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" Wiltshire men overcame, but both dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air? "
The Scottish Historical Review - Page 217
1909
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 7

1788 - 588 pages
...fuch bickerings to recount, met oft'n in thefe our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air ?" The faft is, that the fmalleft of the heptarchic kingdoms was fuperior in fize and power to any...
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Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, Volume 63

1788 - 642 pages
...fuch bickerings to recount, met oft'n in thefe «ur writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites, or crows, flocking and fighting in the air ?" The faft is, that the fmalleft of the hept.irchic kingdoms was fuperior in fize and power to any...
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History of Marine Architecture: Including an Enlarged and Progressive View ...

John Charnock - 1801 - 956 pages
...registering such trifles, exclaim, " These bickerings to record, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air." Such, however, must be, occasionally, the painful task of the historian. . Alfred, the fourth son to...
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Geschichte von England, Volume 1

Johann Martin Lappenberg - 1834 - 752 pages
...Such bickerings to recount, met often in theie our writers; what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air? History of England ad a. 800. gen. Sine fcï;r genaue Übereinfltmmung mit bem icbecb aufc fut>tlid)em...
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The History of England, Volume 1

Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 518 pages
...against the Welsh or the Picts. Milton has said that these conflicts are as undeserving of notice as " the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air," and this remark certainly holds good with respect to the general reader, though it may not apply with...
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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 426 pages
...the transactions of the AngloSaxon heptarchy, or octarchy, would be as worthless " to chronicle as the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air." Thus a poet-historian can veil by a brilliant metaphor the want of that knowledge which he contemns...
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Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 pages
...the transactions of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, or Octarchy, would be as worthless " to chronicle as the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air." Thus a poet-historian can veil by a brilliant metaphor the want of that knowledge which he contemns...
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Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 366 pages
...the transaotiops of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, or Octarchy, would be as worthless "to chronicle as the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air." Thus a poet-historian can veil by a brilliant metaphor the want of that knowledge which he contemns...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1845 - 580 pages
...such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air? The year following,! Eardulf the Northumbrian leading forth an army against Kenwulf the Mercian for...
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From earliest times to 800

Johann Martin Lappenberg - 1845 - 384 pages
...Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air }" Milton, Hist. of England. — T. 4 Vita Offse II. made by one of his subjects to the abbey of St....
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