Vulgar Errors, Ancient and Modern, Attributed as Imports to the Proper Names of the Globe ... Investigating the Origin and Uses of Letters ...: Biblical Long-lost Names--unknown Names of Heathen Gods, of Nations, Provinces, Towns &c. With a Critical Disquisition on Every Station of Richard of Cirencester and Antoninus in Britain ... To which is Added, Richard's Original WorkG. Dyer, 1816 - 230 páginas |
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... instance , to fhew in fome degree from whence this diverfity of languages flowed . Heaven is in Gaelic Neamb . Neamb is partly formed from the root Eamb , which , as the Gaelic Mb is our V , will become Eav . - Under the ar- ticle Eve ...
... instance , to fhew in fome degree from whence this diverfity of languages flowed . Heaven is in Gaelic Neamb . Neamb is partly formed from the root Eamb , which , as the Gaelic Mb is our V , will become Eav . - Under the ar- ticle Eve ...
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... old Celtic words in their trans- lations , which might be former names ; and except in a few instances , I have found no Saxon terms employed in our latest names . Should my claffical , hiftorical , or mythological reader re- ix.
... old Celtic words in their trans- lations , which might be former names ; and except in a few instances , I have found no Saxon terms employed in our latest names . Should my claffical , hiftorical , or mythological reader re- ix.
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... instances may be brought against my principles , but nothing can invalidate their general tenour . Of modern etymologifts , Mr. Bryant ftands foremost in the names of foreign places , whose scheme we muft here shortly examine . The ...
... instances may be brought against my principles , but nothing can invalidate their general tenour . Of modern etymologifts , Mr. Bryant ftands foremost in the names of foreign places , whose scheme we muft here shortly examine . The ...
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... instances , misun- derftood . From what I have fhewn in this book , it is demonftrable , that old names are composed of monofyllabic words . Roots begin chiefly with vowels , and end with confonants ; unless they are fingle vowels . The ...
... instances , misun- derftood . From what I have fhewn in this book , it is demonftrable , that old names are composed of monofyllabic words . Roots begin chiefly with vowels , and end with confonants ; unless they are fingle vowels . The ...
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... instance , and may not be fo in this , I fhall observe , that As in Afia , may come from Ais , an head ; and fo Afia may imply accor- dingly . But the word Galatia feems not to favor fuch an ex- pofition : For Gal in this word is head ...
... instance , and may not be fo in this , I fhall observe , that As in Afia , may come from Ais , an head ; and fo Afia may imply accor- dingly . But the word Galatia feems not to favor fuch an ex- pofition : For Gal in this word is head ...
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Ægypte affert alfo alſo ancient anſwer Antonine appellations authors becauſe Belga Bibracte Bibroci border land Bremenium Brigantes Brittania called camp Celts changes Cumari derived deſcribed diminutive diſtance Durnovaria Eboracum etymons faid fays fea bead features of nature feems fhall fhew fhewn fignifications firft firſt fituation fome fometimes ftated ftream fubject fuch fuppofed fyllable fynonymous Gaelic hæc hath head land Hebrew Hembury hence hiftory houſe imply the water incloſed inftances infulæ iſland Iter lake letter little fea Londinium means border means head means the fame means the fea Menapii miles Moridunum moſt muft muſt old names plain Plutarch poftfixes prefix preſent pronounced Ptolemy quæ reaſon rendered Richard ridge river road Roman Romani roots ſaid Saxons ſays ſea ſeems Segontiaci ſhould Spurn Head ſtated ſtation ſuppoſed territory thefe theſe names thoſe town tranflated ufque underſtood uſed Venta vero water border water head word written
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Página 7 - He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape, or magnitude, but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again; but having too many objects to learn at once, he forgot many of them : and (as he said) at first he learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day.
Página 6 - ... a glass of broken jelly, where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci; wherefore the shape of an object in such a case cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may.
Página 8 - And now being lately couched of his other eye, he says, that objects at first appeared large to this eye, but not so large as they did at first to the other ; and looking upon the same object with both eyes, he thought it looked about twice as large as with the first couched eye only, but not double that we can any way discover.
Página 7 - ... could look bigger. Before he was couched, he expected little advantage from seeing, worth...
Página 8 - Before he was couched, he expected little advantage from seeing, worth undergoing an operation for, except reading and writing; for he said, he thought he could have no more pleasure in walking abroad than he had in the garden, which he could do safely and readily.
Página 8 - A year after first seeing, being carried upon Epsom Downs, and observing a large prospect, he was exceedingly delighted with it, and called it a new kind of seeing.
Página 8 - But his gratitude to his operator he could not conceal, never seeing him for some time without tears of joy in his eyes, and other marks of affection ; and, if he did not happen to come at any time when he was expected, he would be so grieved that he could not forbear crying at his disappointment.
Página 7 - One particular only (though it may appear trifling) I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat, and which the dog, he was...
Página 7 - We thought he foon knew what pictures reprefented, which were fhewed to him; but we found afterwards we were miftaken ; for, about two months after he was couched, he difcovered at once, they reprefented folid bodies, when to that time he...
Página 8 - And even blindnefs he obferved, had this advantage, that he could go any where hi the dark much better than thofe who can fee; and after he had feen, he did not foon lofe this quality,, nor defire a light to go about the houfe in the night. He faid every new object was a new delight, and the...