Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... chief doctrine is that the soul of man does not perish , but passes after death from one person to another . They hold that this is the best of all incitements to courage as banishing the fear of death . They have much also to say about ...
... chief doctrine is that the soul of man does not perish , but passes after death from one person to another . They hold that this is the best of all incitements to courage as banishing the fear of death . They have much also to say about ...
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... come . Accordingly , the chiefs who had assembled at the camp found pretexts for leaving it , while fresh forces were brought down from the interior to the coast . STRATAGEM OF THE BRITONS . 19 Cæsar , though without 18 CESAR IN BRITAIN .
... come . Accordingly , the chiefs who had assembled at the camp found pretexts for leaving it , while fresh forces were brought down from the interior to the coast . STRATAGEM OF THE BRITONS . 19 Cæsar , though without 18 CESAR IN BRITAIN .
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... chief . The chariots and cavalry attacked the Roman horse , and , though finally repulsed , inflicted severe loss . A second attack , this time made upon the cohorts which were protect- ing the fortifications of the camp , was for a ...
... chief . The chariots and cavalry attacked the Roman horse , and , though finally repulsed , inflicted severe loss . A second attack , this time made upon the cohorts which were protect- ing the fortifications of the camp , was for a ...
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... chiefs of Cantium ( 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 ...
... chiefs of Cantium ( 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 ...
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... chiefs paid tribute to Rome . It is likely enough that the Emperor , after he found himself firmly established on the throne , would claim some acknowledgment of his sovereignty , and that the British chiefs would give it rather than ...
... chiefs paid tribute to Rome . It is likely enough that the Emperor , after he found himself firmly established on the throne , would claim some acknowledgment of his sovereignty , and that the British chiefs would give it rather than ...
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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.