The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Volum 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 sider |
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... tell each other the adventures they had encountered , and the marvels they had seen - the one set discoursing of the forests they had penetrated , the rugged mountains they had scrambled over , the barbarians they had fought ; while the ...
... tell each other the adventures they had encountered , and the marvels they had seen - the one set discoursing of the forests they had penetrated , the rugged mountains they had scrambled over , the barbarians they had fought ; while the ...
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... telling all he knew . Tacitus did not write to instruct the world about the Caledonians , but to create a sensation ... tell us something about the tongue in which the leader of the barbarians spoke , or even his name , and the name of ...
... telling all he knew . Tacitus did not write to instruct the world about the Caledonians , but to create a sensation ... tell us something about the tongue in which the leader of the barbarians spoke , or even his name , and the name of ...
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... tell him that Tacitus wrote not Grampius , but Groupius ( p . 194 ) . His reliance on the accuracy of this altered reading is all the more emphatic that the recent origin of the term Grampian seems not to have been known to him . He ...
... tell him that Tacitus wrote not Grampius , but Groupius ( p . 194 ) . His reliance on the accuracy of this altered reading is all the more emphatic that the recent origin of the term Grampian seems not to have been known to him . He ...
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... tell with absolute scientific certainty the native word from which the name was latinised . But to clear the path of history it is necessary to sweep away such conclu- sions , along with a heap of others equally ingenious and equally ...
... tell with absolute scientific certainty the native word from which the name was latinised . But to clear the path of history it is necessary to sweep away such conclu- sions , along with a heap of others equally ingenious and equally ...
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... , or survey of them when completed , we must be content with such in- formation about their progress and completion as the fragments tell us . Perhaps in no other way can one so realise the THE GREAT WALL , A.D. 120-220 . 19.
... , or survey of them when completed , we must be content with such in- formation about their progress and completion as the fragments tell us . Perhaps in no other way can one so realise the THE GREAT WALL , A.D. 120-220 . 19.
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Side 11 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.