 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...the English law supposes never to die, the guardian fly of the well of St. Michael was helieved to he exempted from the laws of mortality. To the eye of ignorance he might sometimes appear dead, hut, agreeahly to the Uruidic system, it was only a transmigration into a similar... | |
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...of Great Britain, whom a fiction of the English law supposes never to die, the guardian fly of the well of St. Michael was believed to be exempted from...laws of mortality. To the eye of ignorance he might sometimes appear dead, but, agreably to the Druidic system, it was only a transmigration into a similar... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1892 - 322 pages
...of Great Britain, whom a fiction of the English law supposes never to die, the guardian fly of the well of St Michael was believed to be exempted from...laws of mortality. To the eye of ignorance he might sometimes appear dead, but, agreeable to the Druidic system, it was only a transmigration into a similar... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 360 pages
...of Great Britain, whom a fiction of the English law supposes never to die, the Guardian Fly of the Well of St. Michael was believed to be exempted from...laws of mortality. To the eye of ignorance he might sometimes appear dead, but agreeably to the Druidic system, it was only a transmigration into a similar... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 366 pages
...of Great Britain, whom a fiction of the English law supposes never to die, the Guardian Fly of tie Well of St. Michael was believed to ! be exempted from the laws of mortality, i To the eye of ignorance he might sometimes appear dead, but agreeably to the Druidic system, it was... | |
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... regarded in silent awe ; and as he appeared cheerful or dejected, the anxious votaries drew their presages ; their breasts vibrated with correspondent emotions. Like the Delai Lama of Thibet, or the King of Great Britain, whom a fiction of the English... 