Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... probably the North Tyne . By per- mission of the Rev. J. Collingwood Bruce ... ... ... ... III 26. - Anglo - Saxon Pottery . Found in Nor- folk , Kent , and Cambridge . From the originals in the British Museum 118 27. - Page of Gospels ...
... probably the North Tyne . By per- mission of the Rev. J. Collingwood Bruce ... ... ... ... III 26. - Anglo - Saxon Pottery . Found in Nor- folk , Kent , and Cambridge . From the originals in the British Museum 118 27. - Page of Gospels ...
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... probably at this time , I What is here said of Pytheas and his account of his travels must be taken with a certain reserve . His work has been lost , and all that we know of it is derived from quotations made from it by writers who did ...
... probably at this time , I What is here said of Pytheas and his account of his travels must be taken with a certain reserve . His work has been lost , and all that we know of it is derived from quotations made from it by writers who did ...
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... probably came from the iron fields of Sussex , which were worked down to the end of the seventeenth century , when THE DRUIDS . 7 they ceased to be profitable , Iberians and Belgian Celts, 3-Cæsar's Account of Britain,
... probably came from the iron fields of Sussex , which were worked down to the end of the seventeenth century , when THE DRUIDS . 7 they ceased to be profitable , Iberians and Belgian Celts, 3-Cæsar's Account of Britain,
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... probably somewhere near Dover . The coast , he observed , was lined with armed forces of natives , and the " hills " ( by which , doubtless , he means cliffs ) were so near to the sea , that a javelin could easily be thrown from them on ...
... probably somewhere near Dover . The coast , he observed , was lined with armed forces of natives , and the " hills " ( by which , doubtless , he means cliffs ) were so near to the sea , that a javelin could easily be thrown from them on ...
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... probably with- out the necessary length of cable , were greatly damaged by the unexpected rise of the tide , ac- companied , as it seems to have been , by some rough weather . Many were wrecked , the rest lost much of their tackling ...
... probably with- out the necessary length of cable , were greatly damaged by the unexpected rise of the tide , ac- companied , as it seems to have been , by some rough weather . Many were wrecked , the rest lost much of their tackling ...
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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.