 | Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph) - 1842 - 332 pągines
...rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods, made Brutus and his company very desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore...that in a little time the country looked like a place that had been long inhabited. At last Brutus called the island after his own name Britain, and his... | |
 | John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 542 pągines
...rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods, made Brutus and his company very desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore...country among them according to the directions of their * The earliest real notice of Albion occurs in a work attributed to Aristotle [De Mundo, sec. 3], who... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 552 pągines
...rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods, made Brutus and his company very desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore...country among them according to the directions of their * The earliest real notice of Albion occurs in a work attributed to Aristotle [De Mundo, sec. 3], who... | |
 | 1848 - 362 pągines
...peopled with " none but a few xxvi. p giants," when Brutus and his company took possession of it ; they " forced the giants to fly into the caves of the mountains, and divided the country, &c."5 And he goes on to relate the history of " one detestable monster, Goemagot (Gogmagog), in stature... | |
 | John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1872 - 556 pągines
...rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods, made Brutus and his company very desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore...that in a little time the country looked like a place that had been long inhabited. At last Brutus called the island after his own name Britain, and his... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1872 - 554 pągines
...rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods, made Brutus and his company very desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore...country among them according to the directions of their * The earliest real notice of Albion occurs in a work attributed to Aristotle [De Mundo, sec. 3], who... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pągines
...rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods made Brutus and his company very desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore...that in a little time the country looked like a place that had been long inhabited. At last Brutus called the island after his own name Britain, and his... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 pągines
...rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods, made Brutus and his company very desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore...that in a little time the country looked like a place that had been long inhabited. At last Brutus called the island after his own name Britain, and his... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 564 pągines
...rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods, made Brutus and his company very desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore...that in a little time the country looked like a place that had been long inhabited. At last Brutus called the island after his own name Britain, and his... | |
 | Frank H. Vizetelly - 1915 - 432 pągines
...rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods, made Brutus and his company very desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore...that in a little time the country looked like a place that had been long inhabited. At last Brutus called the island after his own name Britain, and his... | |
| |
THE island was then called Albion,* and was inhabited by none but a few giants. Notwithstanding this, the pleasant situation of the places, the plenty of rivers abounding with fish, and the engaging prospect of its woods, made Brutus and his company very... 
