A History of CambridgeshireE. Stock, 1897 - 306 pages |
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Page 16
... carrying the eagles to so distant a region , than with any idea of permanently occupying the country . But the first wave of Roman invasion , which thus , in 55 B.C. , broke upon the shores of Britain , spent its force just before it ...
... carrying the eagles to so distant a region , than with any idea of permanently occupying the country . But the first wave of Roman invasion , which thus , in 55 B.C. , broke upon the shores of Britain , spent its force just before it ...
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... carried all before it . Once the first dyke was stormed , those behind proved only obstacles to embarrass the rout of the defenders , and the space between no better than a death- trap . Shut in between the forest to the east and the ...
... carried all before it . Once the first dyke was stormed , those behind proved only obstacles to embarrass the rout of the defenders , and the space between no better than a death- trap . Shut in between the forest to the east and the ...
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... carried on the family zeal , one being described by Bede as " the golden coin of Kent , " and the other , Ermenilda , aiding , as the Queen of Wulfhere , Penda's son , in St. Chad's work of converting Mercia . " Seldom , indeed , has ...
... carried on the family zeal , one being described by Bede as " the golden coin of Kent , " and the other , Ermenilda , aiding , as the Queen of Wulfhere , Penda's son , in St. Chad's work of converting Mercia . " Seldom , indeed , has ...
Page 54
... carrying an axe and hatchet in his hand , signifying that he did not enter the monastery to live idle , as some do , but to labour ; " and how , while thus employed in handiwork , " as he was less capable of meditating on the Scriptures ...
... carrying an axe and hatchet in his hand , signifying that he did not enter the monastery to live idle , as some do , but to labour ; " and how , while thus employed in handiwork , " as he was less capable of meditating on the Scriptures ...
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... carried him on the march , and took his stand for the battle . In Anglo - Saxon war- fare horses were never used during the actual combat , a national trait which comes out strikingly in the Battle of Hastings , where the Norman force ...
... carried him on the march , and took his stand for the battle . In Anglo - Saxon war- fare horses were never used during the actual combat , a national trait which comes out strikingly in the Battle of Hastings , where the Norman force ...
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Page 175 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
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Page 63 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same...
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Page 191 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Page 191 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 247 - The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Page 20 - Vansittart, with fair intentions, was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check : imperfect indeed, and liable to gross abuse, but still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those of...