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... Tacitus , for example , alleges the superior size and the red hair of the Caledonians of his time as a proof of their Scandinavian origin , and the dark complexions of the Silures , who inha- bited the south of Wales , as making it ...
... Tacitus , for example , alleges the superior size and the red hair of the Caledonians of his time as a proof of their Scandinavian origin , and the dark complexions of the Silures , who inha- bited the south of Wales , as making it ...
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... Tacitus also ( Agric . xi . ) appears to have in his immediate view only the inhabitants of those parts of Britain which are nearest to France , when he describes them as resembling the Gauls in language , religion , & c . + De Bell ...
... Tacitus also ( Agric . xi . ) appears to have in his immediate view only the inhabitants of those parts of Britain which are nearest to France , when he describes them as resembling the Gauls in language , religion , & c . + De Bell ...
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... Tacitus ; and it is to be explained only by supposing either that the seats of the Belgic tribes in Britain had , before their arrival , been in the possession of a Celtic race , or that the Belgians , notwithstanding their German ...
... Tacitus ; and it is to be explained only by supposing either that the seats of the Belgic tribes in Britain had , before their arrival , been in the possession of a Celtic race , or that the Belgians , notwithstanding their German ...
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... Tacitus , as has been observed above , conjectures that the Silures , who inhabited the south of Wales , had come from Spain , from their swarthy countenances , their curled hair , and the position of the district in which they dwelt ...
... Tacitus , as has been observed above , conjectures that the Silures , who inhabited the south of Wales , had come from Spain , from their swarthy countenances , their curled hair , and the position of the district in which they dwelt ...
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... Tacitus , as already noticed , expressly tells us that the red hair and big bones of the Caledonians asserted their German origin . If this view be correct , the earliest occupants of the North of Britain were a people not of Celtic ...
... Tacitus , as already noticed , expressly tells us that the red hair and big bones of the Caledonians asserted their German origin . If this view be correct , the earliest occupants of the North of Britain were a people not of Celtic ...
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The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People ..., Volume 1 George Lillie Craik Affichage du livre entier - 1847 |
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