The venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical history of England, also the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, with notes, ed. by J.A. Giles |
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... side of this bay , settled them- selves there . CHAP . II . Caius Julius Cæsar , the first Roman that came into Britain . BRITAIN had never been visited by the Romans , and was , indeed , entirely unknown to them before the time of ...
... side of this bay , settled them- selves there . CHAP . II . Caius Julius Cæsar , the first Roman that came into Britain . BRITAIN had never been visited by the Romans , and was , indeed , entirely unknown to them before the time of ...
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... side of the river , under the command of Cassibellaun , * and fenced the bank of the river and almost all the ford under water with sharp stakes : the remains of these are to be seen to this day , apparently about the thickness of a ...
... side of the river , under the command of Cassibellaun , * and fenced the bank of the river and almost all the ford under water with sharp stakes : the remains of these are to be seen to this day , apparently about the thickness of a ...
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... side . CHAP . III . Claudius , the second of the Romans who came into Britain , brought the islands Orcades into subjection to the Roman empire ; and Vespasian , sent by him , reduced the Isle of Wight under their dominion . his son In ...
... side . CHAP . III . Claudius , the second of the Romans who came into Britain , brought the islands Orcades into subjection to the Roman empire ; and Vespasian , sent by him , reduced the Isle of Wight under their dominion . his son In ...
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... sides neither perpendicular , nor even craggy , but sloping down into a most beautiful plain , worthy from its lovely appearance to be the scene of a martyr's sufferings . On the top of this hill , St. Alban prayed that God would give ...
... sides neither perpendicular , nor even craggy , but sloping down into a most beautiful plain , worthy from its lovely appearance to be the scene of a martyr's sufferings . On the top of this hill , St. Alban prayed that God would give ...
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... side of it , as the cities , temples , bridges , and paved roads there made , testify to this day ; but they had a right of dominion over the farther parts of Britain , as also over the islands that are beyond Britain . to St. Jerome ...
... side of it , as the cities , temples , bridges , and paved roads there made , testify to this day ; but they had a right of dominion over the farther parts of Britain , as also over the islands that are beyond Britain . to St. Jerome ...
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Page 291 - Benedict, and afterwards by Ceolfrid ; and spending all the remaining time of my life in that monastery, I wholly applied myself to the study of Scripture, and amidst the observance of regular discipline, and the daily care of singing in the church, I always took delight in learning, teaching, and writing.
Page 82 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 42 - For things are not to be loved for the sake of places, but places for the sake of good things.
Page 165 - And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek : and his rest shall be glorious.
Page 165 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 48 - Not that which goeth into the mouth, defileth a man : but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Page 165 - And I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages ; That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth ; To them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves.
Page 154 - All our forefathers, men beloved of God, are known to have kept it after the same manner ; and that the same may not seem to any contemptible or worthy to be rejected, it is the same which St. John the evangelist, the disciple beloved of our Lord, with all the Churches over which he presided, is recorded to have observed.