Origins of English HistoryB. Quaritch, 1882 - 458 Seiten |
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... Pliny's northern geography - Description of Germany by Tacitus -- The Gothones and Suiones - The Northern Ocean - The Amber Coast - The Sitones- Obligations of Tacitus to Greek writers - Route of Pytheas - Passage to Celtica- The ...
... Pliny's northern geography - Description of Germany by Tacitus -- The Gothones and Suiones - The Northern Ocean - The Amber Coast - The Sitones- Obligations of Tacitus to Greek writers - Route of Pytheas - Passage to Celtica- The ...
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... Pliny - The Celtic races of Northern and Western Britain - Little affected by the English invasions - The evidence from language of uncertain value - The tribes of the South - West - Their superior culture -Their foreign trade ...
... Pliny - The Celtic races of Northern and Western Britain - Little affected by the English invasions - The evidence from language of uncertain value - The tribes of the South - West - Their superior culture -Their foreign trade ...
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... Pliny is the same : " Tin , it is now well ascertained , is produced , in Lusitania and Gallæcia , sometimes of a black colour on the surface of the sandy soil , and distinguishable only by weight ( peroxide of tin ) , sometimes in ...
... Pliny is the same : " Tin , it is now well ascertained , is produced , in Lusitania and Gallæcia , sometimes of a black colour on the surface of the sandy soil , and distinguishable only by weight ( peroxide of tin ) , sometimes in ...
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... Pliny placed them correctly on the Spanish coast , which he knew to be at a great distance from Britain ; but Strabo , following older calculations , believed that the north of the Peninsula ( by which he meant the neighbourhood of ...
... Pliny placed them correctly on the Spanish coast , which he knew to be at a great distance from Britain ; but Strabo , following older calculations , believed that the north of the Peninsula ( by which he meant the neighbourhood of ...
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... Pliny describes the coracle still more exactly , as made of wicker - work , round which leather was sewed . Boats of similar construction are still used on the west coast of Ireland , and can live in seas which would be fatal to craft ...
... Pliny describes the coracle still more exactly , as made of wicker - work , round which leather was sewed . Boats of similar construction are still used on the west coast of Ireland , and can live in seas which would be fatal to craft ...
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Seite 82 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Seite 12 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Seite 295 - This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses ; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep; and so on.' After that, they use the same ceremony to the noxious animals : ' This I give to thee, O fox ! spare thou my lambs; this to thee, O hooded crow ! this to thee, 0 eagle !' When the ceremony is over, they dine on the caudle...
Seite 294 - On that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them. Each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and, flinging it over his shoulder, says, " This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses : this to thee, preserve thou my sheep ;
Seite 294 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation: on that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this to thee, preserve thou my...
Seite 137 - ... and every man drives in three for each wife that he marries. Now the men have all many wives apiece; and this is the way in which they live. Each has his own hut, wherein he dwells, upon one of the platforms, and each has also a trap-door giving access to the lake beneath...
Seite 394 - ... carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added the picture of a giant, was in all likelihood first instituted.4 BURFORD, Co.
Seite 81 - And that is the reason why the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is such a quantity of shallow mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.
Seite 425 - Ac fuit antea tempus, cum Germanos Galli virtute superarent, ultro bella inferrent, propter hominum multitudinem agrique inopiam trans Rhenum colonias mitterent.
Seite 33 - A Woman sitting down, takes a handful of Corn, holding it by the Stalks in her left hand, and then sets fire to the Ears, which are presently in a flame ; she has a Stick in her right hand, which she manages very dexterously, beating off the Grain at the very Instant, when the Husk is quite burnt, for if she miss of that, she must use the Kiln ; but Experience has taught them this Art to perfection. The Corn may be so dressed, winowed, ground, and baked within an Hour after reaping from the Ground.