Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... Britons , 17 - Stratagem of the Britons , 19- Cæsar sets sail for Gaul , 21 . III . CESAR IN BRITAIN ( Second Expedition ) • 22-30 The Second Landing , 23 - British Valour , 25 - The " Town " of Caswallon , 27 - Hostages and Yearly ...
... Britons , 17 - Stratagem of the Britons , 19- Cæsar sets sail for Gaul , 21 . III . CESAR IN BRITAIN ( Second Expedition ) • 22-30 The Second Landing , 23 - British Valour , 25 - The " Town " of Caswallon , 27 - Hostages and Yearly ...
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... Britons defeated , 55— State of Britain in A.D. 71 , 57 . VII . AGRICOLA IN COMMAND 58-65 The Ordovices , 59 - Ireland first mentioned in History , 63- Recall of Agricola , 65 . THE ROMAN WALLS . VIII . 66-78 Southern Britain , 67 ...
... Britons defeated , 55— State of Britain in A.D. 71 , 57 . VII . AGRICOLA IN COMMAND 58-65 The Ordovices , 59 - Ireland first mentioned in History , 63- Recall of Agricola , 65 . THE ROMAN WALLS . VIII . 66-78 Southern Britain , 67 ...
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... Britons were Iberians , the short - headed Belgian Celts . But facts do not exactly harmonize with this theory . As Professor Huxley remarks , " the extremes of long- and short - headedness are to be met with among the fair 3 ...
... Britons were Iberians , the short - headed Belgian Celts . But facts do not exactly harmonize with this theory . As Professor Huxley remarks , " the extremes of long- and short - headedness are to be met with among the fair 3 ...
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... Britons do not grow corn , but live on milk and flesh , and are clothed in skins . All the Britons stain their persons with a dye that produces a blue . colour . This gives them a more terrible aspect in battle . They wear their hair ...
... Britons do not grow corn , but live on milk and flesh , and are clothed in skins . All the Britons stain their persons with a dye that produces a blue . colour . This gives them a more terrible aspect in battle . They wear their hair ...
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... Britons were governed by kings , one or other of whom , from time to time , acquired more or less authority over the others , we may learn from Cæsar . The same writer tells that they had a power- ful priesthood , which bore the name of ...
... Britons were governed by kings , one or other of whom , from time to time , acquired more or less authority over the others , we may learn from Cæsar . The same writer tells that they had a power- ful priesthood , which bore the name of ...
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afterwards Alfred Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Archbishop army Athelstan attack Author battle Bede Bishop Bretwalda Britain British Britons brother Cæsar called camp Canute Carausius Caswallon cavalry chief Christian Church cloth coast command conquest Crown 8vo Danes Danish daughter death defeated Demy 8vo died dominions Dunstan Earl East Anglia edition Edmund Edric Edward Egbert Emperor enemy England English king Ethelbald Ethelbert Ethelred Ethelwulf fight fled fleet force fought Gaul Godwin hand Harold Harold Hardrada hear held Hengist invaders island Kent King's kingdom land legions London married Mercia monastery native nobles Norman Normandy Northmen Northumbria Pagans peace Penda plunder prince probably ravaged reign Roman Rome sailed says the Chronicler seems sent ships slain soldiers story Suetonius Sussex Sweyn Tacitus Thames throne told took Tostig town tribes troops victory Vortigern Wales wall Welsh Wessex West Saxons William William of Malmesbury
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Page 217 - But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ine my kinsman, or of Offa, king of the Mercians, or of Ethelbert, who first among the English race received baptism, those which seemed to me the rightest, those I have here gathered together, and rejected the others.
Page 158 - Go on quickly, I know not how long I shall hold out, and whether my Maker will not soon take me away.
Page 112 - Beda's list comprises Ella of Sussex, Ceawlin of Wessex, Ethelbert of Kent, Redwald of East Anglia, and Edwin, Oswald, and Oswy, of Northumbria. THE SAXON ERA.
Page 160 - Receive my head into your hands, for it is a great satisfaction to me to sit facing my holy place, where I was wont to pray, that I may also, sitting, call upon my Father ! And thus, on the pavement of his little cell, singing : ' Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; ' when he had named the Holy Ghost, he breathed his last, and so departed to the heavenly kingdom.
Page 157 - ... nights and days, From Heaven to Hell, where the Lord changed them all To Devils, because they his Deed and Word Refused to worship. Therefore in worse light Under the earth beneath, Almighty God Had placed them triumphless in the swart HelL There evening, immeasurably long, Brings to each fiend renewal of the fire; Then comes, at dawn, the east wind keen with frost Its dart, or fire continual, torment sharp, The punishment wrought for them they must bear.