Northern Antiquities: Or, An Historical Account of the Manners, Customs, Religion and Laws, Maritime Expeditions and Discoveries, Language and Literature of the Ancient ScandinaviansH. G. Bohn, 1847 - 578 sider |
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... appear , if it can be shown , that ancient Germany , Scandinavia , Gaul and Bri- tain , were not inhabited by the descendants of one single race ; but on the contrary , divided between two very different people ; the one of whom we ...
... appear , if it can be shown , that ancient Germany , Scandinavia , Gaul and Bri- tain , were not inhabited by the descendants of one single race ; but on the contrary , divided between two very different people ; the one of whom we ...
Side 4
... appear at first sight very plausible . But whoever considers how little we can depend upon the etymo- logy of obsolete words , derived from barbarous dead lan- guages , in which there are no books extant , will not build very securely ...
... appear at first sight very plausible . But whoever considers how little we can depend upon the etymo- logy of obsolete words , derived from barbarous dead lan- guages , in which there are no books extant , will not build very securely ...
Side 6
... appear to have been sometimes more precise and accurate in their de- scriptions . There is a remarkable passage of this kind in Strabo ; in which he informs us that , although the old Greek authors gave all the northern nations the ...
... appear to have been sometimes more precise and accurate in their de- scriptions . There is a remarkable passage of this kind in Strabo ; in which he informs us that , although the old Greek authors gave all the northern nations the ...
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... appear to have had that equal plan of liberty , which was the peculiar honour of all the Gothic tribes , and which they carried with them , and planted wherever they formed settlements . On the contrary , in Gaul , all the freedom and ...
... appear to have had that equal plan of liberty , which was the peculiar honour of all the Gothic tribes , and which they carried with them , and planted wherever they formed settlements . On the contrary , in Gaul , all the freedom and ...
Side 11
... , 8vo . Stukely's Stonehenge , and Abury , 2 vols . 1740 , & c . , folio . But especially Dr. Borlace's Antiquities of Cornwall , 2nd edit . 1769 , folio . other respects , how much they differed will appear at BISHOP PERCY'S PREFACE . 11.
... , 8vo . Stukely's Stonehenge , and Abury , 2 vols . 1740 , & c . , folio . But especially Dr. Borlace's Antiquities of Cornwall , 2nd edit . 1769 , folio . other respects , how much they differed will appear at BISHOP PERCY'S PREFACE . 11.
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