 | John Charnock - Naval architecture - 1801 - 956 pages
...Britain and Ireland were gradually peopled from the adjacent continent of Gaul. From the coast of Kent, to the extremity of Caithness and Ulster, the memory...preserved, in the perpetual resemblance of language, of religion, and of manners ; and the peculiar characters of the British tribes might be naturally ascribed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 502 pages
...Great-Britain and Ireland were gradually peopled from the adjacent continent of Gaul. From the coast of Kent, to the extremity of Caithness and Ulster, the memory...preserved, in the perpetual resemblance of language, of religion, and of manners : and the peculiar characters of the British tribes, might be naturally ascribed... | |
 | Walter Thom - Aberdeen (Scotland) - 1811 - 742 pages
...and Ireland were " gradually peopled from the adjacent Continent of " Gaul. From the coast of Kent to the extremity of " Caithness and Ulster, the memory...origin " was distinctly preserved, in the perpetual resem" blance of language, religion, and of manners. f" The remaining dialects of the Celtic language,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 460 pages
...with their present condition, gratp at any visioni of their past or future glory. VOL. IV. U CHAP. the memory of a Celtic origin was distinctly preserved, in the perpetual resemblance of language, of religion, and of manners : and the peculiar characters of the British tribes, might be naturally ascribed... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1821 - 408 pages
...neighbouring Continents, the aborigines of Britain must have passed over from Gaul. From the coast of Kent to the extremity of Caithness and Ulster, the memory of a Celtic origin was distinctly preserved for many ages, in the perpetual resemblance of language, religion, and manners j and the peculiar character... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1825 - 538 pages
...deduced from evidences curious in themselves, and decisive in their inferences. From the coast of Kent to the extremity of Caithness and Ulster, the memory...preserved in the perpetual resemblance of language, religion, and of manners. The CeltasJ were undoubtedly the aboriginal people of western Europe throughout... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1825 - 512 pages
...continent of Gaul. From the coast of Kent, to the extremity of Caithness and Ulster, the memory of 9. Celtic origin was distinctly preserved in the perpetual resemblance of language, of religion, and of manners; and the peculiar characters of the British tribes, might be naturally ascribed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pages
...Britain and Ireland were gradually peopled from the adjacent continent of Gaul. From the coast of Kent, to the extremity of Caithness and Ulster, the memory...preserved, in the perpetual resemblance of language, of religion, and of manners ; and the peculiar characters of the British tribes might be naturally ascribed... | |
 | Alexander Stewart - 1826 - 506 pages
...primitive inhabitants of Europe. " From the coast of Kent," says Gibbon, " to the extremity of Caithness, the memory of a Celtic origin was distinctly preserved in the perpetual resemblance of language, religion, and manners." 2. Great Britain and Ireland were peopled from the adjacent continent of Gaul.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1846 - 604 pages
...people dissatisfied with their present condition, grasp at any visions of their past or future glory. the extremity of Caithness and Ulster, the memory...preserved, in the perpetual resemblance of language, of religion, and of manners : and the peculiar characters of the British tribes might be naturally ascribed... | |
| |
The present age is satisfied with the simple and rational opinion, that the islands of Great Britain and Ireland were gradually peopled from the adjacent continent of Gaul. From the coast of Kent to the extremity of Caithness and Ulster, the memory of... 
