History of the English People, Volumen1Harper, 1878 |
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... rule of Odoacer or Theodoric in Italy . But in Britain the invader was met by a courage almost equal to his own . Instead of quartering themselves quietly , like their fellows abroad , on subjects who were glad to buy peace by obedience ...
... rule of Odoacer or Theodoric in Italy . But in Britain the invader was met by a courage almost equal to his own . Instead of quartering themselves quietly , like their fellows abroad , on subjects who were glad to buy peace by obedience ...
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... rule . Even in the two groups of kingdoms , the five English and the five Saxon kingdoms , which occupied Britain south of the Humber , the relations of each member of the group to its fellows seem to have been merely local . It was ...
... rule . Even in the two groups of kingdoms , the five English and the five Saxon kingdoms , which occupied Britain south of the Humber , the relations of each member of the group to its fellows seem to have been merely local . It was ...
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... rule of one member of the group over the others ; while north of the Humber the feeling between the Englishmen of Yorkshire and the Englishmen who had settled towards the Firth of Forth was one of hostility rather than of friendship ...
... rule of one member of the group over the others ; while north of the Humber the feeling between the Englishmen of Yorkshire and the Englishmen who had settled towards the Firth of Forth was one of hostility rather than of friendship ...
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... rule . But his doom was the doom of Eadwine , and in a battle called the battle of the Maserfeld he was overthrown and slain For a few years after his victory at the Maserfeld , Penda stood supreme in Britain . Heathenism triumphed with ...
... rule . But his doom was the doom of Eadwine , and in a battle called the battle of the Maserfeld he was overthrown and slain For a few years after his victory at the Maserfeld , Penda stood supreme in Britain . Heathenism triumphed with ...
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... rule , but gathered on the loose Celtic model of the family or the clan round some noble and wealthy person who sought devotional retirement . The most notable and wealthy of these houses was that of Streoneshalh , where Hild , a woman ...
... rule , but gathered on the loose Celtic model of the family or the clan round some noble and wealthy person who sought devotional retirement . The most notable and wealthy of these houses was that of Streoneshalh , where Hild , a woman ...
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A History of the English People: Volume VI (1567-1611), Volumen6 John Richard Green Vista previa limitada - 1901 |
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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...