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... Druids , with Mr. Jones's answers ; a learned Welsh scholar who commented on the ancient laws of his nation . - Toland's History of the Druids . A later Welsh scholar affirms , " beyond all doubt there has been an era when science ...
... Druids , with Mr. Jones's answers ; a learned Welsh scholar who commented on the ancient laws of his nation . - Toland's History of the Druids . A later Welsh scholar affirms , " beyond all doubt there has been an era when science ...
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... Druid- ism . Nor has this notion been the mere phantom of modern system - makers . It was a subject of inquiry among the ancients whether the Druids had received their singular art of teaching , by secret initiation , and the ...
... Druid- ism . Nor has this notion been the mere phantom of modern system - makers . It was a subject of inquiry among the ancients whether the Druids had received their singular art of teaching , by secret initiation , and the ...
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... Druids of Gaul were fain to resort to the Druids of Britain to renovate their instruction . The Druids have left no record of themselves ; they seem to have disdained an immortality separate from the existence of their order ; but the ...
... Druids of Gaul were fain to resort to the Druids of Britain to renovate their instruction . The Druids have left no record of themselves ; they seem to have disdained an immortality separate from the existence of their order ; but the ...
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Isaac Disraeli. his curiosity , Cæsar was not a Druid ; and only a Druid could have written - had he dared ! -- on DRUID- HEACHT - a sacred , unspeakable word at which the people trembled in their veneration . The British Druids ...
Isaac Disraeli. his curiosity , Cæsar was not a Druid ; and only a Druid could have written - had he dared ! -- on DRUID- HEACHT - a sacred , unspeakable word at which the people trembled in their veneration . The British Druids ...
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... Druids were not the people , and without their sympathies , these judges at least sided with no party . But if these ... Druids were the common fathers of the British * Toland's Hist . of the Druids , 56 . youth , for they were the ...
... Druids were not the people , and without their sympathies , these judges at least sided with no party . But if these ... Druids were the common fathers of the British * Toland's Hist . of the Druids , 56 . youth , for they were the ...
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Page 66 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 67 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That...
Page 1 - But his learned and able (though unfortunate) successor, is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue, which may be compared or preferred either to insolent Greece, or haughty Rome.
Page 69 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Page 307 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.
Page 72 - ... the Hebrew (and I think the Syriac), the Greek, the Latin, the Italian, Spanish, and French. All which sorts of books to be confined to read, without understanding one word, must needs be a trial of patience almost beyond endurance.
Page 133 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Page 267 - Chaucer, notwithstanding the praises bestowed on him, I think obscene and contemptible: — he owes his celebrity merely to his antiquity, which he does not deserve so well as Pierce Plowman, or Thomas of Ercildoune.
Page 78 - Misgave him; he the faltering measure felt; And forth to meet her went, the way she took That morn when first they parted: by the tree Of knowledge he must pass; there he her met, Scarce from the tree returning; in her hand A bough of fairest fruit, that downy smiled, New gather'd and ambrosial smell diffused.
Page 190 - The emancipation of the national language was subsequently confirmed by another monarch. A curious anecdote in our literary history has recently been disclosed of Henry V. To encourage the use of the vernacular tongue, this monarch, in a letter missive to one of the city companies, declared that '' the English tongue hath in modern days begun to be honourably enlarged and adorned, and for the better understanding of thepeople the common idiom should be exercised in writing:" this was at once setting...