Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... became famous , Vespasian , was sent in pursuit of them . The Britons fell back upon the Thames . Crossing it themselves somewhere in its course between London and the sea , they awaited the invaders in the confidence that this obstacle ...
... became famous , Vespasian , was sent in pursuit of them . The Britons fell back upon the Thames . Crossing it themselves somewhere in its course between London and the sea , they awaited the invaders in the confidence that this obstacle ...
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... became so important a person that the Emperor Commodus offered him the title of Cæsar . The honour was declined , and Albinus soon after lost the favour of Commodus by denoun- cing him as a tyrant . He was superseded in his command ...
... became so important a person that the Emperor Commodus offered him the title of Cæsar . The honour was declined , and Albinus soon after lost the favour of Commodus by denoun- cing him as a tyrant . He was superseded in his command ...
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... became more formidable , and the Roman forces suffered several defeats . In 369 , how- ever , Valentinian I. sent into the island Theodosius , one of the ablest of his generals . The Picts and Scots ( for by these two names the northern ...
... became more formidable , and the Roman forces suffered several defeats . In 369 , how- ever , Valentinian I. sent into the island Theodosius , one of the ablest of his generals . The Picts and Scots ( for by these two names the northern ...
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... weald , " made a stubborn resistance . The region was then , as it became again long after- I In the second century of our era , from the geographer Ptolemy . 2 See p . 82 . wards , the scene of a busy manufacture of iron 8.
... weald , " made a stubborn resistance . The region was then , as it became again long after- I In the second century of our era , from the geographer Ptolemy . 2 See p . 82 . wards , the scene of a busy manufacture of iron 8.
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... became of the inhabi- tants of the country that thus became English instead of being British ? This is a question that has been variously answered ; some writers holding that the Britons were exterminated ; others , that large num- bers ...
... became of the inhabi- tants of the country that thus became English instead of being British ? This is a question that has been variously answered ; some writers holding that the Britons were exterminated ; others , that large num- bers ...
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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.