The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama, Том 1Alex. Lawrie and Company, 1804 - 506 страница |
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... various wri- ters have proceeded to trace its consequences . For Druidic antiquities it would be in vain to search ; instead of temples and other edifices , they consecrated the misletoe , and the oak on which it grew . Nor can it be ...
... various wri- ters have proceeded to trace its consequences . For Druidic antiquities it would be in vain to search ; instead of temples and other edifices , they consecrated the misletoe , and the oak on which it grew . Nor can it be ...
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... various instances it may undoubtedly be found employed as a translation of the word Druid : but there is no necessity for concluding , that in the present instance it could not possibly have been used in any other sense , Mr Ledwich , a ...
... various instances it may undoubtedly be found employed as a translation of the word Druid : but there is no necessity for concluding , that in the present instance it could not possibly have been used in any other sense , Mr Ledwich , a ...
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... various authors ; and , among others , by Cumin and Adomnan , natives of Ireland , and Abbots of Iona " . These bio- graphers seem to have regarded him as but one degree inferior to our Saviour himself . That , to- words the close of ...
... various authors ; and , among others , by Cumin and Adomnan , natives of Ireland , and Abbots of Iona " . These bio- graphers seem to have regarded him as but one degree inferior to our Saviour himself . That , to- words the close of ...
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... various of our writers , were all natives of one country ; and that country is Scot- land . Yet to an unprejudiced enquirer it will perhaps appear sufficiently evident , that the first was an Englishman , the second an Irishman , the ...
... various of our writers , were all natives of one country ; and that country is Scot- land . Yet to an unprejudiced enquirer it will perhaps appear sufficiently evident , that the first was an Englishman , the second an Irishman , the ...
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... various other authors " . Sir James Ware , a more impartial judge , exposes the futility of the etymology . Dempster avers , that Joannes de Sacrobosco clearly suggests John Holybush , a name not unknown in Scot land ' and in one of the ...
... various other authors " . Sir James Ware , a more impartial judge , exposes the futility of the etymology . Dempster avers , that Joannes de Sacrobosco clearly suggests John Holybush , a name not unknown in Scot land ' and in one of the ...
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