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A New History of Great Britain; From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time
A New History of Great Britain From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time Author:John Adams General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1802 Original Publisher: C. Law Subjects: Great Britain History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get ... more »free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: This is chiefly-owing to the dreadful havoc whic made, firft by the Scots and Picts, and afterv the Saxons, of the monuments ot Roman arts and learning in this ifland. Sylvius Bonus was a learned Briton, who flourifhed in the fourth century, and was contemporary with the poet Aufonius, whofe indignation he incurred by criticifing his works. Aufonius wrote no fewer than ftx epigrams agair. ft Sylvius, in which he reproached him chiefly on account of his country ; for the fting of all thefe epigrams is this, " If S)lvius be good, he is not a Briton, or if he be a Briton, he is not good ; for a Briton cannot be a good man." St. Ninian, who was one of the chief innntments ' of propagating the chrifuan religion in the northern parts of this iOand, among- the Scots and Picts, was a Briton of noble birth and excellent genius. Atter he had received as good an education as his own country could afford, he travelled for his further improvement, and fpent feveral years at Rome, which was then the chief feat of learning, as well as of empire. From thence he returned into Britain, and fpent his life in preaching the gofpel in the moft uncultivated parts of it, with equal zeal and fuccefs. St. Patrick, the famous apoftle of the Irifh, was alfoa Briton of a good family and ingeniousdifpofttion. Having received the firft part of his education at home, he travelled into Gaul, and ftudied a Conftderable time under the celebrated St. Germanus, bifhop of Aries, From thence he went to Rome, where, by the depth of his learning and the-fa...« less