The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times, Volume 1Bradbury and Evans, 1856 |
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... hundred years , every attempt to merge the freedom of the governed in the absolute control of the governors . From the feudal system of the Norman , we derive those appropriations of territory , which , however liable to abuses in their ...
... hundred years , every attempt to merge the freedom of the governed in the absolute control of the governors . From the feudal system of the Norman , we derive those appropriations of territory , which , however liable to abuses in their ...
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... hundred years ago , on those chalk cliffs whence the coast - guard now watches the steam - boat threading its rapid way over the channel , stood the solitary fisherman , amazed at the sight of eighty ships of burden , and vessels with ...
... hundred years ago , on those chalk cliffs whence the coast - guard now watches the steam - boat threading its rapid way over the channel , stood the solitary fisherman , amazed at the sight of eighty ships of burden , and vessels with ...
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... hundred . Accord- ing to his own account , the people whom he SPORIMP R CAES Augustus . encountered in his progress were the Cantii of Kent , the Trinobantes of Essex , * Life of Cesar , s . 16 , Mr. Long's translation in " Civil Wars ...
... hundred . Accord- ing to his own account , the people whom he SPORIMP R CAES Augustus . encountered in his progress were the Cantii of Kent , the Trinobantes of Essex , * Life of Cesar , s . 16 , Mr. Long's translation in " Civil Wars ...
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... hundred years . A road , acknowledged to be British , still crosses Salisbury plain into Berkshire . A vast earthen rampart called Wansdyke extends for miles - a supposed defence of one tribe against another . If it were possible to ...
... hundred years . A road , acknowledged to be British , still crosses Salisbury plain into Berkshire . A vast earthen rampart called Wansdyke extends for miles - a supposed defence of one tribe against another . If it were possible to ...
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... hundred and sixty - four years after Caligula's survey of the coasts , came to the same spot another young emperor , flushed with power ; and there he encamped his legions , and prepared his rafts for a mighty invasion . Suetonius tells ...
... hundred and sixty - four years after Caligula's survey of the coasts , came to the same spot another young emperor , flushed with power ; and there he encamped his legions , and prepared his rafts for a mighty invasion . Suetonius tells ...
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