The History of the Celtic Language: Wherein it is Shown to be Based Upon Natural Principles, And, Elementarily Considered, Contemporaneous with the Infancey of the Human Family ... |
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Adam analogy ancient animal antiquity appellation Arabic Argob barker Bashan Boetia Boii breath Cabala Cabalistic Cabiri called Celta Celtic language Celtic name Celtic term Celts Chaldeans character constellation Cronus Dæmon deity divinity dog-star earth echo Egypt Egyptian emblem English expressive father figure Gaelic Gaul gods Greek hand head heaven Hebrew hence Herodotus hieroglyphic horse ideal meaning imitation instance Irish Japhet Julius Cæsar kble king leading idea letters lion Moses mouth mysteries natural Nile Ogygus onomatopœia oracular original Pagan perhaps person Phoenicians priest primary idea principle pronounced quern radix reader remarkable river root round sacred says Bryant SCOTTISH GAELIC sense signifies solar solar deity species of serpent star stone suppose symbol thee thing thy merchants Titans tongue tribes vibration vowel Welsh whence wings woman word worship writing Zeus
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Page 196 - Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: and join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Page 139 - And when they shall sAy unto you, " Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter : " should not a people seek unto their God ? for the living to the dead ? To the law and to the testimony : if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page v - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 71 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 271 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 150 - How charming is divine philosophy? ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose ; But musical as is Apollo's lutez, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 138 - And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people; and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Page 200 - Fine linen, with broidered work from Egypt, was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail ; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Page 201 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches ; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Page 77 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint : my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.