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Mr. Higgins asks ( after Mr. Huddleston ) if the Irish Celts had culled or selected
their alphabet from that of the Romans , as some persons have absurdly
imagined , how or by what miracle could they have hit on the identical letters
which ...
Mr. Higgins asks ( after Mr. Huddleston ) if the Irish Celts had culled or selected
their alphabet from that of the Romans , as some persons have absurdly
imagined , how or by what miracle could they have hit on the identical letters
which ...
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The heavenly personifications , and the earthly deifications of the Greek poets
and historians , are a set of fictions by persons totally regardless of historic
veracity , and who amused themselves and the ignorant people whom they
addressed ...
The heavenly personifications , and the earthly deifications of the Greek poets
and historians , are a set of fictions by persons totally regardless of historic
veracity , and who amused themselves and the ignorant people whom they
addressed ...
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If Hercules Ogmius is said to have invented the Ogham , this only shews that the
Ogham writing was considered as of great antiquity at the time and by the person
who made the assertion ; but it is so rude and inartificial , that no great extent of ...
If Hercules Ogmius is said to have invented the Ogham , this only shews that the
Ogham writing was considered as of great antiquity at the time and by the person
who made the assertion ; but it is so rude and inartificial , that no great extent of ...
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If any person should maintain that , not the author's Celtæ , but his own Scythians
or Goths were those who first came , it would scarcely be considered worth a
reply . Call them Goths then ; it matters not . They were the persons , Goths or
Celts ...
If any person should maintain that , not the author's Celtæ , but his own Scythians
or Goths were those who first came , it would scarcely be considered worth a
reply . Call them Goths then ; it matters not . They were the persons , Goths or
Celts ...
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men , to whom un real skill and science , the Greeks were children . how , wus tie
knowledge necessary to these stupendous erections to be communicated among
persons who wrote no books , and who probably could not write at all ?
men , to whom un real skill and science , the Greeks were children . how , wus tie
knowledge necessary to these stupendous erections to be communicated among
persons who wrote no books , and who probably could not write at all ?
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