Training school reader. [Ed.] by W.J. UnwinWilliam Jordan Unwin 1862 |
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... death 70,000 persons , with all the tortures which revenge could devise . Suetonius soon succeeded in bringing the Britons to a general action in open ground . They were defeated with tremendous slaughter , reported to amount to 80,000 ...
... death 70,000 persons , with all the tortures which revenge could devise . Suetonius soon succeeded in bringing the Britons to a general action in open ground . They were defeated with tremendous slaughter , reported to amount to 80,000 ...
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... death of the last , the English nation returned to the Anglo - Saxon line , in the person of Edward , surnamed the Confessor , an amiable , but feeble prince . An injudicious practice had been introduced of giving the government of ...
... death of the last , the English nation returned to the Anglo - Saxon line , in the person of Edward , surnamed the Confessor , an amiable , but feeble prince . An injudicious practice had been introduced of giving the government of ...
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... death of William took place . He was shot whilst hunting in the New Forest , A.D. 1100 . Henry I. ( Beauclerc ) , on the death of his brother , has- tened to Winchester to secure the royal treasure , and thence to London , where he was ...
... death of William took place . He was shot whilst hunting in the New Forest , A.D. 1100 . Henry I. ( Beauclerc ) , on the death of his brother , has- tened to Winchester to secure the royal treasure , and thence to London , where he was ...
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... death of the Messiah ; because no person can certainly determine the several contingencies of his own dissolution : whence it follows , that the exact accomplishment of a prophecy of this nature , in the case of one who , during his ...
... death of the Messiah ; because no person can certainly determine the several contingencies of his own dissolution : whence it follows , that the exact accomplishment of a prophecy of this nature , in the case of one who , during his ...
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... John , a lustre which renders it one of the brightest spots in the history of our country . The death of John occurred at a E very critical period . Exasperated by his perfidy , the SECT . I. ] ENGLISH HISTORY - PLANTAGENET LINE . 49.
... John , a lustre which renders it one of the brightest spots in the history of our country . The death of John occurred at a E very critical period . Exasperated by his perfidy , the SECT . I. ] ENGLISH HISTORY - PLANTAGENET LINE . 49.
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Página 20 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 103 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Página 146 - For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, % Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Página 192 - Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise: Winds blow, and Waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity, Yet in themselves are nothing!
Página 37 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior '. His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Página 173 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 200 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Página 146 - Look how the Lion of the sea lifts up his ancient crown, And underneath his deadly paw treads the gay lilies down. So stalked he when he turned to flight, on that famed Picard field, Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Caesar's eagle shield.
Página 146 - With his white hair unbonneted, the stout old sheriff comes; Behind him march the halberdiers; before him sound the drums; His yeomen round the market cross make clear an ample space; For there behoves him to set up the standard of Her Grace.
Página 212 - As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven ! Awake, my soul ! not only passive praise Thou owest ! not alone these swelling tears, Mute thanks and secret ecstasy ! Awake, Voice of sweet song ! Awake, my Heart, awake ! Green vales and icy cliffs, all join my Hymn.