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	Antiquarian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The London Society of Antiquaries was formed in the 18th century to promote the study of antiquities.
		In 1707 a number of English antiquaries began to hold regular meetings for the discussion of their hobby and in 1717 the Society of Antiquaries was formally reconstituted, finally receiving a charter from George II in 1751.
		The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in 1780, and had the management of a large national antiquarian museum in Edinburgh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antiquary (438 words)

	ANTIQUARY BARROW - LoveToKnow Article on ANTIQUARY BARROW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The London Society of Antiquaries was formed in an e 18th century to promote the study of antiquities.
		In 1707 a number of English ar itiquaries began to hold regular meetings for the discussion of in Leir hobby and in 1717 the Society of Antiquaries was formally hi constituted, finally receiving a charter from George II.
		The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in 1780, d has the management of a large national antiquarian museum Edinburgh.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AN/ANTIQUARY_BARROW.htm (1938 words)

	The Antiquary
		The Antiquary is set a decade after Guy Mannering in the 1790s, the time of Scott's youth and early manhood.
		In his introduction to The Antiquary, Scott states that the novel completes a trilogy illustrating three periods of Scottish history from the 1740s to the 1800s, though only Waverley is constructed around an actual historical event.
		Oldbuck, the antiquary of the title, takes an interest in Lovel who is a sympathetic listener to his learned discourses and whose misfortunes in love remind him of his own.
	www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk /works/novels/antiquary.html (693 words)

	EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Gnomish Antiquary PrC (revised) for critique
		Also, like an elf, a gnomish antiquary who merely passes within 5 feet of a secret or concealed door is entitled to a Search check to notice it as if she were actively looking for the door.
		The antiquary automatically notices the presence of magical auras within 20 feet (this range is also affected by the wind, as in Scent.) If the source of the magical aura is within 5 feet, noting the direction of the magical aura is a free action.
		The antiquary receives information about the object's approximate age, the alignment and physical appearance of the object's creator and all subsequent owners, and brief memories of noteworthy events involving the object, such as the death of an owner, or the use of the object in an epic battle.
	www.enworld.org /showthread.php?t=5760 (1528 words)

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		Macleuchar, our =Antiquary= only bestowed on the delay the honour of a few episodical poohs and pshaws, which rather seemed to regard the interruption of his disquisition than the retardation of his journey.
		To the second, the Antiquary was himself accessory, if not the principal cause of it; for, observing that one of the horses had cast a fore-foot shoe, he apprized the coachman of this important deficiency.
		The faith of Sir Arthur, as an antiquary, was boundless, and Mr.
	eserver.org /fiction/the-antiquary.txt (13638 words)

	The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott : Arthur's Classic Novels
		Walter Scott: The Antiquary a machine-readable transcription version 1.2: 1995-09-14 See the notes at the end of this file, for detailed information about the source edition and the contents of the file.
		The 'Index to The Antiquary' which is present in the printed edition (placed after the glossary), has been left out of the present edition.
		To the above advertisement, which was prefixed to the first edition of the Antiquary, it is necessary in the present edition to add a few words, transferred from the Introduction to the Chronicles of the Canongate, respecting the character of Jonathan Oldbuck.
	arthurwendover.com /arthurs/scott/antqry10.html (16049 words)

	Bellrock.org.uk : Arbroath : Sir Walter Scott and "The Antiquary"
		When Scott accompanied Robert Stevenson on his tour of Scottish lighthouses in 1814, it was his third visit to Arbroath and its Abbey.
		“The Antiquary” (Scott’s personal favourite) is not perhaps one of his better-known stories.
		Here he is befriended by the antiquary Jonathan Oldbuck, who has taken refuge from his own personal disappointments in the obsessive study of miscellaneous history.
	www.bellrock.org.uk /arbroath/arbroath_scott.htm (268 words)

	The Antiquary
		I know not if it be worth while to observe, that the Antiquary,* was not so well received on its first appearance as either of its predecessors, though in course of time it rose to equal, and, with some readers, superior popularity.
		How generously and wisely he admired her is familiar, and it may, to some, seem curious that he never deliberately set himself to a picture of ordinary life, free from the intrusion of the unusual, of the heroic.
		Thus it happens that, in “The Antiquary,” with all his sympathy for the people, with all his knowledge of them, he does not confine himself to their cottages.
	www.pos1.info /a/ant3w.htm (13831 words)

