A Short History of the English PeopleHarper & Brothers, 1884 - 823 páginas |
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... reign from 758 to 796 covers with that of Ethelbald nearly the whole of the eighth century , it rose to a height unknown before . The energy of the new king was shown in his struggle with the Welsh on his western border . Since the ...
... reign from 758 to 796 covers with that of Ethelbald nearly the whole of the eighth century , it rose to a height unknown before . The energy of the new king was shown in his struggle with the Welsh on his western border . Since the ...
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... reign . The meagre lists of the kings of Wessex and of the bish- ops of Winchester , which had been preserved from older times , were roughly expanded into a national history by insertions from Bæda ; but it is when it reaches the reign ...
... reign . The meagre lists of the kings of Wessex and of the bish- ops of Winchester , which had been preserved from older times , were roughly expanded into a national history by insertions from Bæda ; but it is when it reaches the reign ...
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... reign of Eadward it is copious , and a Mercian chronicle is im- bedded in it ; its entries then become scanty , and are broken with grand English songs till the reign of Ethelred , when its fullness returns . " Florence of Worces- ter ...
... reign of Eadward it is copious , and a Mercian chronicle is im- bedded in it ; its entries then become scanty , and are broken with grand English songs till the reign of Ethelred , when its fullness returns . " Florence of Worces- ter ...
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... reign , how war riors and wise councilors stood round his throne , and Welsh and Scot and Briton obeyed him . His was the one figure that stood out bright against the darkness when England lay trodden under- foot by Norman conquerors ...
... reign , how war riors and wise councilors stood round his throne , and Welsh and Scot and Briton obeyed him . His was the one figure that stood out bright against the darkness when England lay trodden under- foot by Norman conquerors ...
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... reign of Rich- ard the Fearless the Danish descents upon the English coast had CONQUEROR found support in Normandy , and their fleet had wintered in her ports . It was to revenge these attacks that Ethelred had dispatch- ed a fleet ...
... reign of Rich- ard the Fearless the Danish descents upon the English coast had CONQUEROR found support in Normandy , and their fleet had wintered in her ports . It was to revenge these attacks that Ethelred had dispatch- ed a fleet ...
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Términos y frases comunes
alliance Angevins Archbishop army baronage barons battle became bill bishops boroughs broke brought Catholic Charles Church civil clergy conquest Council Court Cromwell Crown danger death defeat Duke Earl ecclesiastical Edward Elizabeth England English fell Flanders fleet followed force France freedom French fresh gave glish hands head Henry Henry's House of Commons House of Lancaster Ireland Irish James King King's kingdom land Lewis liament liberty Lollards London Long Parliament Lord marriage Mary ment Mercia ministers Ministry nation nobles Norman Normandy North Northumbria once Parlia Parliament party passed peace Pitt political Prince Protestant Protestantism Puritan Queen realm reform refused reign religion religious restored revival revolt roused royal Scotch Scotland Scots seemed soon Spain stood struggle summoned temper Test Act thegns thousand throne tion Tories town Treaty tyranny victory Wessex Whigs whole William
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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.