Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... . The expedition , too , was certainly not a success . As has been said , he was three weeks in the island , and never advanced as much as a mile from the shore . III . CESAR IN BRITAIN . ( SECOND EXPEDITION ). Cæsar sets sail for Gaul,
... . The expedition , too , was certainly not a success . As has been said , he was three weeks in the island , and never advanced as much as a mile from the shore . III . CESAR IN BRITAIN . ( SECOND EXPEDITION ). Cæsar sets sail for Gaul,
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... success with which they fought made them so confident that they abandoned their desultory tactics and ventured on something like a pitched battle . Cæsar had sent out a strong force the next day to forage . The Britons attacked it , and ...
... success with which they fought made them so confident that they abandoned their desultory tactics and ventured on something like a pitched battle . Cæsar had sent out a strong force the next day to forage . The Britons attacked it , and ...
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... success , and the Britons suffered greatly from a sally of the garrison . The British king now sent envoys to treat for peace , using the good offices of Commius to obtain a hearing from Cæsar . The Roman general was ready enough to ...
... success , and the Britons suffered greatly from a sally of the garrison . The British king now sent envoys to treat for peace , using the good offices of Commius to obtain a hearing from Cæsar . The Roman general was ready enough to ...
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... be remembered that a British oppidum was an extensive enclosure , large enough to contain pasture for the cattle which it was intended to protect . CLAUDIUS . 37 successes by a splendid triumph , the 36 BRITAIN AND THE SUCCESSORS OF Cæsar .
... be remembered that a British oppidum was an extensive enclosure , large enough to contain pasture for the cattle which it was intended to protect . CLAUDIUS . 37 successes by a splendid triumph , the 36 BRITAIN AND THE SUCCESSORS OF Cæsar .
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... successes Claudius may have won , the island was far from being conquered . King Caradoc himself , though he had lost his capital , continued to resist . Vespasian was sent to do battle with him . His exploits were without question ...
... successes Claudius may have won , the island was far from being conquered . King Caradoc himself , though he had lost his capital , continued to resist . Vespasian was sent to do battle with him . His exploits were without question ...
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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.