. The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, Volume 22 . hey were the only perfons fuppofed tovunderstand the divine nature j and thefeauguft prerogatives, it muft be owned,juftify Monf. Ferets conjecture on thtorigin of their name. Chriftiany has rendered the name Druidas odious as before it bad been venerable jk being now, both in the Britifh and lritfi Flanguage, applied! only to forcerers andmagicians. So early as the time of theAnglo-Saxons it was ufed in this oppro-brious fen re. Monf. Feret diftinguiftie* the Druids in-to three claifcs, adding, that the fecondWere the b
. The London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer, Volume 22 . hey were the only perfons fuppofed tovunderstand the divine nature j and thefeauguft prerogatives, it muft be owned,juftify Monf. Ferets conjecture on thtorigin of their name. Chriftiany has rendered the name Druidas odious as before it bad been venerable jk being now, both in the Britifh and lritfi Flanguage, applied! only to forcerers andmagicians. So early as the time of theAnglo-Saxons it was ufed in this oppro-brious fen re. Monf. Feret diftinguiftie* the Druids in-to three claifcs, adding, that the fecondWere the bards, or poets, who compofedthe hymns and fongs in honour of the pgods and heroes. The word bards, ofCeltick origin, he obferves, is. still in ufein the Britifh and Irifh languages, as thefunOion exprefltd by it alfe is in thofe countries. The name of bards itgiven to thofe whom our anceflbo&sTrouveres or Troubadours, a kind*.etical tnuficians, who vifit the elthe nobility and gentry, tinging the tof great men, dead or living, theirbeing accompanied with an h,arjfc. September theatre, WE have here prefented . .^with a beautiful P*a**EcVthe city of OXFORD; but *formerly given a very large and jdescription of this famous city amverfity, it will be fufflcient ro referto thofe paflages where this defcto be found. They are all contained in ourzine for 1747. In that for year, p. 4ig, 419, 4*0, it acular account of its fituation, dimeumarkets, flreets, diurchcs and othe*lick buildings belonging to thethat for October of the fame ~442, 443, may be feen a dthe Bodleian library, the .^_RadcliflTs library, and the other ,„edifices belonging to the unhrerflty,the famous phyfick garden, ftc, ,December of that year, p. 565, cteyiour readers will fee a very diftinet SUMof the feveral colleges and haHs, w4names of their founders and theof their foundations. Befitfes defcriptions, there is a gencount of this city in our MaJanuary, 1749, where there is _„correct M
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