Ogygia: Or, A Chronological Account of Irish Events: Collected from Very Ancient Documents, Faithfully Compared with Each Other, and Supported by the Genealogical and Chronological Aid of the Sacred and Prophane Writings of the First Nations of the Globe, المجلد 1

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W. M'Kenzie, 1793 - 711 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة lxiv - And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child ; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. And his mother answered and said, Not so ; but he shall be called John. And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
الصفحة v - Ogygia, or, A Chronological Account of Irish Events: Collected from Very Ancient Documents, Faithfully Compared with Each Other, and Supported by the Genealogical and Chronological Aid of the Sacred and Prophane Writings of the First Nations of the Globe.
الصفحة 87 - England one penny was to be given in all dealings for four pence of money Anjouin. It ought also to be known, that all the above enactments were made and ordained by the advice and consent of the king of France, the king of England, and the king of Sicily.
الصفحة 72 - July, 1 603, was anointed King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland on it; and after him his son, in the year 1625; and his grandson (now reigning), the 23d of April, 1661, were crowned on it. There is no other manner of inauguration with some of the northern nations, than unanimously to constitute the kings elect, lifted upon a stone, with all possible acclamations and demonstrations of joy, as Saxo Grammaticus and others relate. i Tradition says that in the year...
الصفحة 98 - If publish'd, it irrevocably flies. The wood-born race of men when Orpheus tam'd, From acorns and from mutual blood reclaim'd, This priest divine was fabled to assuage The tiger's fierceness, and the lion's rage. Thus rose the Theban wall ; Amphion's lyre And soothing voice the listening stones inspire. Poetic wisdom mark'd, with happy mean, 'public and private ; sacred and profane; The wandering joys of lawless...
الصفحة 72 - Lord it has produced no such oracle : and you can see in Eusebius* Book the delusive oracles that were silenced. The time that it came to the Scots of Britain from Erin cannot be ascertained ; but if I may be allowed to conjecture, it was in the time of Kenneth, who conquered and subjected to the empire of the Scots the Pictish nation, and deposited that stone in the abbey at Scone, in the country of the Picts, when he transferred his palace, and it very probably was transmitted by Aed Finliath,...
الصفحة 67 - Church, from which this book has obtained that denomination, have been. built by the Danes before the arrival of St. Patrick in Ireland.
الصفحة xxxvi - Arabian months. 5. A feries of remarkable dates and epochs, from the creation of the world to the commencement of the Chriftian aera, with proofs from the facred writings, ancient 'hiftory, &c.
الصفحة xxv - Death ftain it; let a Cloud dwell upon it; let the Blacknefs of the Day terrify it...
الصفحة xxxiii - Jince the world began, but now is made manifeft, and by the fcriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the...

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