History of the English People, Volumen1Harper, 1879 |
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... CHAP . I. Roman Empire . In the fifty - fifth year before Christ a descent of Julius Cæsar revealed it to the Roman world ; and a century after Caesar's landing the Emperor Claudius undertook its conquest . The work was swiftly carried ...
... CHAP . I. Roman Empire . In the fifty - fifth year before Christ a descent of Julius Cæsar revealed it to the Roman world ; and a century after Caesar's landing the Emperor Claudius undertook its conquest . The work was swiftly carried ...
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... CHAP . II . of Wessex or Mercia might follow ; and the ceaseless character of a struggle which left few intervals of rest or peace raised these leaders into a higher position than that of temporary chieftains . It was no doubt from this ...
... CHAP . II . of Wessex or Mercia might follow ; and the ceaseless character of a struggle which left few intervals of rest or peace raised these leaders into a higher position than that of temporary chieftains . It was no doubt from this ...
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John Richard Green. them a local nobility , no longer bound to actual service CHAP . II . in the king's household or the king's war - band , but still The bound ... CHAP . II . like ! From what country come 4. ] 37 EARLY ENGLAND . 449-1071 .
John Richard Green. them a local nobility , no longer bound to actual service CHAP . II . in the king's household or the king's war - band , but still The bound ... CHAP . II . like ! From what country come 4. ] 37 EARLY ENGLAND . 449-1071 .
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... CHAP . II . the Roman tufa , preceded him as he walked through the streets . The Northumbrian king became in fact supreme over Britain as no king of English blood had been before . Northward his frontier reached to the Firth of Forth ...
... CHAP . II . the Roman tufa , preceded him as he walked through the streets . The Northumbrian king became in fact supreme over Britain as no king of English blood had been before . Northward his frontier reached to the Firth of Forth ...
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John Richard Green. CHAP . II . The English 577- 796 . the Mercians on the Welsh border invited them to widen their possessions by conquest while the rest of ... CHAP . II . meaning of this change we must 1. ] 47 EARLY ENGLAND . 449-1071 .
John Richard Green. CHAP . II . The English 577- 796 . the Mercians on the Welsh border invited them to widen their possessions by conquest while the rest of ... CHAP . II . meaning of this change we must 1. ] 47 EARLY ENGLAND . 449-1071 .
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Página 243 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water; furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Página 434 - If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags.
Página 149 - Baron and freeman gathered at York round Archbishop Thurstan and marched to the field of Northallerton to await the foe. The sacred banners of St. Cuthbert of Durham, St. Peter of York, St. John of Beverley, and St. Wilfred of Ripon hung from a pole fixed in a four-wheeled car which stood in the centre of the host.
Página 371 - At the end of this century and the beginning of the next the annals that had been carried on in the Abbey of St. Albans were thrown together by Walsingham in the " Historia Anglicana "which bears his name, a compilation whose history is given in the prefaces to the "Chronica Monasterii S. Albani
Página 503 - Chaucer has received his training from war, courts, business, travel — a training not of books but of life. And it is life that he loves — the delicacy of its sentiment, the breadth of its farce, its laughter and its tears, the tenderness of its Griseldis or the Smollett-like adventures of the miller and the clerks.
Página 281 - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom ; and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave ; and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood-anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
Página 434 - Good people,' cried the preacher, 'things will never go well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we?
Página 63 - First among English scholars, first among English theologians, first among English historians, it is in the monk of Jarrow that English literature strikes its roots. In the six hundred scholars who gathered round him for instruction he is the father of our national education.
Página 561 - Duke himself, he was forced to move at last by efforts to indict him as a traitor in Ireland itself. Crossing at Michaelmas to Wales in spite of the efforts to arrest him, he gathered four thousand men on his estates and marched upon London. No serious effort was made to prevent his approach to the King; and Henry found himself helpless to resist his demand of a Parliament and of the admission of new councillors to the royal council-board. Parliament met in November, and a bitter strife between York...
Página 432 - I could not believe," said Petrarch of this time, "that this was the same France which I had seen so rich and flourishing. Nothing presented itself to my eyes but a fearful solitude, an utter poverty, land uncultivated, houses in ruins. Even the neighbourhood of Paris showed everywhere marks of desolation and conflagration. The streets are deserted, the roads overgrown with weeds, the whole is a vast solitude.