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... poets , and the Bardic songs of Homer and Ossian , Vallancey's Irish Records , and O'Connor's Chronicles of Erin , shall be pointed out and exhibited . Beyond this period , history is scarcely more than the vague and inaccurate ...
... poets , and the Bardic songs of Homer and Ossian , Vallancey's Irish Records , and O'Connor's Chronicles of Erin , shall be pointed out and exhibited . Beyond this period , history is scarcely more than the vague and inaccurate ...
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... poets and historians , are a set of fictions by persons totally regardless of historic ve- racity , and who amused themselves and the ignorant people whom they addressed , by these absurd personifications . There never was a nation so ...
... poets and historians , are a set of fictions by persons totally regardless of historic ve- racity , and who amused themselves and the ignorant people whom they addressed , by these absurd personifications . There never was a nation so ...
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... poet , according to Pezron . Antiq . des Gaules , vol . ii . p . 378. Innes . The Eubages , says Ammianus Marcel- linus , were an inferior kind of Druids , ( lib . xv . p . 51. ) Bard , or Barth , is probably the Hebrew or Chaldee word ...
... poet , according to Pezron . Antiq . des Gaules , vol . ii . p . 378. Innes . The Eubages , says Ammianus Marcel- linus , were an inferior kind of Druids , ( lib . xv . p . 51. ) Bard , or Barth , is probably the Hebrew or Chaldee word ...
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... poem of Taliessin , called , " The Appeasing of Ludd , " it appears that tradition peopled Britain from Asia by the way of Gafis , Gades , ( Cadiz . ) p . 101 . P. 102. Mr. Lumisden , in his Antiquities of Rome , has shewn that many of ...
... poem of Taliessin , called , " The Appeasing of Ludd , " it appears that tradition peopled Britain from Asia by the way of Gafis , Gades , ( Cadiz . ) p . 101 . P. 102. Mr. Lumisden , in his Antiquities of Rome , has shewn that many of ...
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... Poem , composed by some woman of the name of Beo , who men- tions the three Hyperboreans , Pagasis , Agyeus and Olen . Val- lancey ( Coll . Hib . vol . iii . p . 163 ) says that in the old Irish books the three ranks of Irish Druids are ...
... Poem , composed by some woman of the name of Beo , who men- tions the three Hyperboreans , Pagasis , Agyeus and Olen . Val- lancey ( Coll . Hib . vol . iii . p . 163 ) says that in the old Irish books the three ranks of Irish Druids are ...
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Page 156 - ... her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all ,with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 160 - ... outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Page 463 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 456 - Art thou called being a servant '( care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Page 257 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 321 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy...
Page 332 - ... though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to but with the prophet, "O earth, earth, earth!
Page 457 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 213 - Hunter's pithy remark is quoted, "some physiologists will have it, that the stomach is a mill, others, that it is a fermenting vat, others, again, that it is a stew-pan; but, in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan ; but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
Page 355 - It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.