The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People, as Well as a History of the Kingdom, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1841 - Great Britain |
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... Britons before the In- vasion of the Romans dustry · 82 - Section III . - The Government and Laws of Roman Britain CHAP . IV . - History of the National In- CHAP . V. The History of Literature , · Science , and the Fine Arts · • 84 ...
... Britons before the In- vasion of the Romans dustry · 82 - Section III . - The Government and Laws of Roman Britain CHAP . IV . - History of the National In- CHAP . V. The History of Literature , · Science , and the Fine Arts · • 84 ...
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... Britons . * true he does not affirm that different languages were spoken on the coast and in the interior ; but it so happens , that on the subject of language he says nothing whatever in his account of Britain . He informs us , however ...
... Britons . * true he does not affirm that different languages were spoken on the coast and in the interior ; but it so happens , that on the subject of language he says nothing whatever in his account of Britain . He informs us , however ...
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... Britons Asserted ( 1773 ) , The The name Britannia , by which our island was known among the Greeks and Romans , was ... Briton from a Welsh , and , as he conceives , old British , word sig- has , without any view to the establishment of ...
... Britons Asserted ( 1773 ) , The The name Britannia , by which our island was known among the Greeks and Romans , was ... Briton from a Welsh , and , as he conceives , old British , word sig- has , without any view to the establishment of ...
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... Britons . The primitive civilization of Ireland , therefore , whether under the same , or , what is more likely , under a different dominant race , must be sought for in a yet more remote anti- quity . The only structures that have been ...
... Britons . The primitive civilization of Ireland , therefore , whether under the same , or , what is more likely , under a different dominant race , must be sought for in a yet more remote anti- quity . The only structures that have been ...
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... Britons and Gauls is the modern Welsh , which , as we shall presently have occasion to notice more particularly , appears really to be a different language altogether . It may also be remarked that there does not ap- pear to be any ...
... Britons and Gauls is the modern Welsh , which , as we shall presently have occasion to notice more particularly , appears really to be a different language altogether . It may also be remarked that there does not ap- pear to be any ...
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