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... extended backwards to 36,525 years , those of Chaldea for 432,000 years . Bryant clearly shews that the Egyptians mistook days for years . ( Ancient Mythology , Vol . IV . , pp . 436-8 . ) With regard to the chronology of the Chaldeans ...
... extended backwards to 36,525 years , those of Chaldea for 432,000 years . Bryant clearly shews that the Egyptians mistook days for years . ( Ancient Mythology , Vol . IV . , pp . 436-8 . ) With regard to the chronology of the Chaldeans ...
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... extend to the beginning of time , have been written since the introduction of Christianity . THE SAXON FABLES . The early English pagan kings traced back their pedigrees to Woden , the deity of the northern nations . After the intro ...
... extend to the beginning of time , have been written since the introduction of Christianity . THE SAXON FABLES . The early English pagan kings traced back their pedigrees to Woden , the deity of the northern nations . After the intro ...
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... extended from 330 B.C. to 403 A.C. , is not quoted by any genuine writer before the year 1291 , nor is there any sovereign king of the Scots mentioned before Fergus , the son of Erc , who assumed sovereignty in Argyle about the year 503 ...
... extended from 330 B.C. to 403 A.C. , is not quoted by any genuine writer before the year 1291 , nor is there any sovereign king of the Scots mentioned before Fergus , the son of Erc , who assumed sovereignty in Argyle about the year 503 ...
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... extended from the Mull of Kintyre indefinitely north- ward . Cosmo Innes says : " We may possibly recognise the sounds of a few rivers and friths in Ptolemy , but placed all confusedly ; while his names of the tribes and of their cities ...
... extended from the Mull of Kintyre indefinitely north- ward . Cosmo Innes says : " We may possibly recognise the sounds of a few rivers and friths in Ptolemy , but placed all confusedly ; while his names of the tribes and of their cities ...
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... extended from the Clyde and Forth to the Solway and Tyne . The following is an abridgement of Pinkerton's description of the Walls : - I. In the year 81 Agricola , as Tacitus informs us , raised a line of forts between the firths of ...
... extended from the Clyde and Forth to the Solway and Tyne . The following is an abridgement of Pinkerton's description of the Walls : - I. In the year 81 Agricola , as Tacitus informs us , raised a line of forts between the firths of ...
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Page 190 - Know ye that we have given, granted and, by this our present Charter, confirmed to our...
Page 267 - The exhortations of the general diffused new vigour through the ranks, and the men, by mutual reproaches, inflamed each other to deeds of valour. They felt the disgrace of yielding to a troop of women, and a band of fanatic priests ; they advanced their standards, and rushed on to the attack with impetuous fury. The Britons perished in the flames which they themselves had kindled.
Page 228 - After the materials were collected," says he, " the next labour was to compare the different editions, to strike off several parts that were manifestly spurious,! to bring together some episodes that appeared to have a relation to one another, though repeated separately, and...
Page 266 - Britons, close embodied and prepared for action. Women were seen rushing through the ranks in wild disorder, their apparel funereal, their hair loose to the wind, in their hands flaming torches, and their whole appearance resembling the frantic rage of the Furies.
Page 237 - Shields sound and warriors fall. As a hundred hammers on the red son of the furnace, so rose, so rung their swords ! Gaul rushed on, like a whirlwind in Ardven. The destruction of heroes is on his sword. Swaran was ' like the fire of the desert in the echoing heath of Gormal ! How can I give to the song the death of many spears ? My ^word rose high, and flamed in the strife of blood.
Page 165 - removed them all from the land of their birth, and scattered them throughout the other districts of Scotland, both beyond the hills and on this side thereof, so that not even a native of that land abode there, and he installed therein his own peaceful people.
Page 167 - Sommerled for the Isles, which were properly his wife's right ; but, as for the lands of Argyle and Kintyre, he would have them restored to himself. Sommerled replied, that he had as good a right to the lands upon the continent as he had to the Isles ; yet...
Page 433 - ... her fathers race. Before the sun should withdraw his beams, she was to cover the spring with a stone, on which sacred and mysterious characters were impressed. One night this was forgot by the unhappy Bera. Overcome with the heat and chace of the day, she was seized with sleep before the usual hour of rest.
Page 236 - As waves, white bubbling over the deep, come swelling, roaring on ; as rocks of ooze meet roaring waves: so foes attacked and fought. Man met with man, and steel with steel. Shields sound, and warriors fall. As a hundred hammers on the red son of the furnace, so rose, so rung their swords!
Page 52 - Gregory sent us baptism, that was in the two and thirtieth year of his reign: and Columba, a masspriest, came to the Picts, and converted them to the faith of Christ: they are dwellers by the northern mountains. And their king gave him the island which is called li [lona]: therein are five hides of land, as men say.