History of the English People, Volumen1Harper, 1878 |
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... 4. THE DOMINIONS OF THE ANGEVINS . 160 5. IRELAND JUST BEFORE THE ENGLISH INVASION 176 6. SCOTLAND IN 1290 345 7. FRANCE AT THE TREATY OF BRETIGNY 440 8. THE WARS OF THE ROSES . 574 BOOK I. EARLY ENGLAND . 449-1071 . AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK.
... 4. THE DOMINIONS OF THE ANGEVINS . 160 5. IRELAND JUST BEFORE THE ENGLISH INVASION 176 6. SCOTLAND IN 1290 345 7. FRANCE AT THE TREATY OF BRETIGNY 440 8. THE WARS OF THE ROSES . 574 BOOK I. EARLY ENGLAND . 449-1071 . AUTHORITIES FOR BOOK.
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... Scotland an Irish refugee , Columba , had raised the famous mission - station of Iona . It was within its walls Aidan . that Oswald in youth found refuge , and on his accession to the throne of Northumbria he called for missionaries ...
... Scotland an Irish refugee , Columba , had raised the famous mission - station of Iona . It was within its walls Aidan . that Oswald in youth found refuge , and on his accession to the throne of Northumbria he called for missionaries ...
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... Scotland . from this time to be the key - note of the national history . Without , the Dane was no longer a terror ; on the contrary it was English ships and English soldiers who now appeared in the North and followed Cnut in his cam ...
... Scotland . from this time to be the key - note of the national history . Without , the Dane was no longer a terror ; on the contrary it was English ships and English soldiers who now appeared in the North and followed Cnut in his cam ...
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... Scotland took the Feudalism head of the Northumbrian revolt ; in the south - west the Monarchy . men of Devon , Somerset , and Dorset gathered to the sieges of Exeter and Montacute ; while a new Norman castle at Shrewsbury alone bridled ...
... Scotland took the Feudalism head of the Northumbrian revolt ; in the south - west the Monarchy . men of Devon , Somerset , and Dorset gathered to the sieges of Exeter and Montacute ; while a new Norman castle at Shrewsbury alone bridled ...
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... Scotland where Eadgar the Ætheling had again found refuge and where his sister Margaret had become wife of King Malcolm . It was probably some assurance of Malcolm's aid which roused the Mercian Earls , Eadwine and Morkere , to a fresh ...
... Scotland where Eadgar the Ætheling had again found refuge and where his sister Margaret had become wife of King Malcolm . It was probably some assurance of Malcolm's aid which roused the Mercian Earls , Eadwine and Morkere , to a fresh ...
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Página 438 - Good people," cried the preacher, " things will never he well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we ? On what grounds have they deserved it ? Why do they hold us in serfage ? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride...
Página 245 - 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 373 - A third account by Knyghton, a canon of Leicester, will be found in the collection of Twysden.
Página 283 - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom ; and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave ; and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood-anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
Página 241 - Why do they not ask for my kingdom ? " he cried. " I will never grant such liberties as will make me a slave ! " The imperialist theories of the lawyers of his father's court had done their work. Held at bay by the practical sense of Henry, they had told on the more headstrong nature of his sons.
Página 242 - But in itself the Charter was no novelty, nor did it claim to establish any new constitutional principles. The Charter of Henry the First formed the basis of the whole, and the additions to it are for the most part formal recognitions of the judicial and administrative changes introduced by Henry the Second. But the vague expressions of the older charters were now exchanged for precise and elaborate provisions.
Página 485 - English of his tracts, the speech of the ploughman and the trader of the day though colored with the picturesque phraseology of the Bible, is in its literary use as distinctly a creation of his own as the style in which he embodied it, the terse vehement sentences, the stinging sarcasms, the hard antitheses which roused the dullest mind like a whip.
Página 126 - Stark he was to men that withstood him,"- says the chronicler of his English system of government, " so harsh and cruel was he that none dared withstand his will. Earls that did aught against his bidding he cast into bonds; bishops he stripped of their bishoprics, abbots of their abbacies. He spared not his own brother: first he was in the land, but the king cast him into bondage. If a man would live and hold his lands, need it were he followed the king's will.
Página 46 - ... and then flying forth from the other vanishes into the wintry darkness whence it came. So tarries for a moment the life of man in our sight, but what is before it, what after it, we know not. If this new teaching tells us aught certainly of these, let us follow it.
Página 262 - Notwithstanding, certain it is that if those schoolmen to their great thirst of truth and unwearied travail of wit had joined variety and universality of reading and contemplation, they had proved excellent lights, to the great advancement of all learning and knowledge...