Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate A Short History of EnglandGinn, 1908 - 781 pages Provides primary sources on Great Britain's history taken from works such as those by Tacitus, excerpts from Beowulf, Froissart, legal statutes, love letters, Fox's book of martyrs, diaries, personal letters etc. |
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abbot aforesaid afterwards Alfred altar Angles archbishop archbishop of Canterbury arms army attack barbarians barons battle Beowulf bishop bones of St Britain Britons brother brought Cędmon Cęsar called Canterbury castles cavalry chariots charter Chronicle church clergy Cnut command conquest court customs Danes death divine duke ealdorman earl East enemy English Ethelred Ethelwulf Extracts faith father fight forest fought Gaul give granted hand heir held holds holy honor horses hundred island John Jutes King Edward king of England king's kingdom knight's fee knights land laws legion liberties live London lord king lord pope manor martyr matter Mercians monastery monks nobles Normandy Normans Northumbria oath pagans peace Picts plow prefect priest received reign Richard Robert Malet Roman ROMAN BRITAIN Rome sent shillings ships shire side slain soldiers summoned sword Tacitus things Thomas thou tion tribes victory West Saxons whole William witan
Popular passages
Page 436 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 410 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear...
Page 480 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 506 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Page 630 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Page 547 - Westminster do resolve that William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be declared king and queen of England, France and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging, to hold the crown and royal dignity of the said kingdoms and dominions to them, the said prince and princess, during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange...
Page 546 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law; 7.
Page 479 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 459 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament...
Page 741 - It shall not be required as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects in the school or elsewhere...