Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis ...L. White, 1790 |
Términos y frases comunes
Afia aftronomical alfo alphabet alſo ancient Iriſh apud Arab Arabians arbor Armenia becauſe botrus Brehon Laws cæleftial Chald Chaldæan characters Chefs chief Chineſe Colchis conftellation covenant cuſtom defcended derived eaſtern Egyp Egypt Egyptian Egyptian language Egyptiis Eirin expreffed facred faid fame fays feems fettled feudal fhall fhew fhewn fignifies figns firft firſt fo called foldier fome fuch fuiffe fuit funt fuppofed fymbol Greeks Hebrew hence Hercules Herodotus Hift himſelf Hindoftan hiſtory houſe infcription invented Iran Ireland Irifh Iriſh Irish history Irish language iſlands king language learned letters literas Mofes moſt muſt nations nomen numerals obferved Ogam Ogham Ogma origin Perf Perfians Phænician poffeffion prieſts prince quæ quod reaſon repreſented ſcience Scoti Scythæ Scythians ſhall ſtate Strabo Thebais thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Thoth tion tranflated tree tribe ufed uſed vine whence wiſdom word writing
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Página 70 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel ; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah ; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein...
Página 335 - Saviour fays, that it is eafier for a camel to pafs through the eye of a needle ', than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Página 169 - ... double-shaped personages came up out of the sea to land, whose names were Euedocus, Eneugamus, Eneuboulus, and Anementus : afterwards in the time of Euedoreschus appeared another Anodaphus. After these reigned other kings, and last of all Sisithrus : so that in the whole, the number amounted to ten kings, and the term of their reigns to an hundred and twenty sari.
Página 317 - ... inftantly and loudly revolt. When uncommon and great innovations happen in the cuftoms of a country, writers are careful to trace their origin, to fix their introduction, and to obferve their influence. But when circumftances...
Página 316 - ... of a people will generally depend upon the genius of one man. A great monarch will give to the component parts the appearance of one defpotic whole; whilft the approaches to difobedience will ever be proportioned to the weaknefs of adminiftration.
Página 9 - L p. 6. the ancient theology of the country was said to have been described in the Hellenic character and language. This had no relation to the Hellenes of Greece, being as I observed before far prior to that nation.
Página 315 - Our greateft lawyers., hiftorians, and antiquaries, whofe object has been lefs to trace its origin than to mark its influence, have uniformly attributed this great foundation of the jurifprudence of modern Europe to the military policy of the Northern nations ; and feem in general rather to have confidered it as a confequence of thdt fituation, after their conquefts than as exifting previous to their irruptions.
Página 24 - He then proceeds to give a minute but accurate account of the silk-worm and the manner of its spinning, which I omit : and concludes with telling us that the country from whence this commodity comes is an island named Seria, which lies in a recess of the Erythrean Sea.
Página 226 - India, and other eaftern countries, the whole detail of government, from the mod ancient accounts down to the prefent hour, can hardly be defined by any other defcription. We obferve, in general, one Great King, to whom a number of fubordinate princes pay homage and tribute : all deviation from this fyftem feem» ing merely temporary and accU dental.
Página 25 - Strabo, with grammar and have many written records of high antiquity. They have also large collections of poetry ; and even their laws are described in verse, which they say are of six thousand years