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... already a charac- teristic of the race . War was the Englishman's " shield- play " and " sword - gaine " ; the gleeman's verse took fresh fire as he sang of the rush of the host and the crash of its shield - line . Their arms and ...
... already a charac- teristic of the race . War was the Englishman's " shield- play " and " sword - gaine " ; the gleeman's verse took fresh fire as he sang of the rush of the host and the crash of its shield - line . Their arms and ...
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... already making themselves dreaded . Its flat bottom en- abled them to beach the vessel on any fitting coast ; and a step on shore at once transformed the boatmen into a war- band . From the first the daring of the English race broke out ...
... already making themselves dreaded . Its flat bottom en- abled them to beach the vessel on any fitting coast ; and a step on shore at once transformed the boatmen into a war- band . From the first the daring of the English race broke out ...
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... already made , and fitted by a common temper and common customs to draw together into our English nation in the days to come , that our fathers left their German home - land for the land in which we live . Their social and political ...
... already made , and fitted by a common temper and common customs to draw together into our English nation in the days to come , that our fathers left their German home - land for the land in which we live . Their social and political ...
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... drift towards national unity had already begun , but from the moment of Ethelfrith's vic- tory this drift became the main current of our history . The 577- 796 . CHAP . II . Masters of 1. ] 43 EARLY ENGLAND . 449-1071 .
... drift towards national unity had already begun , but from the moment of Ethelfrith's vic- tory this drift became the main current of our history . The 577- 796 . CHAP . II . Masters of 1. ] 43 EARLY ENGLAND . 449-1071 .
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... already asserted his superiority over the four other English tribes of Mid- Britain before he could have ventured to attack Wessex and tear from it in 628 the country of the Hwiccas and Magesætas on the Severn . Even with this accession ...
... already asserted his superiority over the four other English tribes of Mid- Britain before he could have ventured to attack Wessex and tear from it in 628 the country of the Hwiccas and Magesætas on the Severn . Even with this accession ...
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abbey Ælfred Angevin Archbishop army attack baronage barons became Bishop borough Britain broke brought Calais castles CHAP Charter Chronicle Church claim clergy common Conqueror conquest court Crown death Duke Duke of Burgundy Ealdorman Earl ecclesiastical Edward the Third England English Englishmen fell feudal followed forced foreign France French fresh Gascony gathered gave Gloucester ground Guienne hands head held Hengest Henry the Second Henry's House of Lancaster John John of Gaunt justice Justiciar King King's kingdom knights labour Lancaster land Lollard London lord ment Mercia monks nobles Norman Normandy North Northmen Northumbria once Oxford Papal Parliament passed peace Peasant Revolt Philip political Pope prelates Prince realm refused reign Roman Rome rose roused royal Council Scotland scutage shire Simon Statute strife struggle summoned temper thegns throne town victory villeins Wales Welsh Wessex William Wyclif
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Página 247 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water; furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Página 375 - Robert of Avesbury, which closes in 1356. A third account by Knyghton, a canon of Leicester, will be found in the collection of Twysden. At the end of this century and the beginning of the next the annals which had been carried on in the Abbey of St. Albans were thrown together by Walsingham in the "Historia Anglicana" which bears his name, a compilation whose history may be found in the prefaces to the "Chronica Monasterii S.
Página 440 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labor, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Página 20 - Foes are they," sang a Roman poet of the time, "fierce beyond other foes, and cunning as they are fierce; the sea is their school of war, and the storm their friend; they are sea-wolves that live on the pillage of the world.
Página 503 - So that now, the year of our Lord 1385 and of the second King Richard after the Conquest nine, in all the grammar schools of England children leaveth French, and construeth and learneth in English.
Página 509 - Chaucer has received his training from war, courts, business, travel — a training not of books but of life. And it is life that he loves — the delicacy of its sentiment, the breadth of its farce, its laughter and its tears, the tenderness of its Griseldis or the Smollett-like adventures of the miller and the clerks.
Página 155 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable...
Página 67 - First among English scholars, first among English theologians, first among English historians, it is in the monk of Jarrow that English literature strikes its roots. In the six hundred scholars who gathered round him for instruction he is the father of our national education.
Página 262 - ... are filled up. The professed object of the work is to urge the necessity of a reform in the mode of philosophizing, to set forth the reasons why knowledge had not made a greater progress, to draw back attention to the sources of knowledge which had been unwisely neglected, to discover other sources which were yet almost untouched, and to animate men in the undertaking, by a prospect of the vast advantages which it offered.