 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 540 pages
...both so well ascertained and so complete as to promise entertainment and instruction to the reader. ALL ancient writers agree in representing the first inhabitants of Britain as a tribe of the Gauls or Celts, who peopled that island from the neighbouring continent. Their language was the... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 408 pages
...country then we must look for many of the facts to be related.* " All ancient writers," says Mr. Hume, '-agree in representing the first inhabitants of Britain as a tribe of the Gaul ar CeliK. who peopled the island from the neighboring continent."" Like their brethren on... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1824 - 568 pages
...Lords .... 478 THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAP.I. The Britons — Romany — Saxons — The Heptarchy. ALL ancient writers agree in representing the first inhabitants of Britain as a tribe of the Gauls or Celts, who peopled that island from the neighbouring continent. Their language was the... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - England - 1825 - 480 pages
...both so well ascertained and so complete, as to promise entertainment and instruction to the reader. All ancient writers agree in representing the first inhabitants of Britain as a tribe of the Gauls or Celtse, who peopled that island from the neighbouring continent. Their language was the... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1827 - 546 pages
...the History. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAP. I. The Britons — Romans — Saxons — The Heptarchy. ALL ancient writers agree in representing the first inhabitants of Britain as a tribe of the Gauls or Celts, who peopled that island from the neighbouring continent. Their language was the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - World history - 1832 - 218 pages
...ships float upon every ocean, and may be seen in almost every port. CHAP. II. ENGLAND.— CONTINUED. 1. All ancient writers agree in representing the first inhabitants of Britain as a tribe of the Gauls or Celtae, who peopled that island from the neighboring continent. Their London ? 14. What... | |
 | John Sykes - Durham (England : County) - 1833 - 452 pages
...references in the Indexes may correspond. LOCAL RECORDS ; OR, HISTORICAL REGISTER OF REMARKABLE EVENTS. ALL ancient writers agree in representing the first inhabitants of Britain as a tribe of the Gauls or Celtic, who peopled that island from the neighbouring continent. The Britons are stated... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - History, General - 1835 - 320 pages
...can never be considered as a proof of their relation to each other : and there is no opinion of the origin of nations, however whimsical or ridiculous,...government, the same religion and language, as among the Celtoe on the continent. They were divided into many small nations or tribes, unconnected with and... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1835 - 324 pages
...can never be considered as a proof of their relation to each other : and there is no opinion of the origin of nations, however whimsical or ridiculous,...government, the same religion and language, as among the Celtae on the continent. They were divided into many small nations or tribes, unconnected with and... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - World history - 1839 - 328 pages
...can never be considered as a proof of their relation to each other : and there is no opinion of the origin of nations, however whimsical or ridiculous,...government, the same religion and language, as among the Celtae on the continent. They were divided into many small nations or tribes, unconnected with and... | |
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Celtae, who peopled that island from the neighbouring continent. Their language was the same, their manners, their government, their superstition; varied only by those small differences, which time or a communication with the bordering nations must necessarily... 
