Lectures on the History of EnglandMacmillan, 1879 - 582 pages |
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... Danes . St. Edmund LECTURE IX . - ALFRED . King Alfred . His education . His wars with the Danes . The Treaty of Wedmore . The time of peace . Alfred's work in law , justice , religion , and education . His books . LECTURE X. - ENGLAND ...
... Danes . St. Edmund LECTURE IX . - ALFRED . King Alfred . His education . His wars with the Danes . The Treaty of Wedmore . The time of peace . Alfred's work in law , justice , religion , and education . His books . LECTURE X. - ENGLAND ...
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... Danes . Massacre of St. Brice . Swend . Ethelred's flight . Normandy and the Normans . Edmund Ironside ... 104 LECTURE XIII . - CNUT . A Danish king - his fierce beginning his reform - his religion- pilgrimage to Rome - his letter - his ...
... Danes . Massacre of St. Brice . Swend . Ethelred's flight . Normandy and the Normans . Edmund Ironside ... 104 LECTURE XIII . - CNUT . A Danish king - his fierce beginning his reform - his religion- pilgrimage to Rome - his letter - his ...
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... Danes . St. Edmund . 1. ENGLAND was now beginning to have far more intercourse with the rest of Europe than she had had for a long time . In the fervour of their new conversion , the English began to send missionaries to convert their ...
... Danes . St. Edmund . 1. ENGLAND was now beginning to have far more intercourse with the rest of Europe than she had had for a long time . In the fervour of their new conversion , the English began to send missionaries to convert their ...
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... Danes . It 15. These last were the Danes , as they are called . For the next two or three hundred years our history is full of them . almost seems as if we were going back 400 years , and reading history over again . Then we had a ...
... Danes . It 15. These last were the Danes , as they are called . For the next two or three hundred years our history is full of them . almost seems as if we were going back 400 years , and reading history over again . Then we had a ...
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... Danes quite away . Numbers of them settled down in the land , and took root there ; but as they spoke nearly the same language , and came of the same stock , they soon mixed with the English and became one with them . But we have not ...
... Danes quite away . Numbers of them settled down in the land , and took root there ; but as they spoke nearly the same language , and came of the same stock , they soon mixed with the English and became one with them . But we have not ...
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Page 13 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand - his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. And his drooped head sinks gradually low And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower: and now The arena swims around him - he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 509 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 175 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ...
Page 510 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Page 509 - When France in wrath her giant-limbs upreared, And with that oath, which smote air, earth, and sea, Stamped her strong foot and said she would be free, Bear witness for me, how I hoped and feared!
Page 63 - Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me : He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house : He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Page 499 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold ; as he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Page 207 - Let them praise the Name of the Lord : for he spake the word, and they were made ; he commanded, and they were created.
Page 198 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
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