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Domestic Every-day Life, and Manners and Customs in this Country, from the Earliest Period to the End of the Last Century.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

George Harris Esq.
Affiliation:
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Extract

In the series of papers on “Domestic Every-day Life, and Manners and Customs in the Ancient World,” which I have had the pleasure of reading before this Society, I endeavoured to afford an insight into the mode of living among the people of the nations of old, more especially the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Jews, commencing with those of which we have the earliest authentic records, and carrying the account down to the period when Roman civilization arrived at the highest state of perfection which it ever reached. I described to you “the style of dress of the people, their cities and houses, the furniture which they used, their mode of taking their meals, their different kinds of amusements, their method of travelling both by land and water, their professional and commercial pursuits and occupations, their arts and manufactures, their way of carrying on war, their religious rites and ceremonies, and their funeral solemnities.” In affording this account I availed myself of the records of various kinds which the people of these several nations have left behind them, including not only the productions of their historians, but the various national monuments which yet remain, the works of art that have been preserved, the relics of ornaments and articles of domestic use that have been discovered, and the relics of their cities and buildings which have survived the shocks of time.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1877

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Page 85 note * Dr. Harris has deposited in the Society's archives a series of diagrams, illustrative both of the present paper and of his previous communications on kindred subjects.—ED.

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