Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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... taken , by permission , from " Transactions of the Essex Field Club " ... ... ... ... ... 4 2. — Shield of the Bronze Age . Found in a turbary called Rhyd - y - gorse , Abery- stwith . From the original in the British Museum 3. - View ...
... taken , by permission , from " Transactions of the Essex Field Club " ... ... ... ... ... 4 2. — Shield of the Bronze Age . Found in a turbary called Rhyd - y - gorse , Abery- stwith . From the original in the British Museum 3. - View ...
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... Taken by permission from " Transactions of the Essex Field Club " ... ... 28 7. - Coin of Claudius . ( The first occasion on which allusion is made to Britain on the coinage of Rome . ) By per- mission of the Rev. J. Collingwood Bruce ...
... Taken by permission from " Transactions of the Essex Field Club " ... ... 28 7. - Coin of Claudius . ( The first occasion on which allusion is made to Britain on the coinage of Rome . ) By per- mission of the Rev. J. Collingwood Bruce ...
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... 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 not attach much credit to it . But on more than one point where they criticized him , we know ...
... 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 not attach much credit to it . But on more than one point where they criticized him , we know ...
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... taken . He at once guessed what had happened , and taking with him the cohorts on guard , while he ordered all the other available troops to follow , hastened to the relief of the foragers . He found them beset by the enemy , and in no ...
... taken . He at once guessed what had happened , and taking with him the cohorts on guard , while he ordered all the other available troops to follow , hastened to the relief of the foragers . He found them beset by the enemy , and in no ...
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... taken . " I Cæsar did not permit any pursuit to be made , as he wished to fortify his camp without any further delay . The next day he sent three columns in pursuit of the enemy . These had just come in sight of the Britons when news ...
... taken . " I Cæsar did not permit any pursuit to be made , as he wished to fortify his camp without any further delay . The next day he sent three columns in pursuit of the enemy . These had just come in sight of the Britons when news ...
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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.