Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...the British attempts at defence,) and penetrated as far as St. Alban's, im L posed a tribute, and returned to Gaul. The fact of his leaving no forces to secure his conquests shows that his purpose was not so much to establish the Roman power in Britain, as to prevent the Gauls from deriving any aid from thence, and to occupy his army, till his designs upon the Roman Empire were ripe. (CVs. lib. 6. c. 5.) When Ca;sar landed. he found the inhabitants divided into upwards of 40 different tribes, of whom the most considerable inland people were the Brigantes, a Celtic race: the South and West were possessed by Belgian tribes, who had come from Gaul, and forced the Aborigines into the midland. Not that the Belg»e and Celts were originally of different families, for they had the same worship, and spoke merely distinct dialects. St. Jerome tells us that the Belgse and Galatians, who were Celtic Gauls, spoke the same language. Prichard, vol. III. p. 70--109. The form of government, if it can be so called, was patriarchal, the father having the power of life and death over his family: but, among freemen and heads of families, the Druids were the judges. This priest-hood is said to have begun in Britain, and to have flourished more there than anywhere. They were kept very distinct from the people, but were not a caste, or particular tribe, as in the Eastern priesthoods; but chosen out of the best families, and from the most promising young men and women. Serpent-worship was a chief point in this as in nearly all false religions, even in Mahommetanism; but their sacrificing human victims has made them the objects of special loathing to Christian feelings. (Burke, English History, Chap. 2.) According to Augustus' policy Led. 8.) Britain was left alone from the tim...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...the British attempts at defence,) and penetrated as far as St. Alban's, im L posed a tribute, and returned to Gaul. The fact of his leaving no forces to secure his conquests shows that his purpose was not so much to establish the Roman power in Britain, as to prevent the Gauls from deriving any aid from thence, and to occupy his army, till his designs upon the Roman Empire were ripe. (CVs. lib. 6. c. 5.) When Ca;sar landed. he found the inhabitants divided into upwards of 40 different tribes, of whom the most considerable inland people were the Brigantes, a Celtic race: the South and West were possessed by Belgian tribes, who had come from Gaul, and forced the Aborigines into the midland. Not that the Belg»e and Celts were originally of different families, for they had the same worship, and spoke merely distinct dialects. St. Jerome tells us that the Belgse and Galatians, who were Celtic Gauls, spoke the same language. Prichard, vol. III. p. 70--109. The form of government, if it can be so called, was patriarchal, the father having the power of life and death over his family: but, among freemen and heads of families, the Druids were the judges. This priest-hood is said to have begun in Britain, and to have flourished more there than anywhere. They were kept very distinct from the people, but were not a caste, or particular tribe, as in the Eastern priesthoods; but chosen out of the best families, and from the most promising young men and women. Serpent-worship was a chief point in this as in nearly all false religions, even in Mahommetanism; but their sacrificing human victims has made them the objects of special loathing to Christian feelings. (Burke, English History, Chap. 2.) According to Augustus' policy Led. 8.) Britain was left alone from the tim...
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