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... illustrations of the practical difficulty of attaining it . For instance , he quotes a passage where I say , " On Brent Knoll , near Athelney , in Somersetshire , is a camp which tradition ascribes to Alfred , and near the foot of.
... illustrations of the practical difficulty of attaining it . For instance , he quotes a passage where I say , " On Brent Knoll , near Athelney , in Somersetshire , is a camp which tradition ascribes to Alfred , and near the foot of.
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... instances the original import of such names has faded away , or has become disguised in the lapse of ages ; nevertheless , the primeval meaning may be recoverable , and whenever it is recovered we have gained a symbol that may prove ...
... instances the original import of such names has faded away , or has become disguised in the lapse of ages ; nevertheless , the primeval meaning may be recoverable , and whenever it is recovered we have gained a symbol that may prove ...
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... instances the original import of such names has faded away , or has become disguised in the lapse of ages ; nevertheless , the primeval meaning may be recoverable , and whenever it is recovered we have gained a symbol that may prove ...
... instances the original import of such names has faded away , or has become disguised in the lapse of ages ; nevertheless , the primeval meaning may be recoverable , and whenever it is recovered we have gained a symbol that may prove ...
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... instances are many - the names of places become available as the beacon - lights of geologic history . In truth , there are instances in which local epochs at which the Celtic , Romance , Sclavonic , and Teutonic families separated from ...
... instances are many - the names of places become available as the beacon - lights of geologic history . In truth , there are instances in which local epochs at which the Celtic , Romance , Sclavonic , and Teutonic families separated from ...
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... instance of what we may call the ethnolo- gical import of names . The chief value of the science of geographical etymology consists in the aid which it is thus able to give us in the determination of obscure eth- nological questions ...
... instance of what we may call the ethnolo- gical import of names . The chief value of the science of geographical etymology consists in the aid which it is thus able to give us in the determination of obscure eth- nological questions ...
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Adelung ancient name Anglo-Saxon Arabic bears the name Belloguet Brittany called Cape Celtic names Celts century coast colony conquest Cornwall corruption counties Cumberland Cymric Danes Danish denotes derived Deut Deutschen Devon Diefenbach Diez district Domesday Donaldson England English English Commonwealth Erse Essays Essex Etym etymology Europe Förstemann France French Gadhelic Gaelic German Gesch Glück Gough's Camden Grimm Herodotus hill Hist History Iceland Indo-Europ island Isle Italy Kelt Kemble Kent Kings Lancashire land Landnamabok language Lappenberg Latham Latin Lincolnshire Lond London Max Müller means Mone mountain Movers Müller Namen Norfolk Normandy Norse names North Northmen Norwegian Orig original Ortsnamen Palgrave patronymics Philolog Phoenician Pictet Picts Pott probably race river river-names Roman Rome root Saints Sanskrit Scandinavian Sclavonic Scotland settlement shire Spain Street suffix Suffolk supra Sussex Teutonic town tribes valley village village-names Wales Welsh word Yorkshire Zeitschrift Zeuss
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Page 28 - Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death...
Page 28 - ... two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could...
Page 25 - Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a souldier, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testifie he was. The same Monday night, about twelve of the clocke, or not long after, the Frigat being ahead of us in the Golden Hinde, suddenly her lights were out, whereof as it were in a moment we lost the sight, and withall our watch cryed, the Generall was cast away, which was too true. For in that moment, the Frigat was devoured and swallowed up of the Sea.
Page 25 - Munday the ninth of September, in the afternoone, the Frigat was neere cast away, oppressed by waves, yet at that time recovered: and giving foorth signes of joy, the Generall sitting abaft with a booke in his hand, cried out unto us in the Hind (so oft as we did approch within hearing) We are as neere to heaven by sea as by land.
Page 29 - The Honour of a London Prentice, being an account of his matchless manhood and brave adventures done in Turkey, and by what means he married the king's daughter...
Page 95 - And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter: which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. 13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.
Page 15 - September, in the afternoon, the frigate was near cast away, oppressed by waves, yet at that time recovered ; and giving forth signs of joy, the General, sitting abaft with a book in his hand, cried out to us in the Hind, so oft as we did approach within hearing, We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
Page 25 - We are as near to Heaven by sea as by land', reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a soldier resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was.
Page 410 - Two noble Earls, whom if I quote, Some folks might call me Sinner ; The one invented half a coat ; The other half a dinner.
Page 249 - To establish the point that the Picts, or the nation, whatever was its name, that held central Scotland, was Cymric, not Gaelic, we may refer to the distinction already mentioned between Ben and Pen.