History of the English People, Volumen1Macmillan, 1885 |
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... heads in the evil days for meat ; " the English debtor , unable to discharge his debt , flung on the ground his freeman's sword and spear , took up the labourer's mattock , and placed his head as a slave within a master's hands . The ...
... heads in the evil days for meat ; " the English debtor , unable to discharge his debt , flung on the ground his freeman's sword and spear , took up the labourer's mattock , and placed his head as a slave within a master's hands . The ...
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... head of the Folk , a head who existed only so long as war went on , was the leader whom the host chose to command it . Its Witena- gemote or meeting of wise men was the host's council of war , the gathering of those ealdormen who had ...
... head of the Folk , a head who existed only so long as war went on , was the leader whom the host chose to command it . Its Witena- gemote or meeting of wise men was the host's council of war , the gathering of those ealdormen who had ...
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... head . If by English history we mean the history of Englishmen in the land which from that time they made their own , it is with this landing of Hengest's war - band that English history begins . They landed on the shores of the Isle of ...
... head . If by English history we mean the history of Englishmen in the land which from that time they made their own , it is with this landing of Hengest's war - band that English history begins . They landed on the shores of the Isle of ...
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... Head , from the Andreds weald to the Firth of Forth the country still remained unconquered : and there was little in the years which followed Arthur's triumph to herald that onset of the invaders which was soon to make Britain England ...
... Head , from the Andreds weald to the Firth of Forth the country still remained unconquered : and there was little in the years which followed Arthur's triumph to herald that onset of the invaders which was soon to make Britain England ...
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... head - waters . Repton , Lichfield , and Tamworth mark the country of these western Englishmen , whose older name was soon lost in that of Mercians , or Men of the March . Their settlement was in fact a new march or borderland between ...
... head - waters . Repton , Lichfield , and Tamworth mark the country of these western Englishmen , whose older name was soon lost in that of Mercians , or Men of the March . Their settlement was in fact a new march or borderland between ...
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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.