| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 780 pages
...was punished hy honds or death, without their passing sentence ; no plunder taken in war was used hy the captor, until the Druids determined what part they should seclude for themselves. It may he easily supposed that the manners of the people took a tincture from the discipline of their... | |
| H. R. Oswald - 1860 - 278 pages
...appeal. "No laws were instituted by the princes, or assemblies, without their advice and approbation ; no person was punished with bonds or death, without...conquest, to Anglesea, where they were soon followed by tho satellites of despotism. In this Isle, after nobly opposing these foes of liberty, they were defeated... | |
| Manx Society - 1871 - 220 pages
...appeal. No laws were instituted by the princes or assemblies without their advice and approbation ; no person was punished with bonds or death without...fled from the ferocious sword of Roman conquest to Anglesey, where they were soon followed by the satellites of despotism. In this isle, after nobly opposing... | |
| Charles Hulbert - 1840 - 496 pages
...from their judgement there was no appeal. " No laws were instituted by the princes " or assemblies, without their advice and approba" tion ; no person...conferred on those, whose merit might sanction the choice. • Druidism, in its primitive and pure state, may be regarded as an edifice, raised upon the basis... | |
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