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Excerpt from The Antiquities of HeraldryAs a general rule we are disposed to consider unreasonable scepticism as much the besetting sin of modern literary criticism, as indiscriminating credulity was of the ancient. - Saturday Review.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 st...

Excerpt from A Plea for the Antiquity of Heraldry: With an Attempt to Expound Its TheoryHereditary family arms prevalent in all ages and countries - The colours and devices painted on the bodies and shields of savages, distinctions of tribes and clans, originally the personal adoption of Chieftains, transmitted from father to son, and to succeeding tribes, the origin, for the most part, of all subsequent national and family arms - The parti-co...

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About the Book Books about Agricultural Engineering discuss the application of engineering theory and practice to agricultural production and management problems. Titles include: A Brief Discourse on Wine, A short history of British agriculture, Agricultural Chemistry, American Grape Training, Electro-horticulture, Farm Crops Laboratory Manual and Note Book, Forest Planting in New Jersey, Mushrooms for the Million. A Practical Treatise on the ...

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bTitle:/b Hurstpierpoint, its lords and families, ancient and modern ... Reprinted from ... the Sussex Archaeological Collections. [With plates.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, p...

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Excerpt from The Antiquities of Heraldry The two most important works of recent times on Heraldry, are Mr. Boutell's English Heraldry Historical and Popular and Mr. Seton's Laxo and Practice of Heraldry in Scotland. They are both copious volumes, highly instructive and valuable, both didactic, and full of well digested information, derived from authentic sources, but argumentative only on points of detail and minor interest, and do not indulg...

Excerpt from A Plea for the Antiquity of Heraldry: With an Attempt to Expound Its Theory Hereditary family arms prevalent in all ages and countries - The colours and devices painted on the bodies and shields of savages, distinctions of tribes and clans, originally the personal adoption of Chieftains, transmitted from father to son, and to succeeding tribes, the origin, for the most part, of all subsequent national and family arms - The parti-...