A Short History of the English PeopleHarper & Brothers, 1884 - 823 páginas |
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... fell in the moment of vic- tory ; and the flint - heap of Horsted , which has long preserved his name , and was held in after - time to mark his grave , is thus the earliest of those monuments of English valor of which Westmin- ster is ...
... fell in the moment of vic- tory ; and the flint - heap of Horsted , which has long preserved his name , and was held in after - time to mark his grave , is thus the earliest of those monuments of English valor of which Westmin- ster is ...
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... fell at last into English hands . But the greed of plun- der drew fresh war - bands from the German coast . New invaders , drawn from among the Saxons , the southern tribe of the English confederacy , were seen in 477 , some twenty ...
... fell at last into English hands . But the greed of plun- der drew fresh war - bands from the German coast . New invaders , drawn from among the Saxons , the southern tribe of the English confederacy , were seen in 477 , some twenty ...
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... fell in a fight which opened the country to these invaders , and a fresh victory at Charford in 519 set the crown of the West - Saxons on the head of Cerdic . Gildas . The English Settle- ment . We know little of the incidents of these ...
... fell in a fight which opened the country to these invaders , and a fresh victory at Charford in 519 set the crown of the West - Saxons on the head of Cerdic . Gildas . The English Settle- ment . We know little of the incidents of these ...
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... fell in the fight , " but for his oath's sake he spared his life and sold him to a Frisian at London . The Frisian was probably a merchant , such as those who were carrying English captives at that time to the market - place of Rome ...
... fell in the fight , " but for his oath's sake he spared his life and sold him to a Frisian at London . The Frisian was probably a merchant , such as those who were carrying English captives at that time to the market - place of Rome ...
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... fell fighting on the " Heaven's Field , " as after times called the field of battle , and for nine years the power of Oswald equaled that of Æthelfrith and Ead wine . It was not the Church of Paulinus which nerved Oswald to this ...
... fell fighting on the " Heaven's Field , " as after times called the field of battle , and for nine years the power of Oswald equaled that of Æthelfrith and Ead wine . It was not the Church of Paulinus which nerved Oswald to this ...
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Página 575 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 421 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Página 555 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Página 332 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Página 500 - I must tell you, there are two kings and two kingdoms in Scotland. There is King James, the head of the commonwealth, and there is Christ Jesus the King, and his kingdom the Kirk, whose subject King James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but a member.
Página 567 - Memory and her syren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 572 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 421 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Página 527 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his...
Página 450 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.