The Venerable Bede's Ecclasiatical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon chronicleBell & Daldy, 1894 - 515 pages |
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... side of this bay , settled them- celves there . CHAP . II . Caius Julius Cæsar , the first Roman that came into Britain . BRITAIN had never been visited by the Romans , and was , indeed , entirely unknown to them before the time of ...
... side of this bay , settled them- celves there . CHAP . II . Caius Julius Cæsar , the first Roman that came into Britain . BRITAIN had never been visited by the Romans , and was , indeed , entirely unknown to them before the time of ...
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... side of the river , under the command of Cassibellaun , * and fenced the bank of the river and almost all the ford under water with sharp stakes : the remains of these are to be seen to this day , apparently about the thickness of a ...
... side of the river , under the command of Cassibellaun , * and fenced the bank of the river and almost all the ford under water with sharp stakes : the remains of these are to be seen to this day , apparently about the thickness of a ...
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... side . CHAP . III . Claudius , the second of the Romans who came into Britain , brought the islands Orcades into subjection to the Roman empire ; and Vespasian , sent by him , reduced the Isle of Wight under their dominion . IN the year ...
... side . CHAP . III . Claudius , the second of the Romans who came into Britain , brought the islands Orcades into subjection to the Roman empire ; and Vespasian , sent by him , reduced the Isle of Wight under their dominion . IN the year ...
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... sides neither perpendicular , nor even craggy , but sloping down into a most beautiful plain , worthy from its lovely appearance to be the scene of a martyr's sufferings . On the top of this hill , St. Alban prayed that God would give ...
... sides neither perpendicular , nor even craggy , but sloping down into a most beautiful plain , worthy from its lovely appearance to be the scene of a martyr's sufferings . On the top of this hill , St. Alban prayed that God would give ...
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... side of it , as the cities , temples , bridges , and paved roads there made , testify to this day ; but they had a right of dominion over the farther parts of Britain , as also over the islands that are beyond Britain . to St. Jerome ...
... side of it , as the cities , temples , bridges , and paved roads there made , testify to this day ; but they had a right of dominion over the farther parts of Britain , as also over the islands that are beyond Britain . to St. Jerome ...
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