Prospectus of a Dictionary of the Language of the Aire Coti, Or, Ancient Irish, Compared with the Language of the Cuti, Or Ancient Persians, with the Hindoostanee, the Arabic, and Chaldean LanguagesGraisberry and Campbell, 1802 - 77 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... those abfurd fables of the Greeks ; and without reading a number of authors , not admitted at this day in our schools , it is impoffible to understand the writings of HESIOD and of HOMER . Who but an Orientalist can tell , that the ship ...
... those abfurd fables of the Greeks ; and without reading a number of authors , not admitted at this day in our schools , it is impoffible to understand the writings of HESIOD and of HOMER . Who but an Orientalist can tell , that the ship ...
Pagina 10
... those fabulous accounts we read of them in their writings . I am well aware of the fneers and contempt of the unlearned critic , at the explanation given in this effay , of the most ancient Oriental names on record ; he will fimile at ...
... those fabulous accounts we read of them in their writings . I am well aware of the fneers and contempt of the unlearned critic , at the explanation given in this effay , of the most ancient Oriental names on record ; he will fimile at ...
Pagina 14
... those languages ; taking the fame ferviles ; ufing the fame metaphors , fo much admired by modern Oriental scholars , all which are pointed out in the following work . And lastly , the mythology is the fame as that of the Brahmins , the ...
... those languages ; taking the fame ferviles ; ufing the fame metaphors , fo much admired by modern Oriental scholars , all which are pointed out in the following work . And lastly , the mythology is the fame as that of the Brahmins , the ...
Pagina 22
... those of that name in Syria were of Cuthite extraction . In confequence of this , the poet , in speaking of them , gives the fame precise character , as he has exhibited above , and specifies plainly their original . Upon the Syrian fea ...
... those of that name in Syria were of Cuthite extraction . In confequence of this , the poet , in speaking of them , gives the fame precise character , as he has exhibited above , and specifies plainly their original . Upon the Syrian fea ...
Pagina 28
... those learned gentlemen , plainly proving the religion of the Pagan Irish was that of the Brahmins ; and as it was acknowledged by that great Welsh historian Lhwyd , that the Irish were the primitive inhabitants of all the western ifles ...
... those learned gentlemen , plainly proving the religion of the Pagan Irish was that of the Brahmins ; and as it was acknowledged by that great Welsh historian Lhwyd , that the Irish were the primitive inhabitants of all the western ifles ...
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affertion Afia Aire Coti Aire-Coti alfo Allod alphabet alſo altar ancient Iriſh Arabic Armenia athair becauſe Bochart Brahmins Brehon Laws Budh Buxt called Chaldæan Chaldee Coti cuſtoms dæmon Daghda defcended deity derived dialect diſcovered Draoi Egypt Egyptian Engliſh eſt facred faid fame fays fervile fhepherds fhew fhip fignifies fire firſt fome fometimes fpeech fuch fuit fynonimous Greeks Hebrew hence Hercules Hindooſtanee hiſtory horſe houſe Indian Indo-Scythæ Indo-Scythians inhabitants Iran Ireland Iriſh Iriſh hiſtory Irish language iſland king language learned letters moſt muſt nomen O'Brien obferves Ogham old Iriſh origin pagan paradife Pehlvi Perfian Phoenicians prefixed preſent preſerved prieſt pudendum Puranas quæ quod radix reaſon religion Sanfcrit ſays ſcience Scoti Scythians ſhall ſhip ſhould Spain ſpeak ſtone ſtudy Syria thefe themſelves theſe thigh thofe thoſe tranflated tree tribe underſtand uſed Weſtern whence whofe Wilford word worſhip Zend Zoroafter
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Pagina x - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Pagina vi - Mofaical hiftory : for before the difpctfion we read of no city but Babel ; nor could there well be more, while all mankind were yet in a body together ; but when Nimrod...
Pagina xlii - TUSHT to have been loft, and its place fupplied by a recent compilation) I had no inducement, though I had an opportunity, to learn what remains of thofe ancient languages ; but I often converfed on them with my friend BAHMAN, and both of us were convinced after full confideration, that the Zend bore a ftrong refemblance to Sanfcrit, and the Pablavi to Arabick.
Pagina 26 - The book was then clofed, and reftored to its place at the altar; and the people being feated as before, two men entered, bearing a large iron caldron, called a curray, juft taken from the fire, and placed it in the center of the hall upon a low ftool.
Pagina xlix - Jannat, or the garden ; and sometimes they call it, with an addition, Jannat al Ferdaws, the garden of paradise ; Jannat Aden, the garden of Eden, (though they generally interpret the word Eden, not according to its acceptation in Hebrew, but according to its meaning in their own tongue, wherein it signifies a settled or perpetual habitation...
Pagina lxx - ... places. Neither is the genius of the commonalty confined to this kind of learning alone ; for I saw a poor man, near Black-stones, who had a tolerable notion of calculating the EPACTS, GOLDEN NUMBER, DOMINICAL LETTER, THE MOON'S PHASES, and THE ECLIPSES, although he had never been taught to read English.
Pagina 4 - ... at that time, to exprefs all the thoughts of man's heart, and to convince the hearers of any truth whatfoever, in either a literary or a religious matter. And this blindnefs of the reformers with regard to their uniformly praying and preaching in...
Pagina 26 - This argha, as a type of the adhara-sacti, or power of conception, excited and vivified by the linga, or Phallus, we cannot but suppose to be one and the same with the ship Argo, which was built, according to Orpheus, by Juno and Pallas, and according to Appolonius, by Pallas and Argus at the instance of Juno : the Yoni, as it is usually pronounced, nearly resembles the name of the principal Hetruscan goddess...