Suggestions on the Ancient Britons in Three PartsJ. R. Smith, 1854 |
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Side iv
... mystery , or an inordinate assumption , hangs over or attaches to that corner of Britain , and the Cambraic people , the history of Wales prior to the close of the sixth century of our era , and that of the Britons , except from the ...
... mystery , or an inordinate assumption , hangs over or attaches to that corner of Britain , and the Cambraic people , the history of Wales prior to the close of the sixth century of our era , and that of the Britons , except from the ...
Side v
... mystery , or to fill an acknowledged vacuum in history , and what a history , comprising that of Europe in and before the classic era ! We have Welsh records , in tolerable continuity , and extent of words , phrases , lines , pages ...
... mystery , or to fill an acknowledged vacuum in history , and what a history , comprising that of Europe in and before the classic era ! We have Welsh records , in tolerable continuity , and extent of words , phrases , lines , pages ...
Side 14
... mysterious for history , and is usually received as establishing Owain in a bad reputation . Successes against the Picts seem to merge Owen in Einion Urdd ; but Caswallon Hir was signalized in the same field ; he was son of Einion , or ...
... mysterious for history , and is usually received as establishing Owain in a bad reputation . Successes against the Picts seem to merge Owen in Einion Urdd ; but Caswallon Hir was signalized in the same field ; he was son of Einion , or ...
Side 21
... mystery in the Agapemone , " which celebrates a living swindler of the establishment as incarnate Deity , or in the Salt - city of the Mormons , who have wisely edged away from civilization and the sheriff to put out Mahomet's eyes with ...
... mystery in the Agapemone , " which celebrates a living swindler of the establishment as incarnate Deity , or in the Salt - city of the Mormons , who have wisely edged away from civilization and the sheriff to put out Mahomet's eyes with ...
Side 27
... mystery of numbering attaches to the saying , Who numbers the stones of Stonehenge will die ; Who does not count the pillars in the Cavern of the West will be impri- soned in it . In the Gwawd Llud , the Cymry are described as four ...
... mystery of numbering attaches to the saying , Who numbers the stones of Stonehenge will die ; Who does not count the pillars in the Cavern of the West will be impri- soned in it . In the Gwawd Llud , the Cymry are described as four ...
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Achæan Ægean ancient antiquity Apollo appears Aramitic archaic Argonauts Artemis Arthur Arthurian Asia Athens Attic Bacchus Bards Boeotia Brauron Britain British Britons Cabiric Cadmus Cæsar Celtic Celts Centaurs century chap chapter character chief Cimbri Cimric civilization classic connexion Crete Cymry Deity Delphi Diana district Dorians Doric Dragon Druids Dryopes dynasty early Egyptian emblem epoch Gaul gipsy gives Gorgon Greece Greek head Hebrew Hellas Hellenic Herbert Hercules hero Herod Herodotus Hesiod Hindu Homeric horse hymn Hyperborean Ibid idea Iliad institutions Iolchos Ionians Ionic island Kent language latter Maelgwin masonry Müll Müller mystery myths neighbourhood neighbours Nimrod noticed observed occurs Orchomenos original Orion Pallas Pausanias Pelasgic Peloponese Pendragon perhaps Persian Picts Pindar poems race records referred Roman Saxon sculpture seems Semitic settlement suggested symbol synonym thence Theseus Thracian tion topographical traditions Triads Tuscan tything Urien Vedas Vortigern Wales Welsh West word worship Xanthus
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Side 138 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Side 144 - Quem gens omnis in tribus ordinibus divisa consistit. Sunt enim inter illos qui Edhilingi, sunt qui Frilingi, sunt qui Lazzi illorum lingua dicuntur. Latina vero lingua hoc sunt: nobiles, ingenuiles, atque serviles.
Side 31 - Rome, and embracing the gypsy, insisted on her acceptance of the splendid gift, saying that it had been intended for the matchless songster which she now perceived she herself was not.
Side 241 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Side 31 - ... low trafficker, will be surprised to learn, that amongst the Gypsies of Moscow, there are not a few who inhabit stately houses, go abroad in elegant equipages, and are behind the higher orders of the Russians neither in appearance nor mental acquirements.
Side 46 - They are the same tall, fine limbed, bony slender people, with the same large, black, brilliant eyes, lowering forehead, and long hair curled at the extremities, which we meet on a common in England. I saw only one woman, and her figure was marked by the same characters. In height she would have made two of the usual females of this country, and she stepped out with the stride and firmness of a Meg Merrilies.
Side 161 - Suionas aliud mare pigrum ac prope immotum, quo cingi cludique terrarum orbem hinc fides, quod extremus cadentis jam solis fulgor in ortus edurat adeo clarus, ut sidera hebetet. Sonum insuper emergentis audiri, formasque deorum et radios capitis aspici persuasio adjicit.
Side 32 - ... committed, whereupon they fled out of the suburbs, and assembled about St. Mark's, the magnificent mansion and hospital of the knights of St. James, where the ministers of justice attempting to seize them were repulsed by force of arms ; nevertheless, all of a sudden, and I know not how, everything was hushed up. At this time they had a Count, a fellow who spoke the Castilian idiom with as much purity as if he had been a native of Toledo ; he was acquainted with all the ports of Spain, and all...
Side 32 - Tractatus de Magia," speaks of the Gypsies and their Counts to the following effect: "When, in the year 1584, I was marching in Spain with the regiment, a multitude of these wretches were infesting the fields. It happened that the feast of Corpus Domini was being celebrated, and they requested to be admitted into the town, that they might dance in honour of the sacrifice, as was customary; they did so, but...
Side 32 - Spain, and all the difficult and broken ground of the provinces. He knew the exact strength of every city, and who were the principal people in each, and the exact amount of their property. There was nothing relating to the State, however secret, that he was not acquainted with ; nor did he make a mystery of his knowledge, but publicly boasted of it.