Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, Volume 3Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1841 - Anthropology |
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... Irish traditions .... .... 140 Paragraph 3. Critical remarks on the Bardic stories and on the Monkish an- nals of Ireland ... Paragraph 4. Concluding observations on the history - Probable origin of the Irish race .... 147 ... 149 ...
... Irish traditions .... .... 140 Paragraph 3. Critical remarks on the Bardic stories and on the Monkish an- nals of Ireland ... Paragraph 4. Concluding observations on the history - Probable origin of the Irish race .... 147 ... 149 ...
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... Irish , the Manx , and the Scottish Gaelic , which last is supposed to have been spread from Ireland into Scotland some centuries after the Christian era , belong to the second division . The Irish and British languages cannot with ...
... Irish , the Manx , and the Scottish Gaelic , which last is supposed to have been spread from Ireland into Scotland some centuries after the Christian era , belong to the second division . The Irish and British languages cannot with ...
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... Irish , and they appeal for proof to an old tradition , which derives the population of Ireland in part from a colony termed by the national Irish poems Fir Bolg or Viri Belgæ . Others , per- suaded that the Belgic language was not so ...
... Irish , and they appeal for proof to an old tradition , which derives the population of Ireland in part from a colony termed by the national Irish poems Fir Bolg or Viri Belgæ . Others , per- suaded that the Belgic language was not so ...
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... Irish or Gaelic language words which he conjectures to be etymons for the names of one class , and in the Welsh words which , with a little etymological ingenuity , will serve for epithets of the other set of tribes . Thus the Boii are ...
... Irish or Gaelic language words which he conjectures to be etymons for the names of one class , and in the Welsh words which , with a little etymological ingenuity , will serve for epithets of the other set of tribes . Thus the Boii are ...
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... Irish , would never have been known to be kindred dialects . These races do not at all comprehend each other in conversation . It is only by an examination of grammatical analogies and of particular relations in the vocabulary of the ...
... Irish , would never have been known to be kindred dialects . These races do not at all comprehend each other in conversation . It is only by an examination of grammatical analogies and of particular relations in the vocabulary of the ...
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