Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the Monkish Latin Originals. Ethelwerd's Chronicle. Asser's Life of Alfred. Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History. Gildas. Nennius. and Richard of CirencesterJohn Allen Giles, Gildas G. Bell, 1885 - 512 pages |
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... writers both for and against this history , the effect of which upon my own judgment , as to the swaying it to the one side more than the other , was but very small ; and I must confess , that I find the most learned antiquaries.
... writers both for and against this history , the effect of which upon my own judgment , as to the swaying it to the one side more than the other , was but very small ; and I must confess , that I find the most learned antiquaries.
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... side . At least I can- not but think it a sufficient apology for my publishing this book , to consider only , that though it seems to suffer under a general prejudice at present , yet it has not long done so ; but that upon its first ...
... side . At least I can- not but think it a sufficient apology for my publishing this book , to consider only , that though it seems to suffer under a general prejudice at present , yet it has not long done so ; but that upon its first ...
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... side vanquished , and that they could have no more hopes from Rome , devise , in their agony and lamentations , a plan to adopt . For in those days they heard , that the race of the Saxons were active , in piratical enterprises ...
... side vanquished , and that they could have no more hopes from Rome , devise , in their agony and lamentations , a plan to adopt . For in those days they heard , that the race of the Saxons were active , in piratical enterprises ...
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... sides is a most wretched scene of slaughter : at length the Saxons remain masters of the field . For this the king aforesaid honours them with a triumph ; and they privately send home messengers , to tell their countrymen of the fer ...
... sides is a most wretched scene of slaughter : at length the Saxons remain masters of the field . For this the king aforesaid honours them with a triumph ; and they privately send home messengers , to tell their countrymen of the fer ...
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... side of the Britons four thousand men . Then the Britons , leaving Cantia , which is commonly called Kent , fled to the city of London . A. 465. About eight years after , the same men took up arms against the Britons , and there was a ...
... side of the Britons four thousand men . Then the Britons , leaving Cantia , which is commonly called Kent , fled to the city of London . A. 465. About eight years after , the same men took up arms against the Britons , and there was a ...
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