History of the Ancient Britons, from the Earliest Period to the Invasion of the Saxons, Volum 1G. Bell, 1847 - 416 sider |
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Side ii
... to the character of a regular detailed history of the Ancient Britons , yet an examination of those which have preceded , will , it is believed , lead the reader to the conclusion , that the subject has never ii PREFACE .
... to the character of a regular detailed history of the Ancient Britons , yet an examination of those which have preceded , will , it is believed , lead the reader to the conclusion , that the subject has never ii PREFACE .
Side iii
John Allen Giles. reader to the conclusion , that the subject has never before been treated so fully , with strict regard to real history , and in exclusion of all fabulous legends . The first notices of Britain are found in the Grecian ...
John Allen Giles. reader to the conclusion , that the subject has never before been treated so fully , with strict regard to real history , and in exclusion of all fabulous legends . The first notices of Britain are found in the Grecian ...
Side 7
... never been able with all my pains to meet with any one who could tell me from his own knowledge , that the farther parts of Europe are sea . " The next writer who mentions the British isles is Aristotle , who wrote about 340 years ...
... never been able with all my pains to meet with any one who could tell me from his own knowledge , that the farther parts of Europe are sea . " The next writer who mentions the British isles is Aristotle , who wrote about 340 years ...
Side 10
... never met with a person who had visited them . But it seems there was a substantial reason for concealing these islands from the knowledge of the Greeks : what this reason was , we learn from Strabo , who wrote four hundred years after ...
... never met with a person who had visited them . But it seems there was a substantial reason for concealing these islands from the knowledge of the Greeks : what this reason was , we learn from Strabo , who wrote four hundred years after ...
Side 20
... never before fought in this way ; nor did they shew the same alacrity and zeal , which in all their battles by land they had hitherto displayed . " When Cæsar saw this , he directed his long 20 HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS . [ CH.II.
... never before fought in this way ; nor did they shew the same alacrity and zeal , which in all their battles by land they had hitherto displayed . " When Cæsar saw this , he directed his long 20 HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT BRITONS . [ CH.II.
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Side 183 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Side 181 - AND Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem ; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Side 185 - For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Side 10 - One of them is desert, but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks, clad in tunics reaching to the feet, girt about the breast and walking with staves, thus resembling the Furies we see in tragic representations.
Side 185 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.
Side 248 - He sets far distant like a meteor, that incloses a spirit of night, when the winds drive it over the heath, and the dark woods are gleaming around.
Side 317 - If, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary town of Glasgow, a race of cannibals has really existed, we may contemplate, in the period of the Scottish history, the opposite extremes of savage and civilized life.
Side 387 - Moreover, having heard of the departure of our friends, and their resolution never to return, they seized, with greater boldness than before, on all the country towards the extreme north, as far as the Wall. To oppose them, there was placed on the heights, a garrison, equally slow to fight, and ill adapted to run away, a useless and panic-struck company, which slumbered away days and nights on their unprofitable watch.
Side 186 - AS I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine...
Side 373 - Christ Himself commanded in their camp. The holy days of Lent were also at hand, and were rendered more religious by the presence of the priests, insomuch that the people being instructed by daily sermons, resorted in crowds to be baptized ; for most of the army desired admission to the saving water ; a church was prepared with boughs for the feast of the resurrection of our Lord, and so fitted up in that martial camp, as if it were in a city. The army advanced, still wet with the baptismal water;...