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The English works of the late Rev. Eliezer Williams ... with a memoir of his life

Eliezer Williams · 1840 · Scanned text

175,853 words · about 12 h 19 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Eliezer Williams
Language
English
Published
1840
Length
175,853 words · about 12 h 19 min
Sections
18 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (18)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Appendix to the Memoir clviii about 1 min
  3. Chap. V. The first Settlement of Britain, and by what Race about 3 h 4 min
  4. Appendix about 6 h 9 min
  5. Chapter I about 4 min
  6. Chapter II about 13 min
  7. Chapter III about 4 min
  8. Chapter IV about 14 min
  9. Chapter V about 2 min
  10. Chapter VI about 7 min
  11. Chapter VII about 34 min
  12. Chapter I about 11 min
  13. Chapter II about 5 min
  14. Chapter III about 8 min
  15. Chapter IV about 6 min
  16. Chapter V about 7 min
  17. Chapter VI about 57 min
  18. Prologue about 11 min

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Front matter

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Appendix to the Memoir clviii

An Historical Essay on the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Celtic Tribes, particularly their Marriage Ceremonies 1

An Historical Essay on the Taste, Talents, and Literary

Acquisitions of the Druids, and the Ancient Celtic Bards 43 Historical Anecdotes relative to the Energy, Beauty, and Melody, of the Welsh Language, and its Affinity to the Oriental Languages, and those of the South of Europe ... 81 An Inquiry into the Situation of the Gold Mines of the Ancient Britons 143

HISTORY OF THE BRITONS.

EPOCH I.

ORIGIN OF THE BRITONS THEIR HISTORY UNTIL THE INVASION

OF BRITAIN BY THE ROMANS.

Chap. I. Preliminary Observations. — Ancient Documents, often imperfect unless assisted by facts. — The nature of those facts 181

Chap. II. The Nature of the Primitive Language of Europe

and Language in general 1 85

Chap. III. Progress of the Colonization of Europe, from the time of the Dispersion at Babel to the commencement of History 197

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