Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

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Clarendon Press, 1907 - 764 pages
 

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Page 256 - But the husband had the power of life and death over his wife, as well as over his children, and the son could not accost his father in public before he was of an age to bear arms. "When the father of a family of high birth dies, his kin assemble, and, if they have any suspicion as to the cause of his...
Page 533 - are four regular passages from the continent to the island, namely, from the " mouths of the Rhine, the Seine, the Loire, and the Garonne
Page 5 - Ye forefathers of the generations, and of our families, and of our kindred, — unto you, the founders of our homes, we utter the gladness of our thanks"?
Page 502 - Limited to examples of furniture actually within the United States and in many instances made here. . .examples which fairly cover the period from the middle of the seventeenth to the middle of the nineteenth centuries. . . Almost every page contains a. . .photograph of some quaint or beautiful heirloom.
Page 150 - In the annexed engraving will be immediately recognized the British zigzag, or the modern Vandyke pattern, which was formed with a labour and exactness almost unaccountable, by thousands of gold rivets, smaller than the smallest pin. The head of the handle, though exhibiting no variety of pattern...
Page 489 - Sand,' we learn from this source, ' has continued its general movement towards the coast, and the area of drying sand has largely increased.
Page 388 - The foregoing list of names and words contains much that is still obscure ; but on the whole it shows that Pictish, so far as regards its vocabulary, is an Indo-European and especially Celtic speech. Its phonetics, so far as we can ascertain them, resemble those of Welsh rather than of Irish.
Page 316 - Beda Androgius— Historiae Ecclesiasticae 1:2, p. 26. In Rerum Britannicarum the name is spelled Androgoius (p. 151) . 47: 17 Cenimagni, Segontiaci, Ancalites, Bibroci, Cassi— Holmes (pp. 346-47) has the following to say about these tribes: " The last three do not reappear in history: they were evidently dependent tribes, and nothing is known about their geographical position except that they lived somewhere in the basin of the Thames, on the west or possibly on the north of the Trinovantian territory...
Page 427 - ... religion assumes the operation of conscious or personal agents, superior to man, behind the visible screen of nature. Obviously...

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