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... victory over the Britons in forcing their passage of the Medway at the village of Aylesford . A second defeat at the passage of the Cray drove the British forces in terror upon London ; but the ground was soon won back again , and it ...
... victory over the Britons in forcing their passage of the Medway at the village of Aylesford . A second defeat at the passage of the Cray drove the British forces in terror upon London ; but the ground was soon won back again , and it ...
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... victory at Charford ended the struggle for the " Gwent " and set the crown of the West - Saxons on the head of Cerdic . But the forest - belt around it checked any further advance ; and only a year after Charford the Britons rallied ...
... victory at Charford ended the struggle for the " Gwent " and set the crown of the West - Saxons on the head of Cerdic . But the forest - belt around it checked any further advance ; and only a year after Charford the Britons rallied ...
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... victory of Conquests Aylesford only the outskirts of Britain were won . The invaders were masters as yet but of Kent , Sussex , Hamp- shire , and Essex . From London to St. David's Head , from the Andreds weald to the Firth of Forth the ...
... victory of Conquests Aylesford only the outskirts of Britain were won . The invaders were masters as yet but of Kent , Sussex , Hamp- shire , and Essex . From London to St. David's Head , from the Andreds weald to the Firth of Forth the ...
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... victory at Deorham , and the line of the great western river lay open to the arms of the conquerors . Once the West - Saxons penetrated to the borders of Chester , and Uriconium , a town beside the Wrekin which has been recently brought ...
... victory at Deorham , and the line of the great western river lay open to the arms of the conquerors . Once the West - Saxons penetrated to the borders of Chester , and Uriconium , a town beside the Wrekin which has been recently brought ...
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... victory of Deorham the conquest of the bulk of Britain was complete . Eastward of a line which may be roughly drawn along the moorlands of Northumberland and Yorkshire through Derbyshire and the Forest of Arden to the Lower Severn , and ...
... victory of Deorham the conquest of the bulk of Britain was complete . Eastward of a line which may be roughly drawn along the moorlands of Northumberland and Yorkshire through Derbyshire and the Forest of Arden to the Lower Severn , and ...
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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.