Words and Places, Or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology, and GeographyMacmillan, 1864 - 578 pages |
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... -Chester , caster , and caer - Stations of the Roman Legions -Frontier districts - Castile - The Mark - Pfyn , Devises- Ethnic shire - names of England - Intrusive colonization 262 CHAPTER XI . THE STREET - NAMES OF LONDON .
... -Chester , caster , and caer - Stations of the Roman Legions -Frontier districts - Castile - The Mark - Pfyn , Devises- Ethnic shire - names of England - Intrusive colonization 262 CHAPTER XI . THE STREET - NAMES OF LONDON .
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... marks the spot where , in less than a month , the Saxon king lost his kingdom and his life . 1 Stamford Bridge was long known as Battle Bridge - Pons Belli.— See Lappenberg's Ang . Sax . Kings , vol . ii . p . 281 . 2 See Saga of Harald ...
... marks the spot where , in less than a month , the Saxon king lost his kingdom and his life . 1 Stamford Bridge was long known as Battle Bridge - Pons Belli.— See Lappenberg's Ang . Sax . Kings , vol . ii . p . 281 . 2 See Saga of Harald ...
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... marks upon our maps so many of the earliest settlements of the Spaniards and Portuguese . The name of SAN SEBASTIAN , the first Spanish colony founded on the continent of South America , forms a touching memorial of the perils which ...
... marks upon our maps so many of the earliest settlements of the Spaniards and Portuguese . The name of SAN SEBASTIAN , the first Spanish colony founded on the continent of South America , forms a touching memorial of the perils which ...
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... mark the sites of the earlier Puritan colonies in North America . SALEM was intended to be the earthly realization of the New Jerusalem , where a " New Reformation , " of the sternest Calvinistic type , was to inaugurate a fresh era in ...
... mark the sites of the earlier Puritan colonies in North America . SALEM was intended to be the earthly realization of the New Jerusalem , where a " New Reformation , " of the sternest Calvinistic type , was to inaugurate a fresh era in ...
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... marks they will have , in his eyes , a value of the same kind as that which is now attached to the names of Hesse , Devonshire , The Solway , Paris , or Turin.1 The name of VIRGINIA carries us back to the reign of the Virgin Queen , and ...
... marks they will have , in his eyes , a value of the same kind as that which is now attached to the names of Hesse , Devonshire , The Solway , Paris , or Turin.1 The name of VIRGINIA carries us back to the reign of the Virgin Queen , and ...
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Words and Places: Or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology,and ... Isaac Taylor Affichage du livre entier - 1882 |
Words and Places: Or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology and ... Isaac Taylor Affichage du livre entier - 1882 |
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ancient names Anglo-Saxon Arabic bears the name Burg Buttmann Cape Celtic Celtic names Celts century Cham Christian coast colony conquest Cornwall corruption Cymric Danes Danish denote derived Deut Deutschen Diefenbach Diez Dipl district Domesday Dorset England English English Commonwealth Erse Essex Etym Etymol etymology Europe forest Förstemann France French Gadhelic Gaelic German Gesch Gough's Camden Greek Grimm Heimskringla hill Hist History Iceland island Isle Italian Italy Kent Kings Lancashire land language Latham Latin Lincolnshire Lond London Lorr means Menage miles Mone mountain Müller Norfolk Normandy Norse names Northern Northmen Nthld Old High German Orig Origines Ortsnamen Patronymics Philolog phonetic Pictet Pott probably river Roman Romance Languages root Saints Sanskrit Saxon Sclavonic Scotland Sinai and Pal Spain Spanish Street suffix Suffolk supra Sussex takes its name Teutonic town tribes valley village Wales Welsh word Wörterb Yorkshire Zeuss
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Page 98 - And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter: which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
Page 27 - Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death...
Page 26 - ... two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could...
Page 23 - Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a souldier, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testifie he was. The same Monday night, about twelve of the clocke, or not long after, the Frigat being ahead of us in the Golden Hinde, suddenly her lights were out, whereof as it were in a moment we lost the sight, and withall our watch cryed, the Generall was cast away, which was too true. For in that moment, the Frigat was devoured and swallowed up of the Sea.
Page xxvi - Sketch-Book of Popular Geology : Being a Series of Lectures delivered before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh. With an Introductory Preface, giving a Resume of the Progress of Geological Science within the last Two Years.
Page 7 - He has also spoken of this; and will give him seven feet of English ground, or as much more as he may be taller than other men.
Page 430 - The leaves thereof being dried and brought into pouder, they use to take the fume or smoake thereof, by sucking it thorow pipes made of clay, into their stomacke and head...
Page 40 - The knowledge of the history and the migrations of such tribes must be recovered from the study of the names of the places which they once inhabited, but which now know them no more—from the names of the hills which they fortified, of the rivers by which they dwelt, of the distant mountains upon which they gazed. As an eloquent writer has observed, " Mountains and rivers still murmur the voices of nations long denationalized or extirpated.
Page 125 - Nullas Germanorum populis urbes habitari, satis notum est : ne pati quidem inter se junctas sedes. Colunt discreti ac diversi, ut fons, ut campus, ut nemus placuit. Vicos locant, non in nostrum morem, connexis et cohaerentibus aedificiis : suam quisque domum spatio circumdat, sive adversus casus ignis remedium, sive inscitia aedificandi.
Page 23 - Generall sitting abaft with a booke in his hand, cried out unto us in the Hind (so oft as we did approch within hearing) We are as neere to heaven by sea as by land.