Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Volum 10Royal Irish Academy, 1867 |
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Side liii - The COUNCIL of the CAMDEN SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several works being alone responsible for the same.
Side 237 - On examining this subterranean wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred yards to the bed of coal : that it branched off into numerous...
Side 2 - Oure, late staind with English blood : With many more, whose names no tongue can tell. All which that day in order seemly good Did on the Thamis attend, and waited well To doe their dueful service, as to them befell.
Side 159 - Joyce was greatly struck with the constant occurrence of the numbers two and three, but the number two is met with more frequently than any other. Many of the triple combinations may have been given in later times in honour of, or with some reference to, the doctrine of the Trinity ; but from whatever cause it may have arisen, " certain it is, that there existed in the minds of the Irish people, a distinctly marked predilection to designate persons or places, where circumstances permitted it, by...
Side 112 - Oriental paganism of which so many relics remain to us. It may be very naturally asked, Have we any evidence of the existence of such a people in Spain? or is there any historic evidence of the state of that country, or of the people inhabiting it, at the remote period claimed for the Gaedhelic invasion ? I think that Strabo provides an answer to so natural a query in his description of the Turdetani and Turduli — a people or peoples inhabiting southern Spain. Hear what he says of them : — '...
Side 237 - ... were found covered with sparry incrustations, which the present workmen do not observe to be deposited in any definite portion of time.
Side 3 - Old father Mole, (Mole hight that mountain gray That walls the northside of Armulla dale ;) He had a daughter fresh as floure of May, Which gave that name unto that pleasant vale; Mulla, the daughter of old Mole, so hight The Nimph, which of that water course has charge...
Side 237 - In short, it was found to be an extensive mine, wrought by a set of people at least as expert in the business as the present generation. Some remains of the tools, and even of the baskets used in the works, were discovered, but in such a decayed state, that on being touched, they immediately crumbled to pieces.
Side 227 - We cannot be too careful not to confound what may be the effect of chance, or idle amusement, with letters or syllabic characters.' Mr. Truter relates that, in. the southern extremity of Africa, among the Betjuanas, he saw children busy in tracing on a rock, with some sharp instrument, characters which bore the most perfect resemblance with the P and the M of the Roman alphabet ; notwithstanding which these rude tribes were perfectly ignorant of writing.
Side 227 - These capricious designs imitate in general the lines of a draught-board, or of a child's game called " morel," and also those cabalistic signs forming triangles, squares, or lozenges, which we see so frequently on the amulets of the natives.' Sir James Simpson's note at page 107 of his work also corroborates this view. ' Three years ago my friend, Dr. Arthur Mitchell, saw the herring fishermen, in a day of idleness, cutting circles with their knives on the face of the rock, without the operators...