Phœnician IrelandLongman & Company Paternoster Row; Joseph Robins, Bride Court, Fleet Street. Dublin: R.M. Timms, Grafton Street; M. Keene & Son, College Green; and F.W. [sic] Wakeman, D'Ollier Street., 1833 - 326 pages |
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afterwards altars amongst ancient Irish antiquity apud Astharte Attacotti autem Baal barony Baxter Belus Bochart Brigantes Brigantine Britain British Britons Cabiri called Canaan Carthaginians celebrated Celtiberia Celtic CHAP Christian coast colony consecrated county Cork county Kerry Cybele deity denominated derived Diodorus Siculus district divine Druids Edetani eorum etiam etymology fire Gaul gods Greek groves hæc Hercules honor Iberi Ibern Iberniæ idol idolatry Ilergetes inhabitants Ireland Irish words island isle King land laud Lord Manapii means mentioned Miledh Milesians Moloch mountain nations native nicians observe Ogygia opinion origin Phoenices Phoenician language Phoenician words poets priests promontory province Ptolemy quæ quibus quod religion river Romans Round Towers sacred sacrifices says Scots Scythians signifies Silures Spain Spaniards Spanish Strabo sunt superstition supposed Syriac temple thing tion town tribe Tuatha vestiges village whence whilst worship writers
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Page 227 - And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Page 149 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 211 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page xi - That ev'n in thy mirth it will steal from thee still. Dear Harp of my Country ! farewell to thy numbers, This sweet wreath of song is the last we shall twine...
Page xxviii - And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 211 - What the sun and light are to this visible world, that are the supreme good and truth, to the intellectual and invisible universe ; and as our corporeal eyes have a distinct perception of objects enlightened by the sun, thus our souls acquire certain knowledge, by meditating on the light of truth which emanates from the Being of beings ; that is the light by which alone our minds can be directed in the path to beatitude.
Page 243 - Needs must thou prove a name most dear and holy To me, a son, a brother, and a friend, A husband, and a father ! who revere All bonds of natural love, and find them all Within the limits of thy rocky shores.
Page 272 - The joy and greatness of its future being? There lives nor form nor feeling in my soul Unborrowed from my country! O divine And beauteous island! thou hast been my sole And most magnificent temple, in the which I walk with awe, and sing my stately songs, Loving the God that made me!
Page 104 - And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun...
Page 134 - Of the which there is one use, amongst them, to keepe their cattle, and to live themselves the most part of the yeare in boolies, pasturing upon the mountaine, and waste wilde places ; and removing still to fresh land, as they have depastured the former.