Letters on Welsh HistoryE. S. Jones, 1852 - 322 pages |
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according ancient appears Armorica army Arthur assembly assessors Baptist Bardic Bardism bards battle Brennus Britons Brittany Cæsar called CAMBRO-BRITON Caradawg Caswallawn Caswallon century character chief of clan Christian church civil claim common country and clan court Cymry degree descent district Druids duty England English faith father foreign free acres Gaul Gorsedd gospel gwlad Gwynedd historians hundred inhabitants island Isle of Britain judge judgment justice king knowledge land Laws of Hywel learned Leges Wallica literally Llywarch Hen Lollardism lord means Medrawd mind ministers nation native Welshman North Wales oath Owain papacy peace Picts popery preserved prince principles privilege profession protection Prydain race recorded reign religion religious respect Roman Rome Saxons seizor session Silurian South Wales tain Three things tion translated Triad tribes truth Vortigern Welsh history Welsh language Welsh laws Welsh word Welshman wisdom Wledig worship writers
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Page 257 - Bards, went to sea in the house of glass, and there have been no tidings whither they went. Third, Madawg, son of Owain Gwynedd, who, accompanied by three hundred men, went to sea in ten ships, and it is not known to what place they went.
Page 86 - And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
Page 94 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee ; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee : for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Page 91 - But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Page 60 - ... you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
Page 301 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 238 - Britain and its three islands." § 9. It is fertilized by several rivers, which traverse it in all directions, to the east and west, to the south and north; but there are two pre-eminently distinguished among the rest, the Thames and the Severn, which formerly, like the two arms of Britain, bore the ships employed in the conveyance...
Page 77 - I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man: And the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Page 159 - The three necessary, but reluctant, duties of the bards of the isle of Britain : secresy for the sake of peace and the public good ; invective lamentation demanded by justice; and the unsheathing of the sword against the lawless and depredatory. For the remainder of these " Institutional Triads,
Page 70 - I say to thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.