A Short History of the English PeopleHarper & Brothers, 1884 - 823 páginas |
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... held to be the special dwelling - place of the nixie and the will - o ' - the - wisp . If a stranger came through this wood or over this waste , custom bade him blow his horn as he came , for if he stole through secretly he was taken ...
... held to be the special dwelling - place of the nixie and the will - o ' - the - wisp . If a stranger came through this wood or over this waste , custom bade him blow his horn as he came , for if he stole through secretly he was taken ...
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... held in after - time to mark his grave , is thus the earliest of those monuments of English valor of which Westmin- ster is the last and noblest shrine . The victory of Aylesford did more than give East Kent to the English ; it struck ...
... held in after - time to mark his grave , is thus the earliest of those monuments of English valor of which Westmin- ster is the last and noblest shrine . The victory of Aylesford did more than give East Kent to the English ; it struck ...
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... held to be almost at an end : in another century - so ran old prophecies- their last hold on the land would be shaken off . But of submis- sion to , or even of intercourse with the strangers , there is not a word . Gildas tells us ...
... held to be almost at an end : in another century - so ran old prophecies- their last hold on the land would be shaken off . But of submis- sion to , or even of intercourse with the strangers , there is not a word . Gildas tells us ...
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... held it with his own hands till the hollow in which it was to stand was filled in by his soldiers ; then throwing himself on his knees , he cried to his army to pray to the living God . Cadwallon fell fighting on the " Heaven's Field ...
... held it with his own hands till the hollow in which it was to stand was filled in by his soldiers ; then throwing himself on his knees , he cried to his army to pray to the living God . Cadwallon fell fighting on the " Heaven's Field ...
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... held its own in the western woodlands , where the miners around Alcester drowned the voice of Bishop Ecgwine of Worces- ter , as he preached to them , with the din of their hammers . But in spite of their hammers Ecgwine's preaching ...
... held its own in the western woodlands , where the miners around Alcester drowned the voice of Bishop Ecgwine of Worces- ter , as he preached to them , with the din of their hammers . But in spite of their hammers Ecgwine's preaching ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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.