	The Musical Antiquary 1909-1913
		Antiquary are well-known scholars in the field of British musicology: William Barclay Squire (1855-1927), William Henry Grattan Flood (1859-1928), Richard Alexander Streatfield (1866-1919), Frank Kidson (1855-1926), H. Ellis Wooldridge (1845-1917), and Henry Tillyard (1881-1968).
		Among the studies of Renaissance polyphonic music in The Musical Antiquary is a series of articles in which the beginnings and finals (cadences) of motets in all eight modes are discussed and illustrated with musical examples.
		Of great interest is the extensive contribution of pioneer Byzantine scholar H. Tillyard in the form of a two-part article explaining Byzantine liturgical music and its musical notation.
	www.nisc.com /RIPM/volume_description/MUA.htm (497 words)

	Chapter Antipeptone <i>to</i> Antithetically of A by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.
		Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities.
		One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1192/21608/3.html (181 words)

	The Antiquary, Vol. 2 by Sir Walter Scott
		Thus continued the Antiquary to maunder, as his sister expressed it, during the whole time of breakfast, while, despite of sugar and honey, and all the comforts of a Scottish morning tea-table, his reflections rendered the meal bitter to all who heard them.
		The young lady was somewhat at a loss to reconcile this direction with the communication which she supposed must have passed between Sir Arthur and the Antiquary; but she was compelled, for the present, to remain in a most unpleasant state of suspense.
		The diggers were now so far advanced in their labours as to discover that the sides of the grave which they were clearing out had been originally secured by four walls of freestone, forming a parallelogram, for the reception, probably, of the coffin.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/7/0/0/7004/7004-h/7004-h.htm (16584 words)

	The Antiquary (Oxford World's Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Penguin edition, sadly, gives the book in a tinkered-with text that Scott never saw, and supplies it with a baffling and unhelpful introduction by some academic called Punter that he wouldn't have understood a word of.
		This was a crying shame, as The Antiquary is Scott's funniest, most mature book and amply deserves the loving treatment OUP have now given it.
		The introduction and notes to this new amazingly inexpensive paperback are clear, intelligent & actually intended to help someone enjoy a very subtle and profound piece of storytelling - well done to this N Watson (a good Scots name, promisingly!).
	i16.jp /file/us/0192831879.html (281 words)

	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He also wrote ghost stories. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was published in a limited edition in 1904 and reprinted nine times in the next decade.
		He subsequently published three other collections - More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), and A Warning to the Curious (1926).
		James greatly admired the supernatural fiction of J. Sheridan LeFanu and thought of himself as simply a follower in LeFanu's footsteps.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0486227588 (196 words)

	The Antiquary Superior Deluxe Scotch Whisky, review by Alternative Whisky Academy
		Now owned by United Distillers, Sanderson is the producer of The Antiquary.
		The company was one of the blenders who began trading in the early to mid nineteenth century, who were responsible for the popularizing of blended whiskies in the lucrative market of southern England.
		Comments : A smooth, well balanced, premium blend which displays the mellowness expected from its blend of whiskies all aged 12 years and over.
	www.awa.dk /whisky/antiquar (132 words)

	Ghost Stories by M. R. James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) is known as one of the originators of the modern ghost story.
		James, long fond of telling spectral tales at Christmastide, has become by slow degrees a literary weird fictionist of the very first rank; and has developed a distinctive style and method likely to serve as models for an enduring line of disciples.
		All except Casting the Runes were published in his 1904 volume Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.
	www.encompass.net /ctyson/ghost.htm (259 words)

	The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott (chapter30)
		The captain put a small ring-case into the Antiquary’s hands, which, when opened, was found to contain an antique ring of massive gold, with a cameo, most beautifully executed, bearing a head of Cleopatra.
		When breakfast was over, the Antiquary proposed to his nephew to go down with him to attend the funeral.
		I shall have her!” snatched the walking-stick out of the hand of the astonished Antiquary, at some risk of throwing him down, and set off at full speed to get between the animal and the sea, to which element, having caught the alarm, she was rapidly retreating.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /s/scott/walter/antiquary/chapter30.html (3223 words)

