Prospectus of a Dictionary of the Language of the Aire Coti, Or, Ancient Irish, Compared with the Language of the Cuti, Or Ancient Persians, with the Hindoostanee, the Arabic, and Chaldean Languages |
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... whose dominion we fee extended from the Indus at least , we may affert , from the most easterly river These extracts , with the comments thereon , were offered to a learned Society in this country , for publication , but the reverend ...
... whose dominion we fee extended from the Indus at least , we may affert , from the most easterly river These extracts , with the comments thereon , were offered to a learned Society in this country , for publication , but the reverend ...
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... whose ancestors were educated in the fame original school with the Brahmins , fuffered not the ardour of Afiatic fuperftition to fubfide , but engrafted upon it the worship of the Tyrian Hercules , and the rites of that ancient nation ...
... whose ancestors were educated in the fame original school with the Brahmins , fuffered not the ardour of Afiatic fuperftition to fubfide , but engrafted upon it the worship of the Tyrian Hercules , and the rites of that ancient nation ...
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... whose ancestry he speaks with great honour , when he is defcribing the expedition of Alexander the Great . Next march'd the Sacæ , fond of pastoral life , Sprung from the Scythic Nomades , who liv'd Amid the plains of Afia , rich in ...
... whose ancestry he speaks with great honour , when he is defcribing the expedition of Alexander the Great . Next march'd the Sacæ , fond of pastoral life , Sprung from the Scythic Nomades , who liv'd Amid the plains of Afia , rich in ...
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... whose altars ftill are known by that name . There are thofe , who ignorant of the language of the country , and of every other tongue , but English , Greek , and Latin , following Fornandes , will bring them from Scandinavia , clothed ...
... whose altars ftill are known by that name . There are thofe , who ignorant of the language of the country , and of every other tongue , but English , Greek , and Latin , following Fornandes , will bring them from Scandinavia , clothed ...
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... whose name I do not recollect , afferts that the French brought this emblem from the East , on their return from the Crufades . If this be true , they may have seen such a sceptre in the Eaft , which an Arab might have explained by ...
... whose name I do not recollect , afferts that the French brought this emblem from the East , on their return from the Crufades . If this be true , they may have seen such a sceptre in the Eaft , which an Arab might have explained by ...
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affertion Afia Aire Coti Aire-Coti alfo Allod alphabet alſo altar ancient Iriſh Arabic Armenia athair becauſe Bochart Brahmins Brehon Laws Budh Buxt called Chaldæan Chaldee Coti cuſtoms dæmon Daghda defcended deity derived dialect diſcovered Draoi Egypt Egyptian Engliſh eſt facred faid fame fays fervile fhepherds fhew fhip fignifies fire firſt fome fometimes fpeech fuch fuit fynonimous Greeks Hebrew hence Hercules Hindooſtanee hiſtory horſe houſe Indian Indo-Scythæ Indo-Scythians inhabitants Iran Ireland Iriſh Iriſh hiſtory Irish language iſland king language learned letters moſt muſt nomen O'Brien obferves Ogham old Iriſh origin pagan paradife Pehlvi Perfian Phoenicians prefixed preſent preſerved prieſt pudendum Puranas quæ quod radix reaſon religion Sanfcrit ſays ſcience Scoti Scythians ſhall ſhip ſhould Spain ſpeak ſtone ſtudy Syria thefe themſelves theſe thigh thofe thoſe tranflated tree tribe underſtand uſed Weſtern whence whofe Wilford word worſhip Zend Zoroafter
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Page x - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Page vi - Mofaical hiftory : for before the difpctfion we read of no city but Babel ; nor could there well be more, while all mankind were yet in a body together ; but when Nimrod...
Page xlii - TUSHT to have been loft, and its place fupplied by a recent compilation) I had no inducement, though I had an opportunity, to learn what remains of thofe ancient languages ; but I often converfed on them with my friend BAHMAN, and both of us were convinced after full confideration, that the Zend bore a ftrong refemblance to Sanfcrit, and the Pablavi to Arabick.
Page 26 - The book was then clofed, and reftored to its place at the altar; and the people being feated as before, two men entered, bearing a large iron caldron, called a curray, juft taken from the fire, and placed it in the center of the hall upon a low ftool.
Page xlix - Jannat, or the garden ; and sometimes they call it, with an addition, Jannat al Ferdaws, the garden of paradise ; Jannat Aden, the garden of Eden, (though they generally interpret the word Eden, not according to its acceptation in Hebrew, but according to its meaning in their own tongue, wherein it signifies a settled or perpetual habitation...
Page lxx - ... places. Neither is the genius of the commonalty confined to this kind of learning alone ; for I saw a poor man, near Black-stones, who had a tolerable notion of calculating the EPACTS, GOLDEN NUMBER, DOMINICAL LETTER, THE MOON'S PHASES, and THE ECLIPSES, although he had never been taught to read English.
Page 4 - ... at that time, to exprefs all the thoughts of man's heart, and to convince the hearers of any truth whatfoever, in either a literary or a religious matter. And this blindnefs of the reformers with regard to their uniformly praying and preaching in...
Page 26 - This argha, as a type of the adhara-sacti, or power of conception, excited and vivified by the linga, or Phallus, we cannot but suppose to be one and the same with the ship Argo, which was built, according to Orpheus, by Juno and Pallas, and according to Appolonius, by Pallas and Argus at the instance of Juno : the Yoni, as it is usually pronounced, nearly resembles the name of the principal Hetruscan goddess...