 Our greatest advantage in coping with tribes so powerful is that they do not act in concert. Seldom is it that two or three states meet together to ward off a common danger. Thus, while they fight singly, all are conquered. Their sky is obscured by continual...  England Before the Norman Conquest - Page 36by Raymond Wilson Chambers - 1926 - 334 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1868 - 180 pages
...states meet together to ward off a common danger. Thus, while they fight singly, all are conquered. Their sky is obscured by continual rain and cloud....is unknown. The days exceed in length those of our part of the world; the nights are bright, and in the extreme north so short that between sunlight and... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 234 pages
...continual rain and cloud. Severity of cold is unknown. The days exceed in length those of our part of the world ; the nights are bright, and in the extreme...said that, if there are no clouds in the way, the splendour of the sun can be seen throughout the night, and that he does not rise and set, but only... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 276 pages
...states meet together to ward off a common danger. Thus, while they fight singly, all are conquered. Their sky is obscured by continual rain and cloud....is unknown. The days exceed in length those of our part of the world ; the nights are bright, and in the extreme north so short that between sunlight... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 pages
...states meet together to ward off a common danger. Thus, while they fight singly all are conquered. Their sky is obscured by continual rain and cloud....is unknown. The days exceed in length those of our part of the world ; the nights are bright, and in the extreme north so short that between sunlight... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 pages
...states meet together to ward off a common danger. Thus, while they fight singly all are conquered. Their sky is obscured by continual rain and cloud....is unknown. The days exceed in length those of our part of the world ; the nights are bright, and in the extreme north so short that between sunlight... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 pages
...continual rain and cloud. Severity of cold is unknown. The days exceed in length those of our part of the world ; the nights are bright, and in the extreme...said that, if there are no clouds in the way, the splendour of the sun can be seen throughout the night, and that he does not rise and set, but only... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 538 pages
...states meet together to ward off a common danger. Thus, while they fight singly, all are conquered. Their sky is obscured by continual rain and cloud....is unknown. The days exceed in length those of our part of the world ; the nights are bright, and in the extreme north so short that between sunlight... | |
 | George Kish - 1978 - 482 pages
...and winds far inland, and finds a home among hills and mountains as though in its own domain . . . Their sky is obscured by continual rain and cloud....is unknown. The days exceed in length those of our part of the world; the nights are bright, and in the extreme north so short that between sunlight and... | |
 | Ronald Mellor - 1998 - 548 pages
...states meet together to ward off a common danger. Thus while they fight singly, all are conquered. Their sky is obscured by continual rain and cloud....is unknown. The days exceed in length those of our part of the world; the nights are bright, and in the extreme north so short that between sunlight and... | |
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