	Dave's Garden: antiquary's Garden Site
		Leave feedback for antiquary or read feedback left by other members.
		View the member feedback antiquary has written of others.
		For antiquary, the time is 1:16 PM antiquary lives in Unknown
	davesgarden.com /members/antiquary (125 words)

	The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott (chapter36)
		In the morning of the following day, the Antiquary, who was something of a sluggard, was summoned from his bed a full hour earlier than his custom by Caxon.
		While the morning’s meal of the young soldier and the old Antiquary was despatched in much more substantial manner, the noise of wheels was heard.
		Having received a brief account of the mendicant, and of the accusation brought against him, which Oldbuck did not hesitate to ascribe to the malice of Dousterswivel, Lord Glenallan asked, whether the individual in question had not been a soldier formerly?—He was answered in the affirmative.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /s/scott/walter/antiquary/chapter36.html (2470 words)

	The Antiquary, Volume 2 by Sir Walter Scott - Full Text Free Book (Part 3/5)
		The Antiquary was a gentleman, as we have seen, in feeling, but blunt and
		Antiquary; "but I never heard that they were quite so rigorously
		Such was the scarce-subdued ejaculation of the Antiquary.
	www.fullbooks.com /The-Antiquary-Volume-23.html (16622 words)

	Gilgamesh
		Originally written before 1900 BC, and probably existing much earlier, the most complete version of this tale belonged to the seventh century library of Assurbanipal, antiquary and last great king of the Assyrian Empire.
		He sent out his servants to search the archives of Babylon, Uruk and Nippur to copy and translate into the contemporary Akkadian Semitic those texts which were in the older Sumerian language of Mesopotamia.
		The mourners weighed out their offerings to Ereshkigal, the Queen of Death; Namtar, the god of fate; and to all the gods of the dead.
	www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk /gilgamesh.htm (1768 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ghost Stories of an Antiquary was published in a limited edition in 1904 and reprinted nine times in the next decade.
		The ghost stories of M.R. James (MRJ) are widely considered to be the best supernatural literature ever written.
		"Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" was his first collection of short stories to be published (Arnold 1904) and is a fine introduction to this chilling, scholarly author.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0809596121 (1086 words)

	The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Scott, Walter eBook by BookRags
		The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Scott, Walter eBook by BookRags
		The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Sir Scott, Walter
		Such of them as were in the habit of travelling through a particular district, were usually well received both in the farmer’s ha’, and in the kitchens of the country gentlemen.
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	Review More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. (Short Story Index Reprint Series) - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" was his second collection of short stories to be published (1911) and includes seven tales of the supernatural.
		However, you might want to spend a bit more money and buy the "The Penguin Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James." If you completely succumb to the refined but potent horror of this author's writings, only "A Pleasing Terror" (Ash Tree Press 2001)...
		The "ghost" designation is a bit misleading, as these stories seldom if ever involve ghosts in the conventional sense.
	computertoaster.com /reviews/asinsearch_083693945X (189 words)

	The Antiquary, Compare Book Prices & Find Cheap New, Used Books
		Antiquary on horseback: The first publication of the collections of the Rev. Thos.
		The land of the Antiquary: Notes of a tour from Fairport to Lunan Bay
		From Antiquary to Archaeologist: Study of William Cunnington of Heytesbury
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	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. - JAMES, MONTAGUE RHODES, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		JAMES, MONTAGUE RHODES, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.
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	The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott (chapter9) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Antiquary’s countenance became clouded, though he was too well bred to give way, in the presence of a stranger, to his displeased surprise at the, disappearance of the viands on which he had reckoned with absolute certainty.
		So saying, the Antiquary took up a bedroom candlestick of massive silver and antique form, which, he observed, was wrought out of the silver found in the mines of the Harz mountains, and had been the property of the very personage who had supplied them with a subject for conversation.
		And having so said, he led the way through many a dusky and winding passage, now ascending, and anon descending again, until he came to the apartment destined for his young guest.
	worldebooklibrary.com /eBooks/Adelaide/s/scott_walter/antiquary/chapter9.html (2635 words)

	The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Scott, Walter eBook by BookRags
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