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	Arundel marbles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Arundelian Marbles are a collection of Greek marbles collected by Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel in the early 17th century, the first such comprehensive collecton of its kind.
		The Arundel marbles had been catalogued as early as 1628, when at the suggestion of Sir Robert Cotton John Selden had compiled a catalogue, with the assistance of two learned coadjutors, Patrick Young and Richard James.
		In 1763 Richard Chandler published a fine edition of the inscriptions as Arundelian Marbles, Marmora Oxoniensia with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for supplying the lacunae.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arundelian_Marbles (433 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus
		Statuary marble is a pure, white, fine-grained kind, including Parian (from Paros) and Carrara marble.
		A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
		"The marble pillars and tesserae of various colours of the palace at Susa came doubtless from Persia itself, where marble of various colours is found, especially in the province of Hamadan Susiana." The marble of Solomon's architectural works may have been limestone from near Jerusalem, or from Lebanon, or possibly white marble from Arabia.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=Marble (514 words)

	marble
		Marble (n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes.
		Marble (n.) A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
		Marble (n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
	fileprofile.com /Games/puzzles_word_games/goof_ball/marble.htm (229 words)

	The King James Dictionary on StudyLight.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Marble is limestone, or a stone which may be calcined to lime, a carbonate of lime; but limestone is a more general name, comprehending the calcarious stones of an inferior texture, as well as those which admit a fine polish.
		Marble is much used for statues, busts, pillars, chimney pieces, monuments, &c.
		Arundelian marbles, marble pieces with a chronicle of the city of Athens inscribed on them; presented to the university of Oxford, by Thomas, earl of Arundel.
	www.studylight.org /dic/kjd/print.cgi?number=T3529 (175 words)

	Richard Chandler - LoveToKnow 1911
		RICHARD CHANDLER (1738-1810), British antiquary, was born in 1738 at Elson in Hampshire, and educated at Winchester and at Queen's and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford.
		His first work consisted of fragments from the minor Greek poets, with notes (Elegiaca Graeca, 1759); and in 1763 he published a fine edition of the Arundelian marbles, Marmora Oxoniensia, with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for supplying thelacunae.
		He was sent by the Dilettanti Society with Nicholas Revett, an architect, and Pars, a painter, to explore the antiquities of Ionia and Greece (1763-1766); and the result of their work was the two magnificent folios of Ionian antiquities published in 1769.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Richard_Chandler (216 words)

	marble
		A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
		Note: Marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds; when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as marble-breasted, marble-faced, marble-hearted.
		It is here rendered "white marble." But nothing is certainly known of it (3.) Bahat, "red marble," probably the verd-antique or half-porphyry of Egypt.
	www.beetfoundation.com /words/m/marble.html (512 words)

	Marble - definition from Biology-Online.org
		The colour varies from white to fl, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded.
		The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
		marble is also much used in self-explaining compounds; when used figuratively in compounds it commonly means, hard, cold, destitute of compassion or feeling; as, marble-breasted, marble-faced, marble-hearted.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/Marble (290 words)

	The Genoot Library - Universal British Directory, 1791 - Oxford, Oxfordshire
		Under it are the schools of the several sciences; in one of which are placed the Arundelian marbles, given to the university by Henry Howard, earl-marshal, grandson to Lord Arundel, at the instance of Mr.
		Over the chimney-piece, which is handsomely executed in dove-coloured marble, is a bust of the founder: on one side is a bust of Linacre, formerly fellow, a famous physician in the reign of Henry VIII.
		On the north wall of this chapel, eastward of the organ, is a singular curiosity: a marble urn containing the heart of Dr. Rawlinson, enclosed in a silver vessel, which was placed here according to the directions in his last will.
	www.genoot.com /eng/oxf/o/oxford/ubd.html (18375 words)

	July 7th
		The Arundelian Marbles, as they came to be called, were all stored in and about a mansion which the earl possessed in the Strand, on the river side, between Essex House and Somerset House.
		The ground at Kennington, whither some of the marbles had been removed, was subsequently let for a timber-yard, and a wharf built thereon: and when the ground was cleared for rebuilding St.
		Paul's Cathedral, great quantities of the rubbish were taken there, to raise the ground, which used to be overflowed every spring tide: so that, by degrees, the statues and fragments were buried under the rubbish, and there lay almost forgotten for many years.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/july/7.htm (3028 words)

