. The Basilica : or, Palatial Hall of Justice and Sacred Temple : its nature, origin, and a description and history of the Basilican Church of Brixworth. the others are divergencies and reviewing the history of those buildings which,whether with cloud-capped towers, and loftypinnacles, and pointed spires, or in greatersimplicity of structure, have passed away, onecan hardly avoid a thought respecting the fate ofthose, and the communities to which they belong,that now exist. Macaulays image of the NewZealander, sitting upon London Bridge andsoliloquizing on the rui
. The Basilica : or, Palatial Hall of Justice and Sacred Temple : its nature, origin, and a description and history of the Basilican Church of Brixworth. the others are divergencies and reviewing the history of those buildings which,whether with cloud-capped towers, and loftypinnacles, and pointed spires, or in greatersimplicity of structure, have passed away, onecan hardly avoid a thought respecting the fate ofthose, and the communities to which they belong,that now exist. Macaulays image of the NewZealander, sitting upon London Bridge andsoliloquizing on the ruins of the Capital,which has obtained so much currency and ad-miration, may perhaps occur to the readersmind. It is not by any means an original ideaof our florid historian. He gained it from amore imaginative and eloquent writer, Volney,in his dazzling, but deceptive work, The Ruinsof Empires, who places himself amidst thewreck of Palmyra, and soliloquizes on theanticipated ruins of London and Paris. Simfncuique. Let us hope that the Spirit of Christianitywill preserve the Capital of this Christian countryfrom the occasion of any such THE BASILICAN CHIJECH OF BRIXWOETH. Wli^ 1C(t^ograpi)ic Illustrations. TO SIR CHARLES EDMUND ISHAM, BART. The Dedication of this Work on Brixworth Church isclearly due to you, as the Restoration of that ancient andinteresting building is more indebted to the kind and generousefforts of Lady Isham and yourself than to any one I avail myself of this call of Justice, for the expressionof other pleasurable, as well as grateful sentiments, to onewhom I have known from early youth, in whom I soondiscerned the early pursuit of knowledge for a future well-stored mind, and a refined taste for the elegant and usefulArts of Life, with a disposition to those better qualities whichhave endeared Lamport Hall and its inmates not to its ownneighbouxhood only, but far and wide through a great partof the County at large. That health and ha
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