Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... brothers very commonly with brothers , and parents with children . The off- spring of each wife is reckoned to belong to the husband who first married her . " The iron found " near the sea - coast " probably came from the iron fields of ...
... brothers very commonly with brothers , and parents with children . The off- spring of each wife is reckoned to belong to the husband who first married her . " The iron found " near the sea - coast " probably came from the iron fields of ...
Page 42
... brothers yielded themselves prisoners . The king himself escaped for a time , and took refuge with Cartismandua , Queen of the Brigantes . She put him in chains , and delivered him to the Romans . It is impossible to assign to their ...
... brothers yielded themselves prisoners . The king himself escaped for a time , and took refuge with Cartismandua , Queen of the Brigantes . She put him in chains , and delivered him to the Romans . It is impossible to assign to their ...
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... brothers , his daughter and his wife , and , last of all , Caradoc himself . All his companions prostrated themselves on the ground ; the king alone stood erect . permitted to deliver has The speech which he was been thus reported by ...
... brothers , his daughter and his wife , and , last of all , Caradoc himself . All his companions prostrated themselves on the ground ; the king alone stood erect . permitted to deliver has The speech which he was been thus reported by ...
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... brother Gratianus in the West . These two princes did not feel themselves strong enough to attack Maximus , who was permitted to retain possession of Western Europe for four years . In 387 he attempted to add Italy to his dominions . At ...
... brother Gratianus in the West . These two princes did not feel themselves strong enough to attack Maximus , who was permitted to retain possession of Western Europe for four years . In 387 he attempted to add Italy to his dominions . At ...
Page 104
... brother of the king ) fought against three kings at Deorham , and took three cities from them - Gloucester and Ciren- cester and Bath . Frethern ( in Gloucestershire ) is mentioned ( though we cannot be certain of the place ) as the ...
... brother of the king ) fought against three kings at Deorham , and took three cities from them - Gloucester and Ciren- cester and Bath . Frethern ( in Gloucestershire ) is mentioned ( though we cannot be certain of the place ) as the ...
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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.