William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England: From the Earliest Period to the Reign of King StephenG. Bell, 1895 - 544 pages |
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... province from the incursions of the barbarians , built his celebrated and well - known wall from sea to sea . The latter , a man , as they report , of courteous manners , left Constantine , his son by Helena , a tender of cattle , * a ...
... province from the incursions of the barbarians , built his celebrated and well - known wall from sea to sea . The latter , a man , as they report , of courteous manners , left Constantine , his son by Helena , a tender of cattle , * a ...
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... province of almost all its military force . Not long after also , one Constantine , who had been elected em- peror on account of his name , drained its whole remaining warlike strength ; but both being slain , the one by Theodo- sius ...
... province of almost all its military force . Not long after also , one Constantine , who had been elected em- peror on account of his name , drained its whole remaining warlike strength ; but both being slain , the one by Theodo- sius ...
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... provinces , is justly denominated Germany , from its germinating so many men . And as the pruner cuts off the more luxuriant branches of the tree to impart a livelier vigour to the remainder , so the inhabitants of this country assist ...
... provinces , is justly denominated Germany , from its germinating so many men . And as the pruner cuts off the more luxuriant branches of the tree to impart a livelier vigour to the remainder , so the inhabitants of this country assist ...
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... province or the east , while they might curb the Scots on the northern frontier . The king assenting , they sailed round Britain , and arriving at the Orkney Isles , the inhabitants of which they involved in the same calamity with the ...
... province or the east , while they might curb the Scots on the northern frontier . The king assenting , they sailed round Britain , and arriving at the Orkney Isles , the inhabitants of which they involved in the same calamity with the ...
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... provinces . After this , Hengist died , in the thirty - ninth year after his arrival ; he Said to be Bannesdown , near Bath . Giraldus Cambrensis says , the image of the Virgin was fixed on the inside of Arthur's shield , that he might ...
... provinces . After this , Hengist died , in the thirty - ninth year after his arrival ; he Said to be Bannesdown , near Bath . Giraldus Cambrensis says , the image of the Virgin was fixed on the inside of Arthur's shield , that he might ...
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