The Venerable Bede's Ecclasiatical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon chronicleBell & Daldy, 1894 - 515 pages |
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... town , * situated between two marshes , fortified by the adjacent woods , and plentifully fur- nished with all necessaries . After this , Cæsar returned into Gaul , but he had no sooner put his legions into winter - quar- ters , than he ...
... town , * situated between two marshes , fortified by the adjacent woods , and plentifully fur- nished with all necessaries . After this , Cæsar returned into Gaul , but he had no sooner put his legions into winter - quar- ters , than he ...
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... towns were there taken and destroyed . CHAP . IV . Lucius , king of Britain , writing to Pope Eleutherus , desires to be made c Christian . In the year of our Lord's incarnation 156 , Marcus Antoninus Verus , the fourteenth from ...
... towns were there taken and destroyed . CHAP . IV . Lucius , king of Britain , writing to Pope Eleutherus , desires to be made c Christian . In the year of our Lord's incarnation 156 , Marcus Antoninus Verus , the fourteenth from ...
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... town and the arena where he was to be executed . * * There is either a corruption or great obscurity in the text of this passage . All the MSS . however agree , and yet it is impossible to translate the passage grammatically . I believe ...
... town and the arena where he was to be executed . * * There is either a corruption or great obscurity in the text of this passage . All the MSS . however agree , and yet it is impossible to translate the passage grammatically . I believe ...
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... town of St. Albans , in Hertfordshire . As the saint of this church was the first martyr in England , Pope Honorius granted the abbat a superiority over all others . In the time of Henry VIII . it fell with the rest , but the townsmen ...
... town of St. Albans , in Hertfordshire . As the saint of this church was the first martyr in England , Pope Honorius granted the abbat a superiority over all others . In the time of Henry VIII . it fell with the rest , but the townsmen ...
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... towns that had been there built for fear of the enemy , and not far from the trench of Severus . This famous wall , which is still to be seen , was built at the public and private expense , the Britons also lending their assistance . It ...
... towns that had been there built for fear of the enemy , and not far from the trench of Severus . This famous wall , which is still to be seen , was built at the public and private expense , the Britons also lending their assistance . It ...
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