History of the English People, Volumen1Macmillan, 1885 |
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... fell to its share ; while it necessarily possessed the same right of law - making for the hundred that the village- moot possessed for each separate village . And as hundred- moot stood above town - moot , so above the hundred - moot ...
... fell to its share ; while it necessarily possessed the same right of law - making for the hundred that the village- moot possessed for each separate village . And as hundred- moot stood above town - moot , so above the hundred - moot ...
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... fell or hero - gods of legend and song ; Nicor , the water - sprite who survives in our nixies and " Old Nick " ; Weland , the forger of weighty shields and sharp - biting swords , who found a later home in the " Weyland's smithy " of ...
... fell or hero - gods of legend and song ; Nicor , the water - sprite who survives in our nixies and " Old Nick " ; Weland , the forger of weighty shields and sharp - biting swords , who found a later home in the " Weyland's smithy " of ...
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... fell back at last on the fatal policy by which the Empire invited its doom while striving to avert it , the policy of matching barbarian against barbarian . By the usual promises of land and pay a band of warriors was drawn for this ...
... fell back at last on the fatal policy by which the Empire invited its doom while striving to avert it , the policy of matching barbarian against barbarian . By the usual promises of land and pay a band of warriors was drawn for this ...
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... fell fighting on the " Heaven's Field , " as after times called the field of battle ; the submission of Deira to the con- queror restored the kingdom of Northumbria ; and for nine years the power of Oswald equalled that of Eadwine . It ...
... fell fighting on the " Heaven's Field , " as after times called the field of battle ; the submission of Deira to the con- queror restored the kingdom of Northumbria ; and for nine years the power of Oswald equalled that of Eadwine . It ...
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... fell fled wailing over the waters of the Lake of Constance . For a time it seemed as if the course of the world's history was to be changed , as if the older Celtic race that Roman and German had swept before them had turned to the ...
... fell fled wailing over the waters of the Lake of Constance . For a time it seemed as if the course of the world's history was to be changed , as if the older Celtic race that Roman and German had swept before them had turned to the ...
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Página 247 - The influence of the trading class is seen in two other enactments by which freedom of journeying and trade was secured to foreign merchants and an uniformity of weights and measures was ordered to be enforced throughout the realm.
Página 520 - I am come before my time," said Lancaster, "but I will show you the reason. Your people, my lord, complain that for the space of twenty years you have ruled them harshly : however if it please God, I will help you to rule them better.
Página 440 - 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 75 - Alfred was the noblest as he was the most complete embodiment of all that is great, all that is lovable, in the English temper. He combined as no other man has ever combined its practical energy, its patient and enduring force, its profound sense of duty, the reserve and self-control that...
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 - ... every rich man built his castles, and defended them against him, and they filled the land full of castles. 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.
Página 285 - 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 244 - 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 212 - In the silent growth and elevation of the English people the boroughs led the way : unnoticed and despised by prelate and noble they had alone preserved or won back again the full tradition of Teutonic liberty. The rights of self-government, of free speech in free meeting, of equal justice by one's equals, were brought safely across the ages of tyranny by the burghers and shopkeepers of the towns.
Página 265 - It concerns the community to see what sort of men ought justly to be chosen for the weal of the realm. ' The constitutional restrictions on the royal authority, the right of the whole nation to deliberate and decide on its own affairs and to have a voice in the selection of the administrators of government, had never been so clearly stated before.