Taliesin; or, The bards and druids of Britain. A tr. of the remains of the earliest Welsh bards, and an examination of the bardic mysteries, by D.W. Nash, Page 511858 |
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... Druidic church , or the immunities to which the Druids as ministers of religion and teachers of the learned arts had ... Druids RELIGION OF THE DRUIDS . 13.
... Druidic church , or the immunities to which the Druids as ministers of religion and teachers of the learned arts had ... Druids RELIGION OF THE DRUIDS . 13.
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... Druidic order , are detailed with great minuteness by many writers , and have been collected and related as though they were supposed to be true history , as lately as 1853.1 66 ' The three orders of this great institution , were ...
... Druidic order , are detailed with great minuteness by many writers , and have been collected and related as though they were supposed to be true history , as lately as 1853.1 66 ' The three orders of this great institution , were ...
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... Druidic superstitions , is that known by the name of the Llyvr Du o Gaer Vyrdhin , or the Black Book of Caermarthen , in the library of the Vaughans at Hengwrt . It is a quarto of 54 leaves , the first 45 being in a different hand , and ...
... Druidic superstitions , is that known by the name of the Llyvr Du o Gaer Vyrdhin , or the Black Book of Caermarthen , in the library of the Vaughans at Hengwrt . It is a quarto of 54 leaves , the first 45 being in a different hand , and ...
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... Druidic hierarchy of Gaul and Britain , are to be found in compositions , none of which are pretended to be of earlier date than the commencement of the sixth century of the Christian era . That a very considerable number of the works ...
... Druidic hierarchy of Gaul and Britain , are to be found in compositions , none of which are pretended to be of earlier date than the commencement of the sixth century of the Christian era . That a very considerable number of the works ...
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... Druidic order , who , under the primitive Bardic system , were by pri- vilege employed in going periodical circuits to instruct the people , answering the purpose of a priesthood ; but in later times , the term implied a society of ...
... Druidic order , who , under the primitive Bardic system , were by pri- vilege employed in going periodical circuits to instruct the people , answering the purpose of a priesthood ; but in later times , the term implied a society of ...
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