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A New: Edition of Toland's History of the Druids (Classic Reprint)
A New Edition of Toland's History of the Druids - Classic Reprint Author:John Toland I liARLY imbued with a competent knowledge of the Greek andR oman languages, I imbibed, along with them, every possible prejudice against the Celts. I was, from my infancy, taught to consider them a parcel of demusavages their language an unintelligible jargon, and their boasted antiquity the raving of a disordered imagination. Dazzled with the ... more »splendour of the classic 2(fgc, I endeavoured to derive every thing from the Greek andR oman languages. I had even gone the hopeful length, of deriving Penpont from Pene Pontus ;C atterthun from Cast? aT hani; Dunnipace from Duni Pads ;C riiden from Cruor Danorum; with a thousand other fooleries of the same kind. A bout twenty years ago, the treatise now offered io the public, fell into my hands. I was astonished io find that it tore up by the roots the whole philological system, which I had so long held sacred and invulnerable. The boasted precedency of the Greek andR oman languages now appeared, at least, doubtful.
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