Readings in English Social History, from Pre-Roman Days to A.D. 1837Robert Burns Morgan University Press, 1923 - 585 pages |
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... corn , cattle , and gold and silver , and iron , which things are brought thence , and also skins and slaves , and dogs sagacious in hunting ; and the Celti use these for the purposes of war also , as well as their native dogs . The men ...
... corn , cattle , and gold and silver , and iron , which things are brought thence , and also skins and slaves , and dogs sagacious in hunting ; and the Celti use these for the purposes of war also , as well as their native dogs . The men ...
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... corn , they cut off the ears from the stalk , and so house them up in repositories underground , thence they take and pluck out the grains of as many of the oldest of them as may serve them for a day , and , after they have bruised the corn ...
... corn , they cut off the ears from the stalk , and so house them up in repositories underground , thence they take and pluck out the grains of as many of the oldest of them as may serve them for a day , and , after they have bruised the corn ...
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... corn for food , one sheep or three pennies for winter food , one sester of beans for lenten fare , and in summer whey or one penny . All Slaves are entitled to a Christmas feast and an Easter feast , and in harvest a handful of corn ...
... corn for food , one sheep or three pennies for winter food , one sester of beans for lenten fare , and in summer whey or one penny . All Slaves are entitled to a Christmas feast and an Easter feast , and in harvest a handful of corn ...
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... Corn ( a ) In this same year 66 the sester " 1 of wheat went to fifty- five pence , and even further . ( A.D. 1031. ) ( b ) In this year there was a very great famine over all England , and corn so dear as no man before remembered , so ...
... Corn ( a ) In this same year 66 the sester " 1 of wheat went to fifty- five pence , and even further . ( A.D. 1031. ) ( b ) In this year there was a very great famine over all England , and corn so dear as no man before remembered , so ...
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... corn and fruits were at a stand , and so great unpro- pitiousness in weather , as no one can easily think , so great was the thunder and lightning , that it killed many men and ever it grew worse with men more and more . May Almighty ...
... corn and fruits were at a stand , and so great unpro- pitiousness in weather , as no one can easily think , so great was the thunder and lightning , that it killed many men and ever it grew worse with men more and more . May Almighty ...
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abbot according aforesaid afterwards Aldermen Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle arms barons Beowulf bishops bōt Britain Brother brought CÆDMON called Canterbury cattle cellarer chamber Chronicle church Cilurnum circa A.D. citizens City of London cloth command corn court custom Danes Domesday Book drink Earl Edward II England English farthing feast fire fish Forester gates Gaul Giles gold halfpenny hall hand Henry Henry of Huntingdon Holinshed holy honour horses hundred Item Jews John king's knights labour land learned live lord the King lord's manner marriner Martinmas master Mayor monastery monks noble ordained peace pence penny persons priest prison realm reign rode Rolls Series servants sheriffs shillings ship silver SOURCE Steward stone sword thereof things thou Tower town twopence unto wall Westminster whole William of Malmesbury William the Conqueror wine
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Page 483 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Page 171 - This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise; This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war ; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands ; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 268 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood : Though I go bare, take ye no care ; I nothing am a-cold : I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old.
Page 332 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " Would he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
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Page 19 - God ; that the nation, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error from their hearts, and knowing and adoring the true God, may the more familiarly resort to the places to which they have been accustomed.
Page 426 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.
Page 488 - I have been at one opera, Mr. Wesley's. They have boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes; but indeed so long, that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them. The chapel is very neat, with true Gothic windows (yet I am not converted) ; but I was glad to see that luxury is creeping in upon them before persecution : they have very neat mahogany stands for branches, and brackets of the same in taste.
Page 347 - One day, a great feast was held, and, after dinner, the representation of Solomon his Temple and the coming of the Queen of Sheba was made, or (as I may better say) was meant to have been made, before their Majesties, by device of the Earl of Salisbury and others.
Page 379 - Those that are dull and diligent. Wines, the stronger they be, the more lees they have when they are new. Many boys are muddy-headed till they be clarified with age, and such afterwards prove the best. Bristol diamonds are both bright, and squared and pointed by nature, and yet are soft and worthless; whereas orient ones in India are rough and rugged naturally. Hard, rugged, and dull natures of youth acquit themselves afterwards the jewels of the country, and therefore their dullness at first is...