Critical Dissertations on the Origin, Antiquities, Language, Government, Manners, and Religion, of the Ancient Caledonians: Their Posterity the Picts, and the British and Irish ScotsBoulter Grierson, 1768 - 382页 |
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Adamnan againſt ages almoſt anceſtors ancient antiquaries antiquity Attacotti authority barbarous Bards Bede biſhop Britiſh Britons Cæfar Caledonians called Cambden Celtes Celtic Celtic nations Chriftians Columba compofitions confequently confiderable courſe cuſtom defcended divifion Ebudes Engliſh eſtabliſhed etymon faid fame feems fennachies fent fettled feveral fhall fhould fignifies fimilarity firft firſt fome fovereign ftate ftones ftrangers fubject fuch fuppofed fyftem Galic Gaul Germans Godred greateſt Haco Hebridian Hift hiftorians Highlanders himſelf hiſtory honour ifles inhabitants Ireland Iriſh iſland Iſles King King of Scots kingdom language laſt learned leaſt likewife Magnus moft monarchs moſt muſt nations North Britain Norway Norwegian obferved occafion Orcad paffage perfon Pictish Picts poet poffeffed pofterity preferved Princes reaſon reign reſpective Romans Saxons Scotland Scots Scottiſh ſeveral ſmall Solinus ſome Somerled ſtate Strabo Tacitus thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tion Torfæus underſtood uſed Weſtern whofe word writers
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第205页 - Jncipe fi quid habes : et me fecere poetam " Pierides, funt et mihi carmina : me quoque dicunt. " Vatem paftores, fed non ego credulus illis : " Nam neque adhuc Varo videor nee dicere Cinna " Digna, fed argutos interftrepere anfer olores *." SERVIUS, and fome other commentators of great reputation, have done a manifeft injury to this paflage.
第57页 - Pictifh tongue remained in his time, if it differed at all from the Galic of the Scots. The arguments which may be drawn from the archdeacon's teftimony is not more unfavourable to Buchanan's hypothefis than it is to that of the learned Cambden.
第115页 - Highlanders are as perfect ftrangers to the national name of Scot, as they are to that of Parthian or Arabian. If a common Highlander Is a'&ed, of what country he is, he immediately anfwers, that he is an Albanicb, or Gael.
第151页 - Caledonia. was never questioned on this head ; and a belief has ever since obtained that the Picts were a different race from the Gauls who possessed the southern parts of Britain.
第xxiii页 - Attacotti, a warlike race of mien, in conjunction with the Pidts and Scots, laid wafte the Roman province in Britain, in the reign of Valentinian. St. Jerome gives a very extraordinary character of the Attacotti : " In my youth," faith the faint, " I faw in Gaul, the Attacotti, a Britifh people, feeding upon human bodies.
第115页 - Pifls and Scots were impofed on the two nations into which the Caledonians were divided, fome time before the Romans deferted Britain, by the malevolence of their neighbours to the South, or rofe from the animofities which fubfifted between themfelves.
第192页 - ... reported by historians. Thus old writers on the history of Scotland tell us that King Evenus III., contemporary with Augustus, made a law by which he and his successors in the throne were authorised to lie with every bride, if a woman of quality, before her husband could approach her ; and in consequence of this law the great men of the nation had a power of the same kind over the brides of their vassals and servants. The law was strictly observed throughout the kingdom, and was only discontinued...
第116页 - Celtic language, of which fo many different " diale&s were diffufed over all the European nations of " the Weft and North, and, let me add, the Scythians of Afia, the vocable Alp, or Alba, fignifies high. OF the Alpes...
第vi页 - The fennachies and fileas of Ireland made then a property of the Scots of Britain, and, fecure of not being contradicted by an illiterate, and I may fay, an irreligious race of men, afTumed to themfelves the dignity of being the mother-nation.