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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... known of our earlier state ; pervert a passage from Milton into an authority for dismissing the events of the six hundred years of Anglo - Saxon rule as " C no more worthy of attention than the combats of crows and kites : " and are ...
... known of our earlier state ; pervert a passage from Milton into an authority for dismissing the events of the six hundred years of Anglo - Saxon rule as " C no more worthy of attention than the combats of crows and kites : " and are ...
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... known , have been derived from the Close and the Patent Rolls , from the Rolls of Parliament and Parlia- mentary Writs , but especially from the Statutes of the Realm ; and , to meet in some measure a deficiency often felt in perusing ...
... known , have been derived from the Close and the Patent Rolls , from the Rolls of Parliament and Parlia- mentary Writs , but especially from the Statutes of the Realm ; and , to meet in some measure a deficiency often felt in perusing ...
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... known world ; yet , four centuries before his time , He- rodotus had made mention of the Cassiterides ( now the • From this , probably the modern district of Lorn , in Argyllshire . Scilly isles ) and their tin mines ; Aristotle also ii ...
... known world ; yet , four centuries before his time , He- rodotus had made mention of the Cassiterides ( now the • From this , probably the modern district of Lorn , in Argyllshire . Scilly isles ) and their tin mines ; Aristotle also ii ...
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... document probably belonging to the fourth century , though only known to us from a tran- script of much later date . Equal to 3,178 and 2,280 English miles . The generally received ideas of the state of Britain at INTRODUCTION . iii.
... document probably belonging to the fourth century , though only known to us from a tran- script of much later date . Equal to 3,178 and 2,280 English miles . The generally received ideas of the state of Britain at INTRODUCTION . iii.
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... known the use of money . It may therefore be assumed , that if the Gauls had a metallic currency before the time of Julius Cæsar's invasion of this island , which to a certainty they had , so also had the Britons .... .It must be ...
... known the use of money . It may therefore be assumed , that if the Gauls had a metallic currency before the time of Julius Cæsar's invasion of this island , which to a certainty they had , so also had the Britons .... .It must be ...
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