A Short History of the English PeopleHarper & Brothers, 1884 - 823 páginas |
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... turned history into a mere record of the butchery of men by their fellow - men . But war plays a small part in the real story of European nations , and in that of England its part is smaller than in any . The only war which has ...
... turned history into a mere record of the butchery of men by their fellow - men . But war plays a small part in the real story of European nations , and in that of England its part is smaller than in any . The only war which has ...
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... turned to the east by the difficulty of forcing the fastnesses of the forest of Arden , penetrated into the valley of the Thames . A march of their King Cuthwulf's made them masters in 571 of the districts which now form Oxfordshire and ...
... turned to the east by the difficulty of forcing the fastnesses of the forest of Arden , penetrated into the valley of the Thames . A march of their King Cuthwulf's made them masters in 571 of the districts which now form Oxfordshire and ...
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... turned to combats with one another , to a long struggle for overlordship which was to end in bringing about a real national unity . In this struggle the lead was at once taken by Northumbria , which succeeded under Æthelfrith in ...
... turned to combats with one another , to a long struggle for overlordship which was to end in bringing about a real national unity . In this struggle the lead was at once taken by Northumbria , which succeeded under Æthelfrith in ...
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... turned to profit by the ambition of Penda , while Northumbria was torn with the strifes which followed Eadwine's fall . Penda united to his own Mer- cians of the Upper Trent the Middle English of Leicester , the Southumbrians , and the ...
... turned to profit by the ambition of Penda , while Northumbria was torn with the strifes which followed Eadwine's fall . Penda united to his own Mer- cians of the Upper Trent the Middle English of Leicester , the Southumbrians , and the ...
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... turned to the moral conquest of their conquerors , as if Celtic and not Latin Christianity was to mould the destinies of the Churches of the West . Oswald . 035-642 . It was possibly the progress of the Irish Columban at her very doors ...
... turned to the moral conquest of their conquerors , as if Celtic and not Latin Christianity was to mould the destinies of the Churches of the West . Oswald . 035-642 . It was possibly the progress of the Irish Columban at her very doors ...
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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
Pasajes populares
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.