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WOMEN IN ENGLAND. 37
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The Bkitons. The It The Is Days Difficul...
daughter , devolved upon the mother , a proof of the high estimate in which children were taught to regard her .
We have _Tbut meagre accounts of the personal appearance and dress of the BritonsLiht hair and blue are national characteristics ,
and ancient writers . g describe them as eyes tall and well formed . Of their long and luxuriant tresses the women were specially proud ; they used
a wash composed of lime to brighten its yellow tinge , and employed other methods to increase its growth . Garments of wool and flax were
blue after common or the black Celtic among word A them kind sate . , of The was cloth generall mantle is mentioned y called of one b uniform y b the Diodorus Romans colour Siculus , sagum either , y
. , as composed into of fine was wool woven , dyed either of several into stri colours pes or , which cheques , being , and
resembled spun the yarn laid , or tartan of the Scotch . Tolanda voluminous writer upon the p Britons , states , though without giving , his authority ,
that the number of colours introduced into the pattern were distinctive marks of rank and position . The king and queen had
a right to seven of fortresses colours , to the four Druids officers to six to , chiefs three and soldiers ladies to to two five ,
while governors the common people were , confined to one . , This account is , wore confirmed a tunic by the of various description colours given , long by and Dion plaited of Boadicea , over which : " She she
had she wore a large at all and times thick . " mantle Ornaments . This of was gold her , amber common , and dress brass , , which have
been found in ancient British barrows , showing that it was customary As the to reli inter gion valuables _jxrofessed with by the the Britons dead . , Druidism , conduced must not
a little to the formation of the national character , we pause for a minute to consider the influence which it exerted , particularly as we find that women were not excluded from taking part in its
rites and solemnities . Though professed by all the Celts © throughout _Ai _* ch Europe -Druid , resided Britain especiall hereand y was Mona the or centre Anglesey of this was faith long . con The
little sidered . the The strong huge hold stones of , and its supporters rude-shaped . monoliths Of its nature , situated we know amid
savage plains or buried in deep forests , show the dark and gloomy deur spirit and of th simp at faith licity . in Yet the wi seclusion th all this of this there of the worshi was p a . sort The and of god of gran the of
nature storm , was and a of nobler the wilderness idea than , the the god immortalized tempest humanities of - Greece , and Romethough each had equally wandered from the true .
God of mercy and , peace . It may be questioned whether any idolatrous worship ever attained such an ascendancy over mankind
as Druidism . The Druids were the arbiters of peace and war , they possessed both the civil and military jurisdiction , and carried their sentence with it
of excommunication as terrible was as as much that in dreaded after t imes and was fulminated consequences any
from the Vatican .
Women In England. 37
WOMEN IN ENGLAND . 37
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/37/
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