Antiquitist

“But,” he adds, “finding Tacitus, Eumenius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Beda, in full and direct opposition to this idea, [certainly false with respect to the first and two last, if not to the second;] and not choosing to imitate our Scotish antiquitists in fighting against authorities,[which is nevertheless his constant practice,] I was forced to abandon this ground. … For ancient authorities,” he concludes, “are the sole guides to real truth in historic antiquities; conjectures and arguments are only ingenious lies:” which made him abandon the former, and have recourse only to the latter (I. 106).

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The discovery consists of seven large horns and other bones of extinct animals, known by antiquitists as the behemoth.

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Every man needs a hero, not merely among the antiquitists, but among the personal friends, and to-night you have Sir William Whyte here.

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“We’ll not quarrel, your champion antiquitist and me. I only want to buy a chair for my sister to complete her set, and I hear that Dymoke is the best antique chair man in the county – yes, Dymoke was the name.[…]”

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