Britannia Antiquissima

Author : John Jones Thomas
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ISBN 13 : 9781330544549
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Britannia Antiquissima written by John Jones Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Britannia Antiquissima: Or, a Key to the Philology of History, (Sacred and Profane) My dear Caraddaeg, Many of your friends, who attended the banquet held at the Prince of Wales Hotel, in celebration of the Anniversary of Sant Ddewi, or St. David's Day, (1st March, 1800;, have expressed a wish that you should publish your interesting essays on the Language and Early History of the Cimmerians. I think the publication of a work upon the many curious and imperfectly understood subjects treated of in the papers, portions of which you read on the above-named and subsequent occasions, would be welcomed especially by your countrymen, and, I may add, by the public generally. It is believed, from the ability evinced therein, that, were you to apply your linqual talent and classical learning to the task of analysing those questions thoroughly, we should have access to more reliable data tlian are at present available, and a clearer light may be thrown upon the philological, ethnological, as well as the political history of the Cimmerians, and of their descendants, the Cyrnry or Ancient Britons, the primitive and heroic inhabitants of Ynys Prydain, or the Hyperborean Isles of the West. There are many reasons which should induce you to attempt to strike out a new path through this tetra incognita of history, and, as yet, comparatively unexplored field of Cambric literature. It is the bounden duty of some one who claims kindred with the Camry to grapple earnestly and manfully with the subject, and who is not only conversant with the Crimean, but having, also, an acquaintance with the idiomatic structure of the other learned languages of antiquity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.