The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion

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Page 48 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves, but Delia's self In gait...
Page 75 - Act for the Better Propagation and Preaching of the Gospel in Wales (1650-3)", and under the Ordnance of August 1654.
Page 137 - ... persons to contribute toward the erecting of Schools in these Cities, and the parts adjacent, for the instruction of such poor Children in Reading, Writing, and in the Catechism, whose Parents or Relations are not able to afford them the ordinary means of Education; and as they look upon this to be the most effectual method to train up the poorer sort in sobriety and y e knowledge of Christian Principles...
Page 22 - What did not clash with the Word of God in the written law and in the New Testament, and with the consciences of...
Page 175 - School, which is for the Education of Poor Children in the Rules and Principles of the Christian Religion as professed and taught in the Church of England...
Page 47 - A'r Fenai fawr heb drai gan faint y gwyar !" Gwell f uasai genym yr hen f arddoniaeth f el yr oedd : — "A Menai heb drai o drallanw gwaedryar A lliw gwyar gwyr yn heli." Nid oes dim yn gystal ei flas wedi ei ail dwymno. Tra bo'r gwynt yn hepian, goddefer i mi wneyd sylw neu ddau parth arddull yr awdwr. Mae'n amlwg ei fod yn edmygydd mawr o bethau clasurol, a'i fod wedi darllen Homer a Vyrsil yn Saesneg. Dyna, mae'n debyg, barodd iddo 'sgrifenu "Mona", "Arfonia", "Hibernia", "Lloegria".
Page 28 - ... imploring grace and discernment for the king to amend the laws and customs of Cymru.' It goes on to say that, ' by the advice of these wise men, the king retained some of the old laws, others he amended, others he abolished entirely, establishing new laws in their place...
Page 13 - McEgan, and whoever reads it let him offer a prayer of mercy for my soul. This is Christmas night, and on this night I place myself under the protection of the King of Heaven and Earth, beseeching that he will bring me and my friends safe through the plague.' " Hugh wrote this in his own father's book in the year of the great plague.

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