A brief survey of British historyBlackie & Son, 1899 - 277 էջ |
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... chief Roman towns - Colchester , St. Albans , and London . The Romans never subdued the north , which was in- habited by the Picts , - " painted men as the Romans called them , from their habit of painting their bodies with blue dye ...
... chief Roman towns - Colchester , St. Albans , and London . The Romans never subdued the north , which was in- habited by the Picts , - " painted men as the Romans called them , from their habit of painting their bodies with blue dye ...
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... chiefs who stormed the fortress of Anderida : " Ælla and Cissa beset Anderida , and slew all that were therein ; nor was there afterwards one Briton left " . The Britons fled westwards before them , leaving be- hind little trace of ...
... chiefs who stormed the fortress of Anderida : " Ælla and Cissa beset Anderida , and slew all that were therein ; nor was there afterwards one Briton left " . The Britons fled westwards before them , leaving be- hind little trace of ...
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... chief was very much limited ; they said themselves , " the people had as many rights against him as he had against them " . " " Following on this we have their love for governing themselves by an assembly . It was an assembly of all the ...
... chief was very much limited ; they said themselves , " the people had as many rights against him as he had against them " . " " Following on this we have their love for governing themselves by an assembly . It was an assembly of all the ...
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... chiefs of the king's body - guard , who were the nobles and great land - owners of the time ; and in later days , when the Church was established in England , the archbishops and bishops sat there too . This body somewhat resembled our ...
... chiefs of the king's body - guard , who were the nobles and great land - owners of the time ; and in later days , when the Church was established in England , the archbishops and bishops sat there too . This body somewhat resembled our ...
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... chief power . This was Wessex . Egbert , its king , first subdued Kent and Sussex , and thus made himself master of England south of the Thames ; then he attacked the Mercians , and defeated and slew their king in battle , so the ...
... chief power . This was Wessex . Egbert , its king , first subdued Kent and Sussex , and thus made himself master of England south of the Thames ; then he attacked the Mercians , and defeated and slew their king in battle , so the ...
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Էջ 220 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. "Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke, Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Էջ 127 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too...
Էջ 108 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell.
Էջ 102 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Էջ 111 - Is it so?" reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne; "then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass.
Էջ 27 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Էջ 173 - Stuart is come over to claim the crown of his ancestors, to win it, or to perish in the attempt; Lochiel, who, my father has often told me, was our firmest friend, may stay at home, and learn from the newspapers the fate of his prince...
Էջ 105 - Scotland is killed by the bursting of a cannon at the siege of Roxburgh, Aug.
Էջ 117 - It is my earnest request that your majesty will send for me as soon as possible, for my condition is pitiable, not to say for a queen, but even for a simple gentlewoman. I have no other dress than that in which I escaped from the field ; my first day's ride was sixty miles across the country, and I have not since dared to travel except by night.
Էջ 102 - God's word, for all their craft and force, One moment will not linger, But, spite of hell, shall have its course; 'Tis written by his finger. And, though they take our life, Goods, honour, children, wife, Yet is their profit small; These things shall vanish all: The city of God remaineth.