Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from Illustrations of the History of Great Britain, Vol. 2 of 2: An Historical View of the Manners and Customs, Dresses, Literature, Arts, Commerce, and Government, of Great Britain, From the Time of the Saxons, Down to the Eighteenth CenturyLoss of early illustrations of History - l. British and Roman period.-knowledge confined to the Druids -the'u' notions of the Universe, Astronomy, Arith metic, Geometry, Mechanics, Physic and Surge) y the Anguinum Ovum or Serpent's Egg - Druidical Orqwry - Use of Greek letters - Education, and its improvement by the Romans British Sculpture, Painting, Poetry and Music - Useful arts known to the Britons Hunting, Pasturage, Agricul ture and Gardening, Architecture - Art of War, Soldiers, Warbchariots, and manner of fighting Decline of Arts, &c., On the Romans leaving Bri tain - British Letters and Language. 2. Saxon Pe rz'ods.~ - Barbarity of the time, and first introduc tion of Learning - Bede - Libraries and books Decay of letters, and their revival under jelfred Antiquity of Oxford and Cambridge - Saxon Lan guage and Writing - Saxon Poetry, Music, Paint ing and Sculpture - Architecture - Study of Na tural Philosophy - Astronomy - anglo-saxon Ca leudar - Geography - Arithmetic - Medicine - Art of F ishing - Agriculture - Tradesmen and Mecha. Nics, Smiths, Workers in Gold and Jewels, Glass.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.