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... took to flight , and Cæsar laments that for lack of cavalry he could not pursue them . " This was the one thing , " he says , speaking , according to custom , in the third person , " that was wanting to Cæsar's old good fortune . " In ...
... took to flight , and Cæsar laments that for lack of cavalry he could not pursue them . " This was the one thing , " he says , speaking , according to custom , in the third person , " that was wanting to Cæsar's old good fortune . " In ...
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... Cæsar's uneasiness about the temper of Gaul , that he took a great number of hostages with him to Britain . Dumnoix THE SECOND LANDING . 23 ing , it may be ગુરૂની પર III CÆSAR IN BRITAIN (Second Expedition) · 22-30.
... Cæsar's uneasiness about the temper of Gaul , that he took a great number of hostages with him to Britain . Dumnoix THE SECOND LANDING . 23 ing , it may be ગુરૂની પર III CÆSAR IN BRITAIN (Second Expedition) · 22-30.
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... reached their destination . Cæsar , however , would not wait . He crowded his troops on board such vessels as he had , and took them across without losing a single ship . This marvellous good fortune - the Channel four times crossed.
... reached their destination . Cæsar , however , would not wait . He crowded his troops on board such vessels as he had , and took them across without losing a single ship . This marvellous good fortune - the Channel four times crossed.
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... with his force of cavalry and friendly Britons , and carried it by storm . The besieged were entangled 1 Tacitus does not give us a hint of where this took place . in their own defences , and made a desperate resist- V. V CARACTACUS 39-47.
... with his force of cavalry and friendly Britons , and carried it by storm . The besieged were entangled 1 Tacitus does not give us a hint of where this took place . in their own defences , and made a desperate resist- V. V CARACTACUS 39-47.
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... took refuge with Cartismandua , Queen of the Brigantes . She put him in chains , and delivered him to the Romans . It is impossible to assign to their proper years the various events of the war which came to an end with the capture of ...
... took refuge with Cartismandua , Queen of the Brigantes . She put him in chains , and delivered him to the Romans . It is impossible to assign to their proper years the various events of the war which came to an end with the capture of ...
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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.