| 1865 - 632 pages
...age and to have aroused special indignation at the time. As the Chronicle says : ' Reowlic ping he to owe his funeral rites to the voluntary charity...title which, in the mouths of his contemporaries, he shares with Alexander and with Charles, but which in later times has been displaced by the misunderstood... | |
| Dawson William Turner - 1865 - 184 pages
...inglorious quarrel, in the very commission of the basest cruelty ; and at last the mighty King and Conqueror had to owe his funeral rites to the voluntary charity of a royal vassal, and within the walls of his own minster he could not find an undisputed grave. ' Such... | |
| Katharine Sarah Macquoid - 1874 - 592 pages
...had for the first time to undergo defeat. At last he found his deathwound in an inglorious quarrel, in the personal commission of cruelties which aroused...own minster he could not find an undisputed grave. " It is curious to read this pendant to Mr. Freeman's opinion in a French translation from an old English... | |
| Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 758 pages
...had, for the first time, to undergo defeat. At last he found his death-wound in an inglorious quarrel, in the personal commission of cruelties which aroused...Such was William the Great, a title which, in the William's mouths of his contemporaries, he shared with Alexander th^ffreat and with Charles, but which... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...had, for the first time, to undergo defeat. At last he found his deathwound in an inglorious quarrel, in the personal commission of cruelties which aroused...owe his funeral rites to the voluntary charity of a royal vassal, and within the walls of his own minster he could not find an undisputed grave. EA FBBEMAN.... | |
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