Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... seems to have imagined . Again and again the people rose against him , and five years more of fighting were required before the work could be said to have been thoroughly done . Still towards the end of the campaigning season in 55 he ...
... seems to have imagined . Again and again the people rose against him , and five years more of fighting were required before the work could be said to have been thoroughly done . Still towards the end of the campaigning season in 55 he ...
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... seems to have been , by some rough weather . Many were wrecked , the rest lost much of their tackling , and , for the present , were rendered useless . There was , of course , great consternation in the camp . There were no means , it ...
... seems to have been , by some rough weather . Many were wrecked , the rest lost much of their tackling , and , for the present , were rendered useless . There was , of course , great consternation in the camp . There were no means , it ...
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... seems to be somewhat exaggerated . There could not have been time for the gathering of the great hosts of natives which he describes . It is probable that it was only a small region in South - eastern Britain that concerned itself about ...
... seems to be somewhat exaggerated . There could not have been time for the gathering of the great hosts of natives which he describes . It is probable that it was only a small region in South - eastern Britain that concerned itself about ...
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... seem to have been overawed by the formidable appearance of the fleet , which had been increased by the craft belonging to private owners to more than eight hundred . Cæsar lost no time in commencing operations . Without even staying to ...
... seem to have been overawed by the formidable appearance of the fleet , which had been increased by the craft belonging to private owners to more than eight hundred . Cæsar lost no time in commencing operations . Without even staying to ...
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... seems to be the same in both cases . The Parthians gave back , as a matter of policy or friendship , the spoils which they had taken at the defeat of Crassus . This arrangement the Roman poets describe by such phrases as " tearing down ...
... seems to be the same in both cases . The Parthians gave back , as a matter of policy or friendship , the spoils which they had taken at the defeat of Crassus . This arrangement the Roman poets describe by such phrases as " tearing down ...
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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.