Cyclops Christiannus; Or, An Argument to Disprove the Supposed Antiquity of the Stonehenge and Other Megalithic Erections in England Britanny

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J. Petheram, 1849 - 247 sidor
 

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Sida 232 - And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you.
Sida 115 - Bed : and then the mistress and servants cry three times, Briid is come, Briid is welcome. This they do just before going to bed ; and, when they rise in the morning, they look among the ashes, expecting...
Sida 193 - Bdl-tein-day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet in the moors. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake...
Sida 36 - Druids, under the sanction of which names we shelter ourselves whenever we are ignorant and bewildered. But they were the operations of a very remote age ; probably before the time when the Druids, or Celtse, were first known.
Sida 110 - Taught mid thy massy maze their mystic lore: Or Danish chiefs, enrich'd with savage spoil, To victory's idol vast, an unhewn shrine...
Sida 233 - And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
Sida 127 - Heaven reward thee!" "And I will enhance the atonement," said Bendigeid Vran, "for I will give unto thee a caldron, the property of which is, that if one of thy men be slain to-day, and be cast therein, to-morrow he will be as well as ever he was at the best, except that he will not regain his speech.
Sida 115 - The mistress and servants of each family dress a sheaf of oats in women's apparel, put it in a large basket, and lay a wooden club by it, and this they call Briid's Bed ; and the mistress and servants cry three times, ' Briid is come, Briid is welcome !' This they do just before going to bed.
Sida 152 - Come ye near unto me, hear ye this ; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning ; from the time that it was, there am I : and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
Sida 96 - A friar, who had lain all night concealed near the building, hearing the devil's declaration, replied to it by saying, " That is more than thee canst tell;" which put Satan into such a passion, that he snatched up a pillar and hurled it at the friar, with an intention to bruise...

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