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Pagina 12
... died by her own hand . 7. AGRICOLA . It was in the year 78 after the birth of Christ that the great general and statesman Julius Agricola took the command in Britain , and his deeds both of peace and war have had the good fortune to be ...
... died by her own hand . 7. AGRICOLA . It was in the year 78 after the birth of Christ that the great general and statesman Julius Agricola took the command in Britain , and his deeds both of peace and war have had the good fortune to be ...
Pagina 14
... died . 211. Caracalla , his son and successor , being anxious to return to Rome , was induced to conclude a hasty peace with them , and formally ceded all the district to the north of the Solway and Tyne . 9. For nearly seventy years ...
... died . 211. Caracalla , his son and successor , being anxious to return to Rome , was induced to conclude a hasty peace with them , and formally ceded all the district to the north of the Solway and Tyne . 9. For nearly seventy years ...
Pagina 24
... died with the crown on his head . Six were murdered by their kinsmen or rivals , five were expelled by their subjects , and two became monks . Mercia rose upon the ruins of Nor- thumbria , and in 737 , Ethelbald , its king , was monarch ...
... died with the crown on his head . Six were murdered by their kinsmen or rivals , five were expelled by their subjects , and two became monks . Mercia rose upon the ruins of Nor- thumbria , and in 737 , Ethelbald , its king , was monarch ...
Pagina 27
... died in consequence of a wound re- ceived in battle , and left his crown to Alfred , the only surviving and the most renowned of all the sons of 871. Ethelwulf . A. D. 3. ALFRED , the glory of our Saxon monarchs , had scarcely time to ...
... died in consequence of a wound re- ceived in battle , and left his crown to Alfred , the only surviving and the most renowned of all the sons of 871. Ethelwulf . A. D. 3. ALFRED , the glory of our Saxon monarchs , had scarcely time to ...
Pagina 35
... died at the early age of thirty - two . It was the great aim of Dunstan's life to assimilate the Anglo - Saxon Church to that of Rome ; but the specific points of difference are not in all instances very clear . While rejecting the ...
... died at the early age of thirty - two . It was the great aim of Dunstan's life to assimilate the Anglo - Saxon Church to that of Rome ; but the specific points of difference are not in all instances very clear . While rejecting the ...
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History of Great Britain and Ireland: With an Account of the Present State ... Henry White Vizualizare completă - 1871 |
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Pagina 229 - From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Pagina 229 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading ; Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer : And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin), yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. Ever witness for him Those twins of learning that he raised in you, Ipswich and Oxford! one* of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it ; The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous,...
Pagina 229 - His overthrow heaped happiness upon him ; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing God.
Pagina 270 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a King, and of a King of England too...
Pagina 83 - ... of forest laws, imported from the continent, whereby the slaughter of a beast was made almost as penal as the death of a man. In the Saxon times, though no man was allowed to kill or chase the king's deer, yet he might start any game, pursue, and kill it upon his own estate.
Pagina 229 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Pagina 63 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o...
Pagina 270 - I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Pagina 63 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Pagina 321 - Consider, it will soon carry you a great way ; it will carry you from earth to heaven ; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.