Origins of the English People and the English LanguageD. Appleton, 1888 - 658 pagina's |
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Pagina 2
... seem to have called themselves Britons , nor can any complete and satisfactory explanation of the name be discovered in any of the Celtic dialects . Its earliest occurrence is found in the pages of Greek and afterward Latin writers ...
... seem to have called themselves Britons , nor can any complete and satisfactory explanation of the name be discovered in any of the Celtic dialects . Its earliest occurrence is found in the pages of Greek and afterward Latin writers ...
Pagina 4
... seem that they were kindly received , as , to make room for the new - comers , the first colonists spread themselves along the borders of the western sea , which region thenceforward took exclusively the name of Cambria , while the ...
... seem that they were kindly received , as , to make room for the new - comers , the first colonists spread themselves along the borders of the western sea , which region thenceforward took exclusively the name of Cambria , while the ...
Pagina 6
... seems , would be adorned with skulls of his enemies , nailed up against the porch , among the skins and horns of beasts . The practice was described by Posidonius as prevailing among northern nations , and he confessed that , though at ...
... seems , would be adorned with skulls of his enemies , nailed up against the porch , among the skins and horns of beasts . The practice was described by Posidonius as prevailing among northern nations , and he confessed that , though at ...
Pagina 11
... seem to have been compara- tively rich and prosperous . Different it was in the north- ern and western parts of Britain ... seems , were isolated from their eastern neighbors by a wide marsh of woods and fens , The tract of country over ...
... seem to have been compara- tively rich and prosperous . Different it was in the north- ern and western parts of Britain ... seems , were isolated from their eastern neighbors by a wide marsh of woods and fens , The tract of country over ...
Pagina 13
... seems to have survived even in Cæsar , De Bell . Gall . , v , c . 14 . Tacitus , Ann . , xiv , c . 38 . The woad - plant , called vitrum from its use in the manufacture of glass , has properties like those of indigo . " The herb usually ...
... seems to have survived even in Cæsar , De Bell . Gall . , v , c . 14 . Tacitus , Ann . , xiv , c . 38 . The woad - plant , called vitrum from its use in the manufacture of glass , has properties like those of indigo . " The herb usually ...
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