History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-eightRoutledge, 1860 - 856 pages |
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... ramparts against the Picts and Scots . Other vague hints are seized on with the purpose of claiming our uninterrupted descent from A.D. 273–294 . ] ROMAN PANTHEISM AND CHRISTIANITY . 27 26 [ BOOK II . THE ROMAN OCCUPATION .
... ramparts against the Picts and Scots . Other vague hints are seized on with the purpose of claiming our uninterrupted descent from A.D. 273–294 . ] ROMAN PANTHEISM AND CHRISTIANITY . 27 26 [ BOOK II . THE ROMAN OCCUPATION .
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... Scots , availing themselves of the occupation or the absence , were perpetually thundering at the gate . Wales was perpetually writhing in what she considered her chains , and peaceful merchants in the cities , and industrious settlers ...
... Scots , availing themselves of the occupation or the absence , were perpetually thundering at the gate . Wales was perpetually writhing in what she considered her chains , and peaceful merchants in the cities , and industrious settlers ...
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... Scots , and still less in the undefended walls which surrounded their luxurious towns . Wherever there had in old times been a " castra , " or permanent camp , there was now a city filled with all the appliances of a civilization which ...
... Scots , and still less in the undefended walls which surrounded their luxurious towns . Wherever there had in old times been a " castra , " or permanent camp , there was now a city filled with all the appliances of a civilization which ...
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... Scots on the north , and the returning thousands of ancient Britons from the borders of Wales . Twice the application made for assistance by the distressed inhabitants was success- ful with the Roman chiefs . On each occasion a single ...
... Scots on the north , and the returning thousands of ancient Britons from the borders of Wales . Twice the application made for assistance by the distressed inhabitants was success- ful with the Roman chiefs . On each occasion a single ...
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... Scots . Vortigern , therefore ,. applied to the Saxons , who could fight but could not argue , for aid against his rivals in policy and religion , and the most . ferocious of the heathen tribes at that time existing became the bloody ...
... Scots . Vortigern , therefore ,. applied to the Saxons , who could fight but could not argue , for aid against his rivals in policy and religion , and the most . ferocious of the heathen tribes at that time existing became the bloody ...
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