Habits of life of our predecessors, tends to produceįeelings of stronger interest and more tender venera. In general, an increased acquaintance with the Reading and reflecting mechanics and husbandmen. Has long employed the leisure hours of many among their That the observation and description of ancient remains With reverence for every vestige of the past, and espe-Ĭially for such as relate to their religion or their race, The minds of the Cymry are so deeply embued Inquiry, and contribute tested truths for the correction,Įstablishment, and enrichment of history. Group its facts, define its objects, direct methodical Inclinations in acquiring various kinds of information.Īntiquarian science has consequently become in ourĭays almost a popular study while associations ofĪccomplished and industrious scholars systematically The diffusion of elementary literature has latelyĮnabled persons of all classes to indulge their several Tangible existing monuments, locally connected with Traditions of their progenitors, and in the visible and Illiterate, history is comprised in the recollections and That history has ever been a favourite study. Reflection upon the past is so natural to man, Known by several clever papers in periodical works,Īnd by his separate Essays on Physiology,* and on the As an English writer he, as yet, is chiefly Well known and highly valued throughout the Princi. HisĬontributions to various Welsh Magazines are likewise Is already immortalized by the Welsh Bards. Ing History of his country and nation, Mr. Retarded the appearance of the present Volume.Īs the Author of the "Hanes Cymru," the best exist. Rees, without the safeguard of a Subscription List Īnd the tedious process of enrolling 500 names has The estimated expense of the publication was, how-Įver, too great to be prudently undertaken by Mr. Materials for the present w^ork, were, consequently,ĭelivered untouched to the present possessor. Of more than fifty years, and including the principal Papers, comprising the miscellaneous accumulations The autumn of the year 1851, confided the editorial Occur in rendering this due tribute to his memory, in Private Friends, anxious that no further delay should Legatee and with the most intimate of Carnhuanawc's Thomas Price ofĬwmdii, the Publisher conjointly with the Principal Ing his intention of editing the Literary Remains and John Williams, Archdeacon of Cardigan, from execut. Multiplied engagements having prevented the Ven. The Prints are from the Anastatic Press of Mr. Charles Augustus Mornetcicl, noto in the posset^sion of Lady Hall of Whitehead Grove, Chelsea from the original Portrait painted in the year 1846 The Frontispiece has heen taken hy Miss Whitehead, Photographic Artist, Price's Vicarage-House, with the Briannog Mountain Of the Statuta Walli^, or the Statutes of Rhuddlan, by which Time of Gruffydd ap Cynan and Meilyr to that of Sir Gruff. On the History of the Language and Literature of Wales, from the On the influence which the Welsh Traditions have had on the Value in elucidating Ancient History, &c. Gaelic Literature of the 11th to 14th century. Irish Literature of the 11th to 14th century. Welsh Literature of the 11th to 14th century. ![]() Gaelic Literature of the 6th to 11th century. ![]() Of the Inhabitants of Britain, Ireland, and Gaul THE "Welsh, Irish, and Gaelic Languages, and their value inĮlucidating the Ancient History and the Mental Cultivation Oi\ THE Comparative Merits of the Remains of Ancient Literature in Historical Poem of the xivth century, called the Combat des Marriage Ceremonies of Bas Leon, compared with those of Lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown u]>Īnd down, may chance to spring up armed men." Mii-ton's "Areopagitioa." Section vi.ĭescriptions of the Province of Bretagne, and its Inhabitantsĭissertation upon the Breton and other Languages Purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. ![]() "Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to boĪs active as that soul was whose progeny they are nay, they do preserve, as in a phial, the VICAR OF CWMDU, BRECONSHIltE AND RURAL DEAN:ĪUTHOR OF HANES CYMRU, ESSAYS ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL PROGRESS OF EMPIRE Thomas Price, Carnhuanawc, vicar of Cwmdû, Breconshire, and rural dean, author of Hanes Cymru, Essays on the geographical progress of empire and civilization, etc. Full text of " The literary remains of the Rev.
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