| Ely Hargrove - 1809 - 448 pages
...well as invisible. To a person, stationed on this side, the voice of another, placed at the mouth> or lower extremity of the cylinder, sounds most dismally...which," says Toland, " the kings of Ireland used to be inaugurated, in the times of heathenism, on the hill of Taralr." Which, being enclosed in a wooden... | |
| John Britton, John Hodgson - 1812 - 1036 pages
...which are internally rugose, were capable of augmenting the sound of the voice, and giving its lone a degree of almost supernatural vehemence and terrible...instruments for the promulgation of oracular decrees."* Here is also, among these chaotic fragments of convulsed nature, a rock of a very singular shape, which... | |
| John Bigland - 1815 - 1038 pages
...tubes, which are internally rugose, were capable of augmenting the sound of the voice, and giving its tone a degree of almost supernatural vehemence and...instruments for the promulgation of oracular decrees."* Here is also, among these chaotic fragments of convulsed nature, a rock of a very singular shape, which... | |
| Brimham rocks - 1845 - 34 pages
...tubes, which are internally rugose, were capable of augmenting the sound of the voice and giving its tone a degree of almost supernatural vehemence and...instruments for the promulgation of oracular decrees." On the south side of the Cannon Rocks, the fancy traces the appearance of two trout's heads ; while... | |
| England - 1848 - 670 pages
...tubes, which are internally rugose, were capable of augmenting the sound of the voice, and giving its tone a degree of almost supernatural vehemence and...occasionally become instruments for the promulgation or oracular decrees.' Here is also, among these chaotic fragments of convulsed nature, a rock of a... | |
| 1851 - 658 pages
...tubes, which are internally rugose, were capable of augmenting the sound of the voice, and giving its tone a degree of almost supernatural vehemence and...occasionally become instruments for the promulgation or oracular decrees.' Here is also, among these chaotic fragments of convulsed nature, a rock of a... | |
| William Grainge - 1863 - 274 pages
...tubes, which are internally rugose, were capable of augmenting the sound of the voice and giving its tone a degree of almost supernatural vehemence and...instruments for the promulgation of oracular decrees. these rocks, could we possess but a firm faith that they were the veritable abodes of Druidism ; and... | |
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