History of the English People, Volumen1Macmillan, 1885 |
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... fresh light may be thrown on our earlier history when historical criticism has done more than has yet been done for the materials given us by Ireland and Wales . For Welsh history the " Brut - y - Tywysogion " and the " Annales Cambria ...
... fresh light may be thrown on our earlier history when historical criticism has done more than has yet been done for the materials given us by Ireland and Wales . For Welsh history the " Brut - y - Tywysogion " and the " Annales Cambria ...
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... fresh division as the number of claimants grew greater or less . It was this sharing in the common land which marked off the freeman or ceorl from the unfree man or læt , the tiller of land which another owned . As the ceorl was the ...
... fresh division as the number of claimants grew greater or less . It was this sharing in the common land which marked off the freeman or ceorl from the unfree man or læt , the tiller of land which another owned . As the ceorl was the ...
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... fresh fire as he sang of the rush of the host and the crash of its shield - line . Their arms and weapons , helmet and mailshirt , tall spear and javelin , sword and seax , the short broad dagger that hung at each warrior's girdle ...
... fresh fire as he sang of the rush of the host and the crash of its shield - line . Their arms and weapons , helmet and mailshirt , tall spear and javelin , sword and seax , the short broad dagger that hung at each warrior's girdle ...
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... fresh band of Saxons , a tribe known as the Gewissas , who landed under Cerdic and Cynric on the shores of the Southampton Water , and pushed in 495 to the great downs or Gwent where Winchester offered so rich a prize . Nowhere was the ...
... fresh band of Saxons , a tribe known as the Gewissas , who landed under Cerdic and Cynric on the shores of the Southampton Water , and pushed in 495 to the great downs or Gwent where Winchester offered so rich a prize . Nowhere was the ...
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... fresh and desperate stand . Conquests of West Saxons . It was probably this conquest of Mid - Britain by the Engle that roused the West - Saxons to a new advance . For thirty years they had rested inactive within the limits of the Gwent ...
... fresh and desperate stand . Conquests of West Saxons . It was probably this conquest of Mid - Britain by the Engle that roused the West - Saxons to a new advance . For thirty years they had rested inactive within the limits of the Gwent ...
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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.