Great events in England's history, by the author of 'Our country's story'.John Marshall, 1873 - 223 páginas |
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... person of Edward the Confessor - a prince more fitted for a convent than a throne . He married the daughter of Godwin , the power- ful Earl of Kent , who , with his six sons as champions of the English cause , possessed great influence ...
... person of Edward the Confessor - a prince more fitted for a convent than a throne . He married the daughter of Godwin , the power- ful Earl of Kent , who , with his six sons as champions of the English cause , possessed great influence ...
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... persons were ordered to put out their fires and candles , because most of the houses being of wood were very liable to burn . The Normans revived the learning which had sunk low in England , and introduced a far nobler and grander style ...
... persons were ordered to put out their fires and candles , because most of the houses being of wood were very liable to burn . The Normans revived the learning which had sunk low in England , and introduced a far nobler and grander style ...
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... person . When a man of property died , his lands were shared among his children ; and sometimes a fresh division of all the land in the district was made by the head of the sept . This custom , which rendered everybody's holding ...
... person . When a man of property died , his lands were shared among his children ; and sometimes a fresh division of all the land in the district was made by the head of the sept . This custom , which rendered everybody's holding ...
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... persons in every hundred , as well as the nobles and clergy , to help him in amending and arranging the laws . Below the great men or nobles the Welsh were divided into two classes : the one capable of holding land , the other ...
... persons in every hundred , as well as the nobles and clergy , to help him in amending and arranging the laws . Below the great men or nobles the Welsh were divided into two classes : the one capable of holding land , the other ...
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... person , but the English troops suffered much from the difficulty of procuring provisions and from the storms which raged among the lofty mountains , where Glendower and his men found a safe retreat . Percy Earl of Northumberland and ...
... person , but the English troops suffered much from the difficulty of procuring provisions and from the storms which raged among the lofty mountains , where Glendower and his men found a safe retreat . Percy Earl of Northumberland and ...
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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...