The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon: A History of the Early Inhabitants of Britain, Down to the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to ChristianityA. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1861 - 494 Seiten |
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Seite 104 - Maeataa dwell close to the wall which divides the island into two parts, and the Caledonii live beyond them. Each of these people inhabit wild mountains, where there is no water, and desert plains and marshes, where they live without walls or cities ; neither do they practise husbandry, but live by pasturage, or the...
Seite 449 - ... that they refuse us our right and stand up in defence of a thief that we all of us ride thereto with the reeve within whose ' manung
Seite 402 - But because you are come from far into my kingdom, and as I conceive are desirous to impart to us those things which you believe to be true, and most beneficial, we will not molest you, but give you favourable entertainment, and take care to supply you with your necessary sustenance ; nor do we forbid you to preach and gain as many as you can to your religion.
Seite 216 - ... the blue and slate-coloured vessels met with here in such abundance, were coloured by suffocating the fire of the kiln, at the time when its contents had acquired a degree of heat sufficient to insure uniformity of colour. I had so firmly made up my mind upon the process of manufacturing and...
Seite 212 - ... the whole island with a particular class of earthenware, but which perhaps also furnished an export trade ; for we find urns and other vessels precisely similar . to the Upchurch ware in considerable quantity among the .Roman pottery dug up in the neighbourhood of Boulogne. The clay which constitutes the soil in the Upchurch marshes is very tenacious, of a dark colour, and of fine quality, well calculated for the manufacture of pottery. The prevailing colour of the Upchurch pottery, which is...
Seite 449 - And also send on both sides to the reeves and desire from them aid of so many men as may seem to us adequate for so great a suit that there may be the more fear in those culpable men for our assemblage and that we all ride thereto and avenge our wrong and slay the thief and those who fight and stand with him unless they be willing to depart from him.
Seite 240 - the method adopted by the Romans of producing the blast necessary to smelt the metal was made apparent. Two tunnels had been formed in the side of a hill ; they were wide at one extremity, but tapered off to a narrow bore at the other, where they met in a point. The mouths of the channels opened towards the west, from which quarter a prevalent wind blows in this valley, and sometimes with great violence. The blast received by them would, when the wind was high, be poured with considerable force...
Seite 348 - In accepting such offerings they were supposed to exhibit a sort of goodfellowship towards the people of the house, and in this resembled the, brownies and cluricaunes of modern times. They were supposed to show themselves at times in various forms, often of a grotesque description, and sometimes as animals, such as dogs, and even as serpents. A bronze figure of a lar, or household god, found at Herculaneum, represents him as a little old man sitting on the ground, with his knees up to his chin,...
Seite 105 - ... shaken it may terrify the enemy by its noise ; they use daggers also ; they are capable of enduring hunger, thirst, and hardships of every description ; for when plunged in the marshes they abide there many days with their heads only out of water; and in the woods they subsist on bark and roots ; they prepare for all emergencies a certain kind of food, of which if they eat only so much as the size of a bean they neither hunger nor thirst. Such then is the island of Britannia, and such the inhabitants...
Seite 448 - ... with his own property, and then let him be paid its worth : but if he cannot prove that by lawful averment, let him give it up, and let the owner take possession of it.