[audiobook] Amy Grant - The Christmas Collection: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection by Amy Grant at Arts-Photography

Description

Amongst the vestiges of antiquity which abound in this country; are the visible memorials of those nations which have succeeded one another in the occupancy of this island. To the age of our Celtic ancestors; the earliest possessors of its soil; is ascribed the erection of those altars and temples of all but primeval antiquity; the Cromlechs and Stone Circles which lie scattered over the land; and these are conceived to have been derived from the Phoelig;nicians; whose merchants first introduced amongst the aboriginal Britons the arts of incipient civilization. Of these most ancient relics the prototypes appear; as described in Holy Writ; in the pillar raised at Bethel by Jacob; in the altars erected by the Patriarchs; and in the circles of stone set up by Moses at the foot of Mount Sinai; and by Joshua at Gilgal. Many of these structures; perhaps from their very rudeness; have survived the vicissitudes of time; whilst there scarce remains a vestige of the temples erected in this island by the Romans; yet it is from Roman edifices that we derive; and can trace by a gradual transition; the progress of that peculiar kind of architecture called Gothic; which presents in its later stages the most striking contrast that can be imagined to its original precursor.