"Keltic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inches and his stoop were certainly very effective. In the bad light he looked at once military and sentimental and studious, like one of Ouida's guardsmen revised by Mr. Haldane and the London School of Economics and finished in the Keltic school. ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells
... language entered Britain, it began its work of destruction. Before it has disappeared the real British, the Cymric or Welsh, Erse or Irish, the Gaelic of Scotland, and the Manx of the Isle of Man. The British Keltic is entirely gone; the rest are entirely local. Beside these it ousted from the island the Norse, the Norman-French, and several other tongues that tried to transplant themselves on English soil. It ...
— The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 • Joseph Wild
... Visigoths (which he does not consider to mean West-Goths) Thervings, Thuringer. That on reaching the land of the Getae they took their name; 'just as the Kentings of Anglo-Saxon England took name from the Keltic country of Kent;' and that the names Goth, Gothones, Gothini were originally given to Lithuanians by their Sclavonic neighbours. I merely state the theory, and leave it ...
— The Roman and the Teuton - A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge • Charles Kingsley
... Belling is the family name of one of the oldest Cornish (Keltic) families—a fact that suggests other ...
— Welsh Fairy-Tales And Other Stories • Edited by P. H. Emerson
... the 'Lord of the House,' to whom the law (Manu, III. 89, etc.) orders oblations to be made. But Hinduism prefers a female house-goddess (see above, p. 374). Windisch connects this Vedic divinity, V[a]stos-pati, with Vesta and Hestia. The same scholar compares Keltic vassus, vassallus, originally 'house-man'; and very ingeniously equates Vassorix with Vedic vas[a][.m] r[a]j[a]—vic[a][.m] r[a]j[a], 'king of the house-men' (clan), like h[.u]skarlar,'house-fellows,' in Scandinavian (domesticus, ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins |
