Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Placenames, and Faeric SuperstitionsChapman & Hall Limited, 1920 - 894 páginas |
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... Ireland , letters were cut on the bark of trees prepared for that purpose and called poet's tables . The letters of the most ancient Irish alphabet are named after individual trees , and there are numerous references in Welsh poetry to ...
... Ireland , letters were cut on the bark of trees prepared for that purpose and called poet's tables . The letters of the most ancient Irish alphabet are named after individual trees , and there are numerous references in Welsh poetry to ...
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... Ireland , that remote little outpost of Europe , possesses more Celtic MSS . than all the rest of Celtic Europe put together ? The most rational explanation of these and similar queries is seemingly a consideration of the almost world ...
... Ireland , that remote little outpost of Europe , possesses more Celtic MSS . than all the rest of Celtic Europe put together ? The most rational explanation of these and similar queries is seemingly a consideration of the almost world ...
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... Ireland , but two of them foundered on the way . The Welsh version runs that the first of the perilous mishaps which occurred in Britain was " The outburst of the ocean ' Torriad lin lion , ' when a deluge spread over the face of all ...
... Ireland , but two of them foundered on the way . The Welsh version runs that the first of the perilous mishaps which occurred in Britain was " The outburst of the ocean ' Torriad lin lion , ' when a deluge spread over the face of all ...
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... Ireland , where bog - buried forests have been unearthed exhibiting all the signs of a flowing torrent of molten fire or lava . According to the author of Bogs and Ancient Forests , when the Bog of Allen in Kildare was cut through , oak ...
... Ireland , where bog - buried forests have been unearthed exhibiting all the signs of a flowing torrent of molten fire or lava . According to the author of Bogs and Ancient Forests , when the Bog of Allen in Kildare was cut through , oak ...
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... Ireland can boast of more than very few . It is , however , an Englishman's peculiarity that possessing perhaps the most interesting history , and some of the most fascinating relics in the world , he is either too modest or too dull to ...
... Ireland can boast of more than very few . It is , however , an Englishman's peculiarity that possessing perhaps the most interesting history , and some of the most fascinating relics in the world , he is either too modest or too dull to ...
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according Akerman Alban ancient archæology Avebury Bards barrow Biddenden Bona Dea Britain British Britons Cabiri called cave Celtic Celts centre Chislehurst Caves Christian Iconography Didron church circle coins connection connoted Cornish Cornwall Cretan Crete cross curious dene holes divine Druids earth Elphin emblem England English equated Etruria evidently fact fairy Father feet festival figures fire Folklore Gaulish giant Gnostic goddess Golden Golden Legend Greek Hill Holy illustrated implied Ireland Irish island Janus John King known land legend little doubt London Lord Maiden Mary Max Müller means meant megalithic modern Mother mystic mythology neighbourhood neighbouring once originally pagan parish place-name prehistoric probably Queen radically represented river rock Roman sacred saint Sancreed says seemingly Skeat stone Stonehenge Street suggested supposed symbol Tarchon term to-day town tradition tree Troy Wales Welsh wheel whence White Horse word worship
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Página 867 - Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 585 - The nine men's morris* is fill'd up with mud ; And the quaint mazes in the wanton green, For lack of tread, are undistinguishable...
Página 625 - And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God, and prophets. For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
Página 185 - He hath showed thee, -O man, what is good. And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Página 246 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together...
Página 488 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me: I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.
Página 791 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Página 75 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 826 - And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them : for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.
Página 185 - Who hate the good, and love the evil ; who pluck off' their skin from off them, and their flesh from off' their bones ; who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them ; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron...