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... Greek and Roman languages , ( other adoptions are but trivial in comparison with them ) as Englishmen , and as fcholars , let us cultivate the study of those two languages , and we shall presently find , that by having acquired a ...
... Greek and Roman languages , ( other adoptions are but trivial in comparison with them ) as Englishmen , and as fcholars , let us cultivate the study of those two languages , and we shall presently find , that by having acquired a ...
Page xv
... Greek language , let us just take a review of this argument : -Homer is faid to have lived about 1000 , of 900 years before Chrift ; therefore it can hardly be fuppofed , from what has been here advanced , that the Greek language was ...
... Greek language , let us just take a review of this argument : -Homer is faid to have lived about 1000 , of 900 years before Chrift ; therefore it can hardly be fuppofed , from what has been here advanced , that the Greek language was ...
Page xvii
... Greek : for Sammes himself , p . 149 , acknowledges , " that the Saronides ( fo called from Saron ) were but another name for the Druids , as appeareth by the derivation of their name from Eagans , being the fame with Agus , quercus ...
... Greek : for Sammes himself , p . 149 , acknowledges , " that the Saronides ( fo called from Saron ) were but another name for the Druids , as appeareth by the derivation of their name from Eagans , being the fame with Agus , quercus ...
Page xviii
... Greek name , as all our etymologifts do allow , the Greeks must have been acquainted with this ifland ( I do not fay by what means , nor at what time ) for ages immemorial before the Trojan war ; which will carry us up to at leaft 1796 ...
... Greek name , as all our etymologifts do allow , the Greeks must have been acquainted with this ifland ( I do not fay by what means , nor at what time ) for ages immemorial before the Trojan war ; which will carry us up to at leaft 1796 ...
Page xix
... Greek tongue , which was undoubtedly spoken very early on this island . The people then , who very early vifited this country , having been Phenicians and Greeks ; and thofe philofophers who were established here by Bladud having been ...
... Greek tongue , which was undoubtedly spoken very early on this island . The people then , who very early vifited this country , having been Phenicians and Greeks ; and thofe philofophers who were established here by Bladud having been ...
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Æol alfo alſo antient apud atque autem becauſe Belg Cæfar Cafaub Celtic Celts Chrift Clel commonly written confequently Gr contraction defcended derived derived à dialect dicitur effe elfe elſe enim etiam etym etymol expreffion faid fame root fays fays Skinn feems feen fenfe fhall fhew fhould fignifies fince firft firſt fo called fome fometimes fortaffe French ftill fuch funt fuppofe Gall Gauls Græcis Greek hæc Hefych himſelf hinc Iceland ifland Ital itſelf Junius language Latin likewife mallem Mizraim moſt muſt nifi obferves omnia origin perfon perhaps potius prefent quæ quafi quam quia quòd reafon Revd rived Romans Samothes Saxon ſays ſeems Skinn Skinn."-but Skinner tamen Teut thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe tranfpofition uſed vel à verb Verft Verftegan Voff Voffius whence word write
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