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... ( Lands. 54 54 56 HIBERNIA R NE COLANIA Lanark ) ava st Firth of Tag ) Boderia Firth of Fort MONA 0 1 be VA n c u B ( Anglesey ) CORSULA MONA ( Holy . ) G EN Τ A Ataunus FI . ? ( Coquet ) UXELUM ? ( Caerlaverock ) Ituna Es Solway Fir Tyne ...
... ( Lands. 54 54 56 HIBERNIA R NE COLANIA Lanark ) ava st Firth of Tag ) Boderia Firth of Fort MONA 0 1 be VA n c u B ( Anglesey ) CORSULA MONA ( Holy . ) G EN Τ A Ataunus FI . ? ( Coquet ) UXELUM ? ( Caerlaverock ) Ituna Es Solway Fir Tyne ...
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Alfred John Church. givius Tobius th . Towy BOLBRIUM PR . ( Lands End ) CASSITERIDES ( Scilly Isles ) OCRINIUM PROM . ( The Lizard ) ( Caerlon ) Sabrina Es Caerwent Caer Cari ) Cirencester ) CORINAM LONDINIUM PORTUS LEMANUS Hymne B RI ...
Alfred John Church. givius Tobius th . Towy BOLBRIUM PR . ( Lands End ) CASSITERIDES ( Scilly Isles ) OCRINIUM PROM . ( The Lizard ) ( Caerlon ) Sabrina Es Caerwent Caer Cari ) Cirencester ) CORINAM LONDINIUM PORTUS LEMANUS Hymne B RI ...
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... land along the coast , or , at least , part of the coast , in which the traveller saw wheat growing . ' This wheat , " the traveller says , " the natives threshed , not on open floors , but in barns , because they had so little sunshine ...
... land along the coast , or , at least , part of the coast , in which the traveller saw wheat growing . ' This wheat , " the traveller says , " the natives threshed , not on open floors , but in barns , because they had so little sunshine ...
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... land , and the soldiers , heavily weighted as they were with their arms and armour , had to jump off into deep water , get what footing they could among the breakers , and so make their way to land . The enemy , on the other hand ...
... land , and the soldiers , heavily weighted as they were with their arms and armour , had to jump off into deep water , get what footing they could among the breakers , and so make their way to land . The enemy , on the other hand ...
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... land . Their general did what he could to help and encourage them . He detached the ships of war from the rest of the fleet , and used them to make a diversion on the flank of the enemy . Their decks were manned with slingers and ...
... land . Their general did what he could to help and encourage them . He detached the ships of war from the rest of the fleet , and used them to make a diversion on the flank of the enemy . Their decks were manned with slingers and ...
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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.