| Joseph Ritson - 1828 - 282 pagina’s
...Piks came from Norway to Scotland" (I. 15). He was formerly, he allows, of a different opinion : " That the Piks were a new race, who had come in upon...; and that the Caledonians were Cumraig Britons." This seems highly rational, at least, if it were not the real fact. " But," he adds, " finding Tacitus,... | |
| Joseph Ritson - 1828 - 280 pagina’s
...Norway to Scotland" (I. 15). He was formerly, he allows, of a different opinion : " That the Piles were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians...; and that the Caledonians were Cumraig Britons." This seems highly rational, at least, if it were not the real fact. " But," he adds, " finding Tacitus,... | |
| 1829 - 590 pagina’s
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, ' he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them.' But finding that this theory, ' although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 584 pagina’s
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, " he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them." But finding that this theory, " although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 402 pagina’s
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, " he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them." But finding that this theory, " although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
| James Browne - 1838 - 558 pagina’s
...Picts, though he had — before he completely examined the subject — held the opinion that the Picts were a new race who had come in upon the Caledonians...century and expelled them, and that the Caledonians were Cumric Britons; but finding Tacitus, Eumenius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Bede, opposed, as he imagines,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pagina’s
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, " he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them." But finding that this theory, " although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 460 pagina’s
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, " he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them." But finding that this theory, " although perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1829 - 584 pagina’s
...frankly tells us, that before he had fully examined the subject, ' he was of opinion that the Picts were a new race, who had come in upon the Caledonians in the third century, and expelled them.' But finding that this theory, ' although, perhaps, many an acute and wise argument might be employed... | |
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