This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ...their ancient and notorious enemies."--Wartoris Hist, of English Poetry, vol. i. Diss. 1.) Vain, perhaps, of claiming a descent similar to that of the masters of the world, the vanquished nations of western Europe adopted a similar persuasion. In the fourth century, Ammianus reports a tradition, which prevailed among ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ...their ancient and notorious enemies."--Wartoris Hist, of English Poetry, vol. i. Diss. 1.) Vain, perhaps, of claiming a descent similar to that of the masters of the world, the vanquished nations of western Europe adopted a similar persuasion. In the fourth century, Ammianus reports a tradition, which prevailed among the Gauls, that they were descendants of fugitive Trojans. " Aiunt quidam paucos, The Gaulish Bretons were proud of this origin so late as the sixteenth century. Parvi, in his funeral oration, pronounced over Ann of Bretagne, (1514) Queen of Louis the Twelfth, traces her genealogy up to Brutus and Ynoge, daughter of Pandrasns, a noble Emperor of Greece. (Lobinetn, torn. 1. p. 187.). post excidium Trojae, fugitantis Graecos undique dispersos, loca haec occupasse tunc vacua." (1. 15.) And in the sixth, Hunibaldus Francus deduced the Franks, from Francio son of Priam, and exhibits a regular line of sovereigns down to Pharamond, f and the Trojan extraction of the French was a favourite opinion iu France in the seventh and eighth centuries." Hist. Liter, de France, torn. iv. p. 271. Du Chesne, Biblioth. det Auteurs, %c. c. 3. p. 10.) It is again discovered in the chronicle of the celebrated Sigebert de Gemblours, Sherringham, c. 1. p. 9.) which is brought down to the year 1112; it was also found in the MS. which Henry of Huntingdon saw at Bee, in Normandy, 1110, Langhorn Antiq. Albionenses: and Archalogia, vol. xii. p. 56.) and from which he also transcribed the Trojan origin of the Britons, in his own history (1. 1.). His narrative, together with the former, is given nearly in the words of Mark, without any of the amplifications with which the history of Jeffery abounds. It should not pass unnoticed, that in the most ancient and...
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