| John Wainwright - 1829 - 444 páginas
...The latter also, when speaking of the various forest trees, remarks, " that the Druids hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe, and the tree on which it grows, providing it be an oak. Therefore they choose solitary groves, wherein are no trees but the oak ; nor... | |
| Josiah Priest - 1834 - 412 páginas
...celebrated writer on natural history, and most learned of the ancient Romans : " The Druids hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe, and the tree on which it grows, provided it be the oak. They make choice of groves of oak on this account ; nor do they perform any of their... | |
| John Allen Giles - 1847 - 440 páginas
...world. He speaks as follows of the Druids : ( " The Druids, who are the magi of Gaul, esteem nothing more sacred than the mistletoe, and the tree on which it grows, if only it is an oak. Indeed they choose out groves of oaks, and use their leaves in all their sacred... | |
| 1853 - 420 páginas
...description of this ceremony is that given by Pliny (book xvi. chap. 44). He says, " The Druids hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree on which it grows, provided it be an oak. Therefore they choose solitary groves containing no trees but oaks ; nor do they perform... | |
| 1853 - 428 páginas
...description of this ceremony is that given by Pliny (book xvi. chap. 44). He says, " The Druids hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree on which it grows, provided it be an oak. Therefore they choose solitary groves containing no trees but oaks ; nor do they perform... | |
| Philip William Perfitt - 1859 - 448 páginas
...itself. According to Pliny they were very particular in gathering it. He says, the Druids hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree on which it grows, provided it be an oak. Therefore they choose solitary groves containing no trees but oaks ; nor do they perform... | |
| HENRY INCE - 1860 - 326 páginas
...of the people of distant climes. Pliny (Nat. Hist. lib. XTI. c. 95) says, "The magi esteem nothing more sacred than the mistletoe, and the tree on which it grows, if only it be an oak; indeed, they select groves of oaks and use the leaves in all their sacred rites,... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1861 - 554 páginas
...their respect for the mistletoe. " The druids," he says, " who are the magi of Gaul, esteem nothing more sacred than the mistletoe, and the tree on which it grows, if only it be an oak. Indeed they select groves of oaks, and use their leaves in all their sacred rites,... | |
| George Eller - 1861 - 282 páginas
...which destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii, — " The Druids, who are the Magi of Gaul, esteem nothing more sacred than the mistletoe, and the tree on which it grows, if only it be an oak. Indeed they choose out groves of oaks, and use their leaves in all their sacred... | |
| 1864 - 450 páginas
...unnoticed," says Pliny ; " the Druids (thus they call their chief priests) hold nothing in greater veneration than the Mistletoe and the tree on which it grows, provided only that it be the Oak. They select groves of Oak-trees standing by themselves, and perform no sacred ceremonies... | |
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