Blair Collection > History of the Celtic language

CONTENTS.
PAOE
Dedication . iii
Preface, vii
CHAPTER I.
Opinions of Eminent Philologists relative to the Anti-
quity and consequent Importance of the Celtic Lan-
guage — Comment thereon by the Author — The British
and the Celtic compared, &c. . . ^ .25
CHAPTER II.
The Dawn of Human Existence — Man contemplated as
fresh from the hands of his Maker — Opinions of Emi-
nent Scholars in favour of the groundwork, . . 62
CHAPTER III.
Adam giving Names to Beasts of the Field — These
Names an Echo or Rehearsal of their Voices severally,
and still preserved in the Celtic Language and its
cognate Dialects, and forming important Roots — The
Hierograms and Theogony of Primitive Ages exa-
mined and illustrated, ...... 72