The Hibbert LecturesUniversity Press, 1888 |
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Aengus Ailill Aitherne Allobroges ancient Anses Arawn Arianrhod Aryan Balder Balor battle Brythonic Cairbre called Celtic Celtic Zeus Celts cloth Conall Conall Cernach Conchobar Corc Cormac Corpus Poet Cronus Cúchulainn Dagda darkness daughter Diarmait divinity druid Erinn father Fergus Finn Fir Bolg Fomori Four Masters Gailióin Gaulish Gauls genitive goddess gods Goidelic Greek Gwydion Gwyn Hades hand head Heracles Hero Indra inscription instance Ireland Irish island king Kulhwch land Latin latter Lectures Leinster Lleu Llew Llûd Lugaid Mâth meaning meant Medb mentioned Merlin myth mythic mythology night Norse Nuada O'Curry O'Curry's origin Owein poem probably R. B. Mab reference regarded remarkable represented Rig-Veda Roman Skene Stokes stone story Sun-god supposed Táin Taliessin Teutonic tion translation Triads Tuatha Dé Danann Ulster Ultonian Welsh wife Windisch Woden word Zeus
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Page 279 - At, Phoebi nondum patiens, immanis in antro bacchatur vates, magnum si pectore possit excussisse deum ; tanto magis ille fatigat os rabidum, fera corda domans, fingitque premendo.
Page 51 - And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had : and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day.
Page 58 - Magistratus, quae visa sunt, occultant; quaeque esse ex usu judicaverint, multitudini produnt : de republica, nisi per concilium, loqui non conceditur. XXI. Germani multum ab hac consuetudine differunt : nam neque druides habent, qui rebus divinis praesint, neque sacrificiis student. Deorum numero eos solos ducunt, quos cernunt, et quorum aperte opibus juvantur, Solem, et Vulcanum, et Lunam : reliquos ne fama quidem acceperunt.
Page 51 - When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them ; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
Page 53 - But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is Man — arrayed for mutual slaughter, . Yea, Carnage is thy daughter...
Page 50 - Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them : yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also ; and they have even put it among their own stuff.
Page 361 - By this book and by the holy contents thereof, and by the wonderful works that God hath miraculously wrought in heaven above and in...
Page 218 - Druids, for so they call their wi2ards, esteem nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree on which it grows, provided only that the tree is an oak.