The History of Cornwall: From the Earlist Records and Traditions, to the Present TimeSamuel Drew W. Penaluna, 1824 - 729 Seiten |
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... took up their final residence in Cornwall ; in which place they continued , until both the vanquisher and the vanquished were blended together in one undistinguished mass . Some notices however , of their ancient manners and customs ...
... took up their final residence in Cornwall ; in which place they continued , until both the vanquisher and the vanquished were blended together in one undistinguished mass . Some notices however , of their ancient manners and customs ...
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... took one of his stations at low water , as he told me , upon the Gulph Rock , ( Wolf Rock ) where he observed a cavity like a brewer's copper , with rubbish at the bottom , without being able to assign a cause for its coming there . " + ...
... took one of his stations at low water , as he told me , upon the Gulph Rock , ( Wolf Rock ) where he observed a cavity like a brewer's copper , with rubbish at the bottom , without being able to assign a cause for its coming there . " + ...
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... took place . But this period can no more be known with certainty , than the number of acres can be ascertained with accuracy , which the restless ocean has torn with violence from the diminished land . * Scawen's MS . pp . 9 , 10 ...
... took place . But this period can no more be known with certainty , than the number of acres can be ascertained with accuracy , which the restless ocean has torn with violence from the diminished land . * Scawen's MS . pp . 9 , 10 ...
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... took place , this singular rock continued to be inhabited , by men who must have known , and who in all probability would have recorded the circumstance , if such an event as we have supposed , had actually occurred during their long ...
... took place , this singular rock continued to be inhabited , by men who must have known , and who in all probability would have recorded the circumstance , if such an event as we have supposed , had actually occurred during their long ...
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... took place . He informs us , that " on the third of the nones of November , in 1099 , the sea came out upon the shore , and buried towns and men very many , and oxen and sheep innumerable . " Another account relating to the same event ...
... took place . He informs us , that " on the third of the nones of November , in 1099 , the sea came out upon the shore , and buried towns and men very many , and oxen and sheep innumerable . " Another account relating to the same event ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ages ancient Britons appear barrow Bodmin Borlase Borlase's Antiquities borough Britain British called Carew carried Cassiterides castle Cesar character charter Christianity church circumstances coasts coins conquest consequence considerable continued Cornish language Cornwall cromleh custom Danes Danmonium denominated derived Devon Devonshire Diodorus Diodorus Siculus discovered doubt Druids Earl of Cornwall earth England erected evidence Exeter favour feet formed fortifications Fowey furnish Gaul Greeks ground harbour Helston hill History of Cornwall honour Ictis inhabitants inscription Isle king land Land's End Launceston Liskeard Lord Lostwithiel manner manor metal miles mines monument Mount's Bay natives nature observes occasion opinion originally parish of St period Phenicians Polwhele present principal probably procured reign remains respecting Restormel Castle river Romans Saltash Saxons says Scilly Islands seems shores singular situation stone supposed Tamar town trade Tregony Truro various vestiges western Whitaker worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 122 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Seite 532 - I'll venture my life, She has drank of the Well of St Keyne." " I have left a good woman who never was here...
Seite 532 - But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm tree stand beside, And behind does an ash tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the water below. A traveller came to the Well of St. Keyne...
Seite 185 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
Seite 71 - And the LORD was with Judah ; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain ; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Seite 533 - Keyne,' quoth the Cornish-man, 'many a time Drank of this crystal Well, And before the Angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell. 'If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life.
Seite 71 - And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us : and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
Seite 123 - And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree : and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: for they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Seite 239 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail ; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners : thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
Seite 131 - And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.