 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1813 - 444 pages
...deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered iiuto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards, and thrice backwards. " Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? '.' Jren. They say he setteth... | |
 | Walter Scott - Marston Moor, Battle of, England, 1644 - 1813 - 468 pages
...deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. " Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen? " Iren. They say he setteth but... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 290 pages
...deliver up the succession peaceable to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. " Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? " Iren. They say he setteth... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 342 pages
...deliver up the succession peaceable to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards" Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? " Iren. They say he setteth but... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - Architecture - 1825 - 744 pages
...deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is: after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himselfa round, thrice forward, and thrice backward." View, &c. p. 1 1 . VOL. I. 8 fined to the outward... | |
 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...peaceably to his tanist, and then, hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office thai is; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. Eudox. But how is the tanist chosen ? Iren. They say he setteth but... | |
 | Ordnance Survey of Ireland, Thomas Colby - Derry (Northern Ireland) - 1837 - 414 pages
...deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is : after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himselfe round, thrice forward, and thrice backward." It is not, perhaps, improbable, that this stone... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1838 - 1080 pages
...deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is, after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himselfe round, thrice forward and thrice backward.' It is not, perhaps, improbable, that this stone... | |
 | John D'Alton - Boyle (Ireland : Barony) - 1845 - 436 pages
...to deliver up the succession peaceably to his tanist, and then had a wand delivered to him by some whose proper office that is, after which, descending...stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forward and backward." " The sons of Milesius came into Ireland about this time," a period which the Four Masters... | |
 | John D'Alton - 1845 - 430 pages
...to deliver up the succession peaceably to his tanist, and then had a wand delivered to him by some whose proper office that is, after which, descending...stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forward and backward." " The sons of Milesius came into Ireland about this time," a period which the. Four Masters... | |
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... of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and... 
