The Annals of England: An Epitome of English History, from Contemporary Writers, the Rolls of Parliament, and Other Public Records ...John Henry and James Parker, 1865 |
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... island before the Nor- man invasion , an event which by some writers seems to be considered as almost the beginning of authentic British history . They implicitly receive the necessarily hasty and imperfect statements of Cæsar as ...
... island before the Nor- man invasion , an event which by some writers seems to be considered as almost the beginning of authentic British history . They implicitly receive the necessarily hasty and imperfect statements of Cæsar as ...
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... island of Britain is eight hundred miles long , and two hundred miles broad : and here in this island are five tongues , English , British , Scottish , Pictish , and Latin . The first inhabitants of this land were Britons ; they came ...
... island of Britain is eight hundred miles long , and two hundred miles broad : and here in this island are five tongues , English , British , Scottish , Pictish , and Latin . The first inhabitants of this land were Britons ; they came ...
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... island eastward of this , where ye may dwell , if ye will , and if any one withstand you , we will assist you , so that you may subdue it . ' Then went the Picts , and subdued this land northwards ; the southern part the Britons had ...
... island eastward of this , where ye may dwell , if ye will , and if any one withstand you , we will assist you , so that you may subdue it . ' Then went the Picts , and subdued this land northwards ; the southern part the Britons had ...
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... island , and give some vague idea of its size ; and Ptolemy , early in the second cen- tury , furnishes a table of the position of many of its promontories and rivers , and of its tribes and cities ; to which Marcianus Heracleota , in ...
... island , and give some vague idea of its size ; and Ptolemy , early in the second cen- tury , furnishes a table of the position of many of its promontories and rivers , and of its tribes and cities ; to which Marcianus Heracleota , in ...
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... island named Ictis , lying off Britain ; for a sin- gular circumstance happens with respect to the neigh- bouring islands lying between Europe and Britain ; for at the high tides , the intervening passage being flooded , neighbours . It ...
... island named Ictis , lying off Britain ; for a sin- gular circumstance happens with respect to the neigh- bouring islands lying between Europe and Britain ; for at the high tides , the intervening passage being flooded , neighbours . It ...
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