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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... monk of the fourteenth century , who collected valuable materials for the statistics of Roman Britain , says , Among the Britons were formerly ninety - two cities , of which thirty - three were more celebrated and conspicuous . " He ...
... monk of the fourteenth century , who collected valuable materials for the statistics of Roman Britain , says , Among the Britons were formerly ninety - two cities , of which thirty - three were more celebrated and conspicuous . " He ...
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... monk of Jarrow . The civil government of Britain was remodelled by Constantine . The province was placed under the jurisdiction of the prefect of the Gauls ; and £ 2 THE CHURCH IN BRITAIN . [ A.D. 337 Alfred's residence with Ethelbert ...
... monk of Jarrow . The civil government of Britain was remodelled by Constantine . The province was placed under the jurisdiction of the prefect of the Gauls ; and £ 2 THE CHURCH IN BRITAIN . [ A.D. 337 Alfred's residence with Ethelbert ...
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... monk , " as Gibbon calls him , " who , in the profound ignorance of human life , presumes to exercise the office of historian , " tells us that the Romans , who were occasionally called in to aid against the Picts and Scots , " give ...
... monk , " as Gibbon calls him , " who , in the profound ignorance of human life , presumes to exercise the office of historian , " tells us that the Romans , who were occasionally called in to aid against the Picts and Scots , " give ...
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... monks , who preached the word of God to the na- tion of the Angles . " Bede very judiciously omits all such details . He tells us that " they carried on the conflagration from the east- ern to the western sea , without any opposition ...
... monks , who preached the word of God to the na- tion of the Angles . " Bede very judiciously omits all such details . He tells us that " they carried on the conflagration from the east- ern to the western sea , without any opposition ...
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... monk Gregory , who was destined to raise the con- dition of its inhabitants , and to relieve it from some of its sorrows and fears , when he should become its spiritual and temporal ruler . In the market- place of Rome were exposed to ...
... monk Gregory , who was destined to raise the con- dition of its inhabitants , and to relieve it from some of its sorrows and fears , when he should become its spiritual and temporal ruler . In the market- place of Rome were exposed to ...
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