LINCOLN CASTLE CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9780267854349 Géneros: HD Sinópsis: Excerpt from Lincoln CastleSomething of all this is visible to mere mortal ken and far more to him who adds to the material prospect a know ledge of the past and the distant It is true that the vision thus beheld from the guarded mount of Lincoln is not equal to that far wider and more noble outlook from a more exalted pinnacle upon the description of which Milton has poured forth in one glittering roll the full stream of his learning illuminated by the fire of his genius but it is nevertheless one in which the student of the past may well take delightLincoln itself is thickly strewed with the footsteps of the past The Briton the Roman the Saxon the Dane the Englishman and the Norman have successively been lords of the soil and each has left his mark either in material traces or in a nomenclature still less liable to decay A great historian our chief authority also in matters of topo graphy has pronounced the earthworks to the north of the city to be of British origin If this be so they must be the work of those Romanised Britons who attempted though in vain to hold their country against the Picts and Scots and the Scandinavian hordes from beyond the German Ocean and who while so striving showed some considerable acquaintance with the Roman rules of castrametation though unequal it would seem to the works in masonry for which that people was so celebrated The conclusion that these earthworks are if not Roman postroman British rests upon the fact that their outline is rectangular and that the enclosure is bisected nearly equally by the Roman wayAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an i