Britannia Antiquissima ; Or, a Key to the Philology of History (sacred and Profane)H.T. Dwight, 1860 - 216 sider |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 34
Side xiv
... give a brief account as to the purport and origin of this work , as stated by the President of our last anniversary banquet . The following essays or lectures owe their birth to my esteemed and patriotic friend , John B. Humffray ...
... give a brief account as to the purport and origin of this work , as stated by the President of our last anniversary banquet . The following essays or lectures owe their birth to my esteemed and patriotic friend , John B. Humffray ...
Side 4
... give you a list of the fanciful , and ingenious interpretations of mankind , respecting our Ynys Prydain , as Pryd - cain , a fair aspect ; Bri - ton , above the sea , of the Cyniry ; Braidin , the extensive land of the Irish ; Brutus ...
... give you a list of the fanciful , and ingenious interpretations of mankind , respecting our Ynys Prydain , as Pryd - cain , a fair aspect ; Bri - ton , above the sea , of the Cyniry ; Braidin , the extensive land of the Irish ; Brutus ...
Side 7
... give a few of the Cimmerian roots . Kuμepic , or Cimmeris , was a city defended by fortifications on the north , and enclosing the isthmus by an earthen wall or embankment , not unlike , if I apprehend its description correctly , to the ...
... give a few of the Cimmerian roots . Kuμepic , or Cimmeris , was a city defended by fortifications on the north , and enclosing the isthmus by an earthen wall or embankment , not unlike , if I apprehend its description correctly , to the ...
Side 15
... give any uneasiness to the dominant powers now installed in regal pomp in the old Galatian capital of Gordium . Oi Talaraι to every scholar , is a well known acknowledged form for Gauloi ,, or Celts , who were called by way of ...
... give any uneasiness to the dominant powers now installed in regal pomp in the old Galatian capital of Gordium . Oi Talaraι to every scholar , is a well known acknowledged form for Gauloi ,, or Celts , who were called by way of ...
Side 23
... give you but one simple sample of this species of geo- graphical ignorance . Ex uno disce omnes . Herodotus , the pride of Greece and father of history , is blamed by Eratosthenes " an historian of Cyrene , and a protege of Ptolemy ...
... give you but one simple sample of this species of geo- graphical ignorance . Ex uno disce omnes . Herodotus , the pride of Greece and father of history , is blamed by Eratosthenes " an historian of Cyrene , and a protege of Ptolemy ...
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Britannia Antiquissima, Or, a Key to the Philology of History, Sacred and ... John Jones Thomas Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2019 |
Britannia Antiquissima, Or, a Key to the Philology of History (Sacred and ... John Jones Thomas Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2019 |
Almindelige termer og sætninger
according Adamitic ages ancient angle antiquity Armorican Asia Minor Asiatic astronomical authority bardic bardism bards bearing Britannia Cadw Caer Cæsar called castles Celtic Cimbric Cimbro-Celtic Cimmerian clan classic Coelbren coins crwth Cyclic poets Cymry Deffrobani derived Diodorus Siculus divine doctrine druidical druids earth elements expression facts Gaul Greece Greek heaven Hebrew Hellenic Hence Herodotus historical Homer Hyperborean idea inhabitants interpretation island Isle of Britain king land language Latin learned letters light mabinogion merian modern nation natural ocean original passage Pelasgi philosophic Phoenician prehistoric primary primeval primitive prince principles privilege Prydain race reference respecting Roman Rome root sacred Saxons session signifies speak stone Strabo symbol Taliesin Tarshish Tartessus term thee theogony thou Three things tion triad triadic triangle tribes Troiau truth Umbric un-Celtic unknown vols 8vo worship Ynys Prydain
Populære passager
Side 87 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Side 100 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Side 148 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly, that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Side 108 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Side 55 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Side 138 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Side 22 - SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains?
Side 156 - Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
Side 56 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around And still I seem to tread on classic ground...
Side 143 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...