	Livid's Lividict - marble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc. Note: {Breccia marble} consists of limestone fragments cemented together.
		> 1 大理石制的 a marble hearth 大理石壁炉 2 与大理石相似的; 类似大理石的
		Headwords: Marble, CO Marble From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz2k-places]: Marble, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota Population (2000): 695 Housing Units (2000): 308 Land area (2000): 4.309250 sq.
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	Ashmolean Museum: Gallery Guide - Room 01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The ancient Greek and Roman sculpture exhibited here comes for the most part from the former Arundel Collection ("The Arundel Marbles"); the rest come from other collections formed in the last three hundred years.
		Most of the sculptures from the collection of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), one of the first of its kind in England, were given to the University in 1667 and 1755; a few have been purchased subsequently.
		Most of the "Arundel Marbles" were found on sites in Italy, Asia Minor or the Greek Islands in the early seventeenth century.
	www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk /ash/guide/t-text/room01.html (163 words)

	THE PARIAN CHRONICLE, OR CHRONICLE OF THE ARUNDELIAN MARBLES.. - (ROBERTSON, JOSEPH.), (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		THE PARIAN CHRONICLE, OR CHRONICLE OF THE ARUNDELIAN MARBLES..
		Gustav Waagen dubbed The Earl of Arundel one of the "Great Trio" of English connoisseurs (along with King Charles I and the Duke of Buckingham.) This wo published fifty years before Waagen's assessment, is an attempt to prove that one work in Arundel's great collection, a large marble, The Parian Chronicle, was a fraud.
		Robertson (1726-1802) discusses the marble in the context of ot antiquarian fakery and literary frauds.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/bookpr/32252.shtml (160 words)

	NIXON, John., An essay on a Sleeping Cupid being one of the Arundelian Marbles in the collection of the (late) Right ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		NIXON, John., An essay on a Sleeping Cupid being one of the Arundelian Marbles in the collection of the (late) Right Honourable The Earl of Pomfret.
		An essay on a Sleeping Cupid being one of the Arundelian Marbles in the collection of the (late) Right Honourable The Earl of Pomfret.
		Most of the Arundel marbles were given to Oxford in 1667, some pieces, however, like the Sleeping Cupid, were bought by William Fermor, the connoisseur, to be housed at Easton Neston which had been built by Wren and Hawksmoor.
	www.polybiblio.com /quaritch/AP101.html (144 words)

	ACTS OF THE APOSTLES - Chapter XIX.
		The Greek text seems to signify a statue, or figure of Diana, which was pretended to have fallen from heaven, and from Jupiter.
		Greek: Neokoron ousan; the word Greek: Neokoros is found in this sense in the Arundelian marbles, and more frequently on ancient coins and inscriptions.
		Its derivation is from Greek: neos, a temple, and Greek: kore, a virgin, or rather Greek: korein, to cleanse and decorate; as if this city were especially destined to ornament the Diana of Ephesus, which the people supposed came to them not by the work of man, but a present from heaven.
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	Significant Scots - Patrick Young
		In 1629, having recently been married, he was presented with two rectories in Denbighshire; soon, after, he became a prebend of St Paul’s, and the treasurer of that cathedral; and, in 1624, he attained, by the influence of bishop Williams, the office of Latin secretary.
		Young, whose reputation was now widely extended, was one of the learned persons chosen by Selden to aid in the examination of the Arundelian marbles.
		He made a careful examination of the Alexandrian manuscript of the Bible, and communicated some various readings to Grotius, Usher, and other learned men.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/young_patrick.htm (351 words)

	Marble Meaning and Definition
		(n.) A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
		(n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
		(n.) To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
	en.thinkexist.com /dictionary/meaning/marble (188 words)

	Marble - The King James Dictionary on StudyLight.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Marble - The King James Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		The popular name of any species of calcarious stone or mineral, of a compact texture, and of a beautiful appearance, susceptible of a good polish.
		Suggestions about making this resource more useful should be sent to sugg@studylight.org
	www.studylight.org /dic/kjd/view.cgi?number=T3529 (215 words)

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		arundelian Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.
		chisel To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
		It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.
	www.csd.uwo.ca /courses/CS210a/asmt4/large.txt (21836 words)

