Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... Kent , and Cambridge . From the originals in the British Museum 118 27. - Page of Gospels . From the original MS . ... ... 28. Chapel at Bradford - on - Avon . Ear- liest specimen of Saxon building 130 extant ... ... ... ... ... 147 29 ...
... Kent , and Cambridge . From the originals in the British Museum 118 27. - Page of Gospels . From the original MS . ... ... 28. Chapel at Bradford - on - Avon . Ear- liest specimen of Saxon building 130 extant ... ... ... ... ... 147 29 ...
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... Kent . From the original in the British Museum 51. - Pevensey Castle . From a photo . graph by Messrs . Poulton 52. --William of Normandy Bayeaux Tapestry ... From the ... ... ... 53 .-- Seal of Edward the Confessor From the original in ...
... Kent . From the original in the British Museum 51. - Pevensey Castle . From a photo . graph by Messrs . Poulton 52. --William of Normandy Bayeaux Tapestry ... From the ... ... ... 53 .-- Seal of Edward the Confessor From the original in ...
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... Kent are by far the most civilized ( Kent is a wholly maritime region ) . These , indeed , differ but little from the Gauls in habits of life . Many of the inland Britons do not grow corn , but live on milk and flesh , and are clothed ...
... Kent are by far the most civilized ( Kent is a wholly maritime region ) . These , indeed , differ but little from the Gauls in habits of life . Many of the inland Britons do not grow corn , but live on milk and flesh , and are clothed ...
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... ( Kent ) an attack on the camp which Cæsar had constructed by the shore : The attack was made , but without success , and the Britons suffered greatly from a sally of the garrison . The British king now sent envoys to treat for peace ...
... ( Kent ) an attack on the camp which Cæsar had constructed by the shore : The attack was made , but without success , and the Britons suffered greatly from a sally of the garrison . The British king now sent envoys to treat for peace ...
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... Kent , seeing that the Picts troubled him by land and the Saxons by sea , thought to himself , I shall do well if I can set these robbers the one against the other . ' So he spake to one Hengist , their chief . ' Let us make alliance to ...
... Kent , seeing that the Picts troubled him by land and the Saxons by sea , thought to himself , I shall do well if I can set these robbers the one against the other . ' So he spake to one Hengist , their chief . ' Let us make alliance to ...
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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.