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... and iii . of " Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language , " chiefly collected and drawn by George Petrie , LL.D. , and The Bishop of Limerick's elaborate and extensive arguments concerning the THE OGHAM - RUNES AND EL - MUSHAJJAR . 11.
... and iii . of " Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language , " chiefly collected and drawn by George Petrie , LL.D. , and The Bishop of Limerick's elaborate and extensive arguments concerning the THE OGHAM - RUNES AND EL - MUSHAJJAR . 11.
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... language ; and , although many know the words " El - Mushajjar " and " El - Shajari , " few have any definite ideas upon the subject . I have often heard reports of a manuscript which contains a complete description of the character ...
... language ; and , although many know the words " El - Mushajjar " and " El - Shajari , " few have any definite ideas upon the subject . I have often heard reports of a manuscript which contains a complete description of the character ...
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... language of these epigraphs had some connection with Zend , and the characters with Greek . A few of the letters resemble Ogham - runes and El - Mushajjar for in- stance , the characters below the alphabets ( loc . cit . ) are true ...
... language of these epigraphs had some connection with Zend , and the characters with Greek . A few of the letters resemble Ogham - runes and El - Mushajjar for in- stance , the characters below the alphabets ( loc . cit . ) are true ...
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... languages , is from the same root as a word - as widely spread - for death : mare , Meer ( German ) , meer , from the same root as mors , murder . 14 Thus much therefore we know by the infallible testimony of language , that when our ...
... languages , is from the same root as a word - as widely spread - for death : mare , Meer ( German ) , meer , from the same root as mors , murder . 14 Thus much therefore we know by the infallible testimony of language , that when our ...
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... language , and the outcome were frequent expeditions -more by many than we know of now - to find it . At last they ended happily in the discovery , if not of a deathless land , at any rate of a new world . In just the same spirit are ...
... language , and the outcome were frequent expeditions -more by many than we know of now - to find it . At last they ended happily in the discovery , if not of a deathless land , at any rate of a new world . In just the same spirit are ...
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Página 178 - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same...
Página 178 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet: he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Página 742 - Fates, — the Past, Present, Future ; watering its roots from the Sacred Well. Its ' boughs,' with their buddings and disleafings, — events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word ? Its boughs are Histories of Nations. The rustle of it is the noise of Human Existence, onwards from of old.
Página 176 - Poetry has been to me its own * exceeding great reward:' it has soothed my afflictions 5 it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Página 173 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Página 174 - No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Página 173 - Poetry turns all things to loveliness ; it exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which is most deformed ; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change ; it subdues to union, under its light yoke, all irreconcilable things.
Página 177 - I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation.
Página 177 - All the appearances of nature I was therefore careful to study, and every country which I have surveyed has contributed something to my poetical powers." "In so wide a survey," said the prince, "you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived, till now, within the circuit of these mountains and yet cannot walk abroad without the sight of something which I had never beheld before or never heeded.
Página 95 - ON THE HISTORY, SYSTEM, AND VARIETIES OF TURKISH POETRY. Illustrated by Selections in the Original and in English Paraphrase, with a Notice of the Islamic Doctrine of the Immortality of Woman's Soul in the Future State. By JW Redhouse, Esq., MRAS 8vo, pp.