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An Account of the Roman Antiquities Preserved in the Museum at Chesters ... - Page 229
by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1903 - 432 pages
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The works of Gildas and Nennius, tr. by J.A. Giles

Gildas (st.) - 1841 - 220 pages
...crowding under the protecting wings of their parents, that their wretched country might not altogether be destroyed, and that the Roman name, which now was...flight, their unexpected bands of cavalry by land and mariners by sea, and planting their terrible swords upon the shoulders of their enemies, they mow them...
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Six Old English Chronicles

John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 572 pages
...crowding under the protecting wings of their parents, that their wretched country might not altogether be destroyed, and that the Roman name, which now- was...compassion, as far as human nature can be, at the relations of such horrors, send forward, like eagles in their flight, their unexpected bands of cavalry...
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Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the ...

John Allen Giles - 1848 - 552 pages
...ripe corn, they cut up, tread under foot, and overrun the whole country. destroyed, and that the Eoman name, which now was but an empty sound to fill the...moved with compassion, as far as human nature can lie, at the relations of such horrors, send forward, like eagles in their flight, their unexpected...
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A History of the Picts Or Romano-British Wall, and of the Roman Stations and ...

Richard Abbatt - 1849 - 100 pages
...crowding under the protecting wings of their parents, that their wretched country might not altogether be destroyed, and that the Roman name, which now was...compassion, as far as human nature can be, at the relations of such horrors, send forward, like eagles in their flight, their unexpected bands of cavalry...
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The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon: A History of the Early Inhabitants of ...

Thomas Wright - 1861 - 554 pages
...crowding under the protecting wings of their parents, that their wretched country might not altogether be destroyed, and that the Roman name, which now was...forward, like eagles in their flight, their unexpected bauds of cavalry by land and mariners by sea, and, planting their terrible swords upon the shoulders...
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Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the ...

John Allen Giles - 1872 - 554 pages
...their parents, that their wretched country might not altogether be 306 THE WORKS OF GILDAS. CMc. 18. destroyed, and that the Roman name, which now was...compassion, as far as human nature can be, at the relations of such horrors, send forward, like eagles in their flight, their unexpected bands of cavalry...
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The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon: A History of the Early Inhabitants of ...

Thomas Wright - 1885 - 590 pages
...crowding under the protecting wings of their parents, that their wretched country might not altogether be destroyed, and that the Roman name, which now was but an empty sound to till the ear, might not become a reproach even to distant nations. Upon this, the Romans, moved with...
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Six Old English Chronicles, of which Two are Now First Translated from the ...

John Allen Giles - 1891 - 564 pages
...not altogether be THE WORKS OF GILDAS. Iffc. * destroyed, and that the Roman name, which now was bat an empty sound to fill the ear, might not become a...compassion, as far as human nature can be, at the relations of such horrors, send forward, like eagles in their flight, their unexpected bands of cavalry...
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Old English Chronicles: Including Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of ...

John Allen Giles - 1901 - 574 pages
...chickens, crowding under the protecting wings parents, that their wretched country might u<A, slva. destroyed, and that the Roman name, which now was but an empty sound to fill the ear, might not begome a reproach even to distant nations. Upon this, the Romans, moved with compassion, as far as...
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The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon: A History of the Early Inhabitants of ...

Thomas Wright - 1902 - 590 pages
...crowding under the protecting wings of their parents, that their wretched country might not altogether be destroyed, and that the Roman name, which now was...flight, their unexpected bands of cavalry by land and mariners by sea, and, planting their terrible swords upon the shoulders of their enemies, they mow...
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