Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the Monkish Latin OriginalsJohn Allen Giles, Gildas Henry G. Bohn, 1848 - 512 pages |
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... Roman , British , and Saxon history as he has given us concerning the pre- ceding period , induced me to examine the work . But my expectations were greatly disappointed . The learned scholar and the deep antiquarian I found sunk into ...
... Roman , British , and Saxon history as he has given us concerning the pre- ceding period , induced me to examine the work . But my expectations were greatly disappointed . The learned scholar and the deep antiquarian I found sunk into ...
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... Roman race who were left in Britain , not bearing the manifold insults of the people , bury their treasures in pits thinking that hereafter they might have better fortune , which never was the case ; and taking a por- tion , assemble on ...
... Roman race who were left in Britain , not bearing the manifold insults of the people , bury their treasures in pits thinking that hereafter they might have better fortune , which never was the case ; and taking a por- tion , assemble on ...
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... Roman emperor , son of the pious Lewis Augustus . In the same year the aforesaid venerable king Ethelwulf released the tenth part of all his kingdom from all royal service and tribute , and with a pen never to be forgotten , offered it ...
... Roman emperor , son of the pious Lewis Augustus . In the same year the aforesaid venerable king Ethelwulf released the tenth part of all his kingdom from all royal service and tribute , and with a pen never to be forgotten , offered it ...
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... honours and privileges , and prescribed This seems to be a false account of the Roman roads in Britain . a law for the punishment of any injury committed upon CH . 4 , 5. ] 125 THE DANES PAY TRIBUTE . CHAP. IV. The king of Dacia, with ...
... honours and privileges , and prescribed This seems to be a false account of the Roman roads in Britain . a law for the punishment of any injury committed upon CH . 4 , 5. ] 125 THE DANES PAY TRIBUTE . CHAP. IV. The king of Dacia, with ...
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... Romans make a covenant with Brennius , but afterwards break it , for which reason Rome is besieged and taken by ... Roman consuls , must be apparent to every reader . No less evident is it committed . When they saw that no nation ...
... Romans make a covenant with Brennius , but afterwards break it , for which reason Rome is besieged and taken by ... Roman consuls , must be apparent to every reader . No less evident is it committed . When they saw that no nation ...
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Page 399 - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dung-hill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.
Page 330 - But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, And your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity ; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: They trust in vanity, and speak lies ; They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrice...
Page 331 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness : their feet are swift to shed blood : destruction and misery are in their ways : and the way of peace they have not known : there is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 323 - Woe be to them who call good evil, and evil good, placing darkness for light, and light for darkness, bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter...
Page 371 - But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God who will render to every man according to his works.
Page 297 - And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
Page 51 - He was loved by his father and mother, and eren by all the people, above all his brothers, and was educated altogether at the court of the king. As he advanced through the years of infancy and youth, his form appeared more comely than that of his brothers; in look, in speech, and in manners he was more graceful than they. His...
Page 296 - And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 76 - On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the king's chamber, talking on all kinds of subjects, as usual, and it happened that I read to him a quotation out of a certain book. He heard it attentively with both his ears, and addressed me with a thoughtful mind, showing me at the same moment a book which he carried in his bosom, wherein the daily courses and psalms, and prayers which he had read in his youth, were written, and he commanded me to write the same quotation in that book.
Page 71 - In these times, I also came into Saxony [Wessex] out of the furthest coasts of Western Britain; and when I had proposed to go to him through many intervening provinces, I arrived in the country of the Saxons, who live on the right hand, which in Saxon is called Sussex, under the guidance of some of that nation; and there I first saw him in the royal vill, which is called Dene.