Great events in England's history, by the author of 'Our country's story'.John Marshall, 1873 - 223 páginas |
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... afterwards emperors , and Titus was the conqueror of Jerusalem . The Britons offered a stubborn resistance . We hear of Vespasian fighting thirty battles with the tribes inhabit- ing the country extending from Hampshire to the further ...
... afterwards emperors , and Titus was the conqueror of Jerusalem . The Britons offered a stubborn resistance . We hear of Vespasian fighting thirty battles with the tribes inhabit- ing the country extending from Hampshire to the further ...
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... afterwards so famous as Constantine the Great , the first Christian Emperor of Rome . Meantime , the Romans were leaving ineffaceable marks upon the country they had conquered . They laid down grand military roads , which went straight ...
... afterwards so famous as Constantine the Great , the first Christian Emperor of Rome . Meantime , the Romans were leaving ineffaceable marks upon the country they had conquered . They laid down grand military roads , which went straight ...
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... afterwards troubled by fresh hordes of invaders . He was only fifty - two when he died , and it is said , had fought more battles than there were years in his life ; yet it is not on these that his fame chiefly rests . Un- ceasing ...
... afterwards troubled by fresh hordes of invaders . He was only fifty - two when he died , and it is said , had fought more battles than there were years in his life ; yet it is not on these that his fame chiefly rests . Un- ceasing ...
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... afterwards assisted Ethelred ; and the church of St. Olave , in Southwark , was one of the four which were consecrated to his memory . Sweyn and his followers soon resumed their old work of destruction . They tried several times to take ...
... afterwards assisted Ethelred ; and the church of St. Olave , in Southwark , was one of the four which were consecrated to his memory . Sweyn and his followers soon resumed their old work of destruction . They tried several times to take ...
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... afterwards , left Canute without a rival , and the Witanagemot elected him to the sole sovereignty . He thus added the crown of England to those of Denmark and Norway , and the Dane ruled over the Saxon . Canute declared himself a ...
... afterwards , left Canute without a rival , and the Witanagemot elected him to the sole sovereignty . He thus added the crown of England to those of Denmark and Norway , and the Dane ruled over the Saxon . Canute declared himself a ...
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Página 126 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 118 - Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Página 38 - In the name of God, St. Michael and St. George, I make thee knight.' And he sometimes added,
Página 144 - King would yield and consent to what they desire ; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him ; and choose rather to lose my Life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend.
Página 119 - There was never anything pleased me better than the seeing the enemy flying with a southerly wind to the northwards. God grant you have a good eye to the Duke of Parma; for with the grace of God, if we live, I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
Página 118 - 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 honor and my blood, even in the dust.
Página 20 - MORTE D'ARTHUR. So all day long the noise of battle rolled Among the mountains by the winter sea ; Until King Arthur's table, man by man, Had fallen in Lyonness about their Lord, King Arthur : then, because his wound was deep, The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him, Sir Bedivere, the last of all his knights, And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark...
Página 128 - We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there...
Página 125 - And though you have had and may have many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have any that will be more careful and loving.
Página 59 - Leicester in the summons for a parliament at this time directed " the sheriffs to elect and return two knights for each county, two citizens for each city, and two burgesses for each borough in the county...