 | Gildas (st.) - 1841 - 220 pages
...protection to their friends whom it covered. But this wall, being made of turf instead of stone, was of no use to that foolish people, who had no head to guide them. Romans 8 16. The Roman legion had no sooner returned leave Britain. •* ° home in joy and triumph,... | |
 | John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 546 pages
...protection to their friends whom it covered. But this wall, being made of turf instead of stone, was of no use to that foolish people, who had no head to guide them. § 16. The Roman legion had no sooner returned home in joy and triumph, than their former foes, like... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 552 pages
...protection to their friends whom it covered. But this wall, being made of turf instead of stone, was of no use to that foolish people, who had no head to guide them. § 16. The Roman legion had no sooner returned home in joy and triumph, than their former foes, like... | |
 | Richard Abbatt - 1849 - 100 pages
...protection to their friends whom it covered. But this Wall, being made of turf instead of stone, was of no use to that foolish people, who had no head to guide them. § 16. The Roman legion had no sooner returned in joy and married in 1709, and the following year to... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1851 - 594 pages
...protection to their friends whom it covered. But this wall being made of turf, instead of stone, was of no use to that foolish people, who had no head to guide them. The Roman legion had no sooner returned home in joy and triumph, than their former foes, like hungry... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1851 - 578 pages
...protection to their friends whom it covered. But this wall being made of turf, instead of stone, was of no use to that foolish people, who had no head to guide them. The Roman legion had no sooner returned home in joy and triumph, than their former foes, like hungry... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1872 - 554 pages
...protection to their friends whom it covered. But this wall, being made of turf instead of stone, was of no use to that foolish people, who had no head to guide them. § 16. The Roman legion had no sooner returned home in ioy and triumph, than their former foes, like... | |
 | Masonic monthly - 1882 - 398 pages
...sea to the other. " This wall, however," (he writes) " being made of turf instead of stone, was of no use to that foolish people, who had no head to guide them." The wall having failed to protect them against the invasion of the Picts and Scots, the Britons again... | |
 | John Collingwood Bruce - 1885 - 330 pages
...a protection to their friends whom it covered. But this wall being of turf instead of stone, was of no use to that foolish people, who had no head to guide them." On the departure of the Roman legion their former enemies descended upon them, spread slaughter on... | |
 | 1899 - 530 pages
...help. He describes how a legion, which we know from other sources was under Stilicho, was despatched, and how the enemy were dispersed with great slaughter....use to that foolish people who had no head to guide them."1 The legion was then withdrawn (AD 402), and at once this action was followed by the return... | |
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... of their protectors, they now built a wall across the island from one sea to the other, which being manned with a proper force, might be a terror to the foes whom it was intended to repel, and a protection to their friends whom it covered. But this... 
