THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS.
60. 60.THE SEVEN SLEEPERS.
61. 61.JOHN RAY, THE NATURALIST.
62. 62.LONDON BANKERS, AND THEIR ORIGIN.
63. 63.ELUCIDATION OF THE ORNAMENTS WITH WHICH THE GREEKS AND ROMANS ADORNED THE HUMAN HEAD ON COINS AND MEDALS. — THE DIADEM. — THE RADIATED CROWN. — THE CROWN OF LAUREL. — THE ROSTRAL CROWN. — THE MURAL CROWN. — THE CIVIC CROWN. — THE HELMET. — THE NIMBUS OR GLORY. — OTHER ORNAMENTS OF THE HEAD.
64. 64.THE TRADESCANTS.
65. 65.ORANGE TREES.
66. 66.ARTICLES OF USE AND LUXURY INTRODUCED INTO EUROPE BY THE ROMANS.
67. 67.ACCOUNT OF THE ESCAPE OF THE EARL OF NITHSDALE, FROM THE TOWER, IN THE YEAR, 1716.
68. 68.ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST RISE OF FAIRS IN ENGLAND, AND THE MANNER OF LIVING IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
69. 69.SIR RICHARD CLOUGH.
70. 70.ROYAL CLEMENCY.
71. 71.LOTTERIES.
72. 72.HERCULANEUM MANUSCRIPTS.
73. 73.WOLVES IN ENGLAND.
74. 74.PROFESSOR PORSON.
75. 75.HISTORY OF SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS. — CROSS-LEGGED MONUMENTS. — THE FOLLOWING RULES WERE OBSERVED BY ANCIENT SCULPTORS IN ERECTING SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS. [62] — CROSS-LEGGED MONUMENTS IN THE TEMPLE CHURCH. [63] — TABLE TOMB. — GRAVE STONES. — HERALDIC SYMBOLS. — MONUMENTS FOR ECCLESIASTICS. — THE SKELETON MONUMENT.

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