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		Now the whole of that tract of country is flat and level, and from the sands near Koningsberg, through the calcareous loam of Poland and the Ukraine, evidently alluvial and of comparatively recent formation.
		If the Trojan war happened, according to the Arundelian Marbles, 1209 years before Christ, this event must have been subsequent to the Argonautic expedition only about fifty years: yet, in this short space of time, the Greeks had made great advances in the art of ship building, and in navigation.
		The equipment of the Argonautic expedition was regarded, at the period it took place, as something almost miraculous; yet the ships sent against Troy seem to have excited little astonishment, though, considering the state of Greece at that period, they were very numerous.
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		From the days of the old marbled paper Northern Regions,--through the quarto Ross and Parry and Back and the nephew Ross and Kane and McClure and McClintock, you know, my dear, what my one passion has been,--to see those floes and icebergs for myself.
		For, if you will take the long estimates, you will find that some folks think Homer lived as long ago as the year 1150, and some that it was as 'short ago' as 850.
		"Confess that you forgot the Arundelian Marbles!" THE SOUTH AMERICAN EDITOR [I am tempted to include this little burlesque in this collection simply in memory of the Boston Miscellany, the magazine in which it was published, which won for itself a brilliant reputation in its short career.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/5/8/6/15868/15868-8.txt (20022 words)

	ANACALYPSIS
		According to the Arundelian marbles**, iron was not found out till 188 years before the war of Troy.
		The Incas had a cross of very fine marble, or beautiful jasper, highly polished, of one piece, three-fourths of an ell in length, and three fingers in width and thickness.
		It was kept in a secret chamber of a palace, and held in great veneration.
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	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| Worksop, The Dukery and Sherwood Forest: Worksop Manor (2)
		This house replaced the far larger residence named here, and which contained 500 rooms.
		It was undergoing alterations, which had cost the Duke of Norfolk £22,000 and which were nearly completed, when on October 20th, 1761, the whole building was burnt to the ground, including the library, a valuable collection of pictures, magnificent furniture, and part of the Arundelian marbles.
		Leland, writing in the reign of Henry VIII., says "By Worksoppe is a parke of six or seven miles in compace, longging to the Earl of Shrewsbury," and from "An exact and perfect survey and view of ye Mannor of Workesop w
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /white1875/worksop_manor2.htm (627 words)

	M.D to Mysterious Three
		“Borak was a fine—limbed, high—standing horse, strong in frame, and with a coat as glossy as marble.
		He was the first royal champion, and his male issue ceased with Philip Marmion in the reign of Edward I. Sir John Dymoke, who married Margery, daughter of Joan, the only surviving child of Philip, claimed the office and manor in the reign of Richard II.; they have remained in his male line ever since.
		Luna An ancient seaport of Genoa, whence the marble quarried in the neighbourhood is called “marmo lunense.” (Orlando Furioso.)
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		EDGEWORTHSTOWN, _Jan, 29, 1800._ More precious to us than Arundelian marbles are letters from Arundel, and after an interval of almost three months dear Sophy's letter was most welcome.
		The inside was suitable in grandeur to the outside; hall, staircase, antechambers; the library fitted up entirely with books in plain handsome mahogany bookcases, not a frippery ornament, everything grand, but not gaudy; marble tables, books upon the tables; nothing littered, but sufficient signs of living and occupied beings.
		There were no pictures, but the walls were painted in the manner of the Speaker's room at the Temple, and by the master who taught De Gray.
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	P.C to Python
		This beautiful marble column, 170 feet in height, contains a spiral of bas—reliefs of the wars of the Roman emperor, wholly out of character with the statue which surmounts it.
		It is ongraved on Parian marble, and was found in the island of Paros.
		It is one of the Arundelian Marbles (q.v.
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	Curiosities of Literature: An English Academy of Literature
		The warm loyalty of Evelyn in the first hopeful days of the Restoration, in his dedicatory epistle of Naudé’s treatise on libraries, called that philosophical meeting T
		This degenerate heir to the literature and the name of Howard seemed perfectly relieved when Evelyn sent his marbles which were perishing in his gardens, to Oxford, and his books which were diminishing, daily, to the Royal Society!
		OCIETY OF might create a deeper interest, could we penetrate to its secret history: it was interrupted, and suffered to expire, by some obscure cause of political jealousy.
	www.spamula.net /col/archives/2005/12/an_english_acad.html (2673 words)

	Clarke's Commentary - Revelation 13
		Thus c, the initial of cilia, stood for a thousand; d, the initial of deka, for ten; p, the initial of pente, for five, &c.
		Herodotus, the grammarian, is the only writer of antiquity who has noticed this system, and the chronological table of remarkable events on the Arundelian marbles the only work extant in which this method of representing numbers is exhibited.
		The system now in use cannot be traced to any very ancient source.
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