The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations Proved by a Comparison of Their Dialects with the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, and Teutonic Languages: Forming a Supplement to Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind

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Houlston and Wright, 1857 - 387 pagine

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Pagina 112 - Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur.
Pagina 365 - OE throw. Some of the above terms may have been introduced in the ninth and following centuries by the Northmen; but many of them occur in the oldest known monuments of the language; they are also accompanied by many compounds and derivatives, which is commonly regarded as a proof of long naturalization ; and are moreover current in Connaught, where the Danes never had any permanent settlement. One...
Pagina 154 - Scottis, ea solum condicione dare consenserunt, ut ubi res perueniret in dubium, magis de feminea regum prosapia quam de masculina regem sibi eligerent : quod usque hodie apud Pictos constat esse seruatum.
Pagina 286 - ... regiminis, not in apposition or concord : in other words, they are not nominatives, but oblique cases, precisely such as are affixed to various prepositions. For example, the second person plural does not end with the nominative chwi, but with ech, wch, och, ych, which last three forms are also found coalescing with various prepositions — iwch, to you ; ynoch, in you ; wrthych, through you.
Pagina 143 - ... would have been almost impossible to have made such a fact accurately understood. Yet it is also true, that if any material difference had existed between the Cimbri and the Gauls of Gaul, such must have been familiarly known in Rome, since slaves of both sorts must there have been common.
Pagina 42 - The mythology of the Celtae," he adds, "resembled, in all probability, that of the Hottentots, or others the rudest savages, as the Celtae anciently were, and are little better at present, being incapable of any progress in society.
Pagina 128 - Prisco Tarquinio Romae regnante, Celtarum, quae pars Galliae tertia est, penes Bituriges summa imperii fuit: ii regem Celtico dabant. Ambigatus is fuit...
Pagina 39 - Sclavonian dialects, and the Lettish or Lithuanian, which are in some respects intermediate between the former, stand nearly in the same relation to the ancient language of India. Several intermediate languages, as the Zend and other Persian dialects, the Armenian and the Ossete, which is one of the various idioms spoken by the nations of Caucasus, have been supposed by writers, who have examined their structure and etymology, to belong to the same stock.
Pagina 81 - Natio est omnis Gallorum admodum dedita religionibus, atque ob eam causam, qui sunt adfecti gravioribus morbis quique in proeliis periculisque versantur, aut pro victimis homines immolant aut se immolaturos vovent administrisque ad ea sacrificia druidibus utuntur, quod, pro vita hominis nisi hominis vita reddatur, non posse deorum immortalium numen placari arbitrantur, publiceque eiusdem generis habent instituta sacrificia.
Pagina 81 - Alii immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.

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