The Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. With Illustrative Notes, a Map of Anglo-Saxon England and a General IndexG. Bell, 1887 - 515 pages |
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Page 24
... historians . This battle was fought between Vortimer , the eldest son of Vortigern , and Hengist , at Aylesford in Kent . into the island , and they began to increase so 24 B. i . c . 15 . BEDA'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY .
... historians . This battle was fought between Vortimer , the eldest son of Vortigern , and Hengist , at Aylesford in Kent . into the island , and they began to increase so 24 B. i . c . 15 . BEDA'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY .
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... fought against each other . However , the kings , priests , private men , and the nobility , still remembering the late calamities and slaughters , in some measure kept within bounds ; but when these died , and another generation ...
... fought against each other . However , the kings , priests , private men , and the nobility , still remembering the late calamities and slaughters , in some measure kept within bounds ; but when these died , and another generation ...
Page 52
... fought against the law of the mind , which the law that is in the members opposed ; if he fought so , he was no captive . Thus , then , man is , as I may say , a captive and yet free . Free on account of justice , which he loves , a ...
... fought against the law of the mind , which the law that is in the members opposed ; if he fought so , he was no captive . Thus , then , man is , as I may say , a captive and yet free . Free on account of justice , which he loves , a ...
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... fought in the plain that is called Heathfield , * Edwin was killed on the 12th of October , †in the year of our Lord 633 , being then forty - seven years of age , and all his army was either slain or dispersed . In the same war also ...
... fought in the plain that is called Heathfield , * Edwin was killed on the 12th of October , †in the year of our Lord 633 , being then forty - seven years of age , and all his army was either slain or dispersed . In the same war also ...
Page 125
... fought , and observing one particular spot of ground greener and more beautiful than any other part of the field , he judiciously concluded with himself that there could be no other cause for that unusual greenness , but that some ...
... fought , and observing one particular spot of ground greener and more beautiful than any other part of the field , he judiciously concluded with himself that there could be no other cause for that unusual greenness , but that some ...
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