First Steps in the History of EnglandSilver, Burdett, 1902 - 324 páginas |
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... kingdoms : the South Saxons in Sus - sex ; the East Saxons in Es - sex ; the West Saxons in Wes - sex ; and the Middle Saxons in Middle - sex . The Angles also settled in different divisions of the country . In the very north , on the ...
... kingdoms : the South Saxons in Sus - sex ; the East Saxons in Es - sex ; the West Saxons in Wes - sex ; and the Middle Saxons in Middle - sex . The Angles also settled in different divisions of the country . In the very north , on the ...
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... kingdoms ; but he was not king of England . When Bæda taught and wrote at Jarrow , all the north was under the rule of Northumbria ; but this king was not king of the English . At length Egbert became king of the West Saxons . He had ...
... kingdoms ; but he was not king of England . When Bæda taught and wrote at Jarrow , all the north was under the rule of Northumbria ; but this king was not king of the English . At length Egbert became king of the West Saxons . He had ...
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... kingdom ? One day , soon after his return from Rome , Alfred and his brothers were seated around their mother , who was reading to them some poems . The book she held in her lap was of more value than the most expensive holiday edition ...
... kingdom ? One day , soon after his return from Rome , Alfred and his brothers were seated around their mother , who was reading to them some poems . The book she held in her lap was of more value than the most expensive holiday edition ...
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... kingdom had been at peace , and Alfred had had no direct ac- quaintance with warfare ; but this happy condi- tion was not destined to last . During Ethelred's reign a new enemy , the Danes , ap- peared upon the border of Wessex , and ...
... kingdom had been at peace , and Alfred had had no direct ac- quaintance with warfare ; but this happy condi- tion was not destined to last . During Ethelred's reign a new enemy , the Danes , ap- peared upon the border of Wessex , and ...
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... kingdoms , Wessex itself . Ethelred and Alfred led the Saxons against him , and in one year nine pitched battles were fought . Alfred showed himself as brave as his Saxon ancestors had been . It is related that one day the Danish army ...
... kingdoms , Wessex itself . Ethelred and Alfred led the Saxons against him , and in one year nine pitched battles were fought . Alfred showed himself as brave as his Saxon ancestors had been . It is related that one day the Danish army ...
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Página 225 - Time was when it was praise and boast enough In every clime, and travel where we might, That we were born her children. Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own.
Página 198 - 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 164 - Well, well, Master Kingston,' quoth he, ' I see the matter against me how it is framed ; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Página 217 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 172 - Night sank upon the dusky beach, and on the purple sea, Such night in England ne'er had been, nor e'er again shall be. From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St.
Página 203 - For all which treasons and crimes this Court doth adjudge that he, the said Charles Stuart, as a tyrant, traitor, murderer, and public enemy to the good people of this nation, shall be put to death by the severing of his head from his body.
Página 274 - There are thousands of houses in England at this moment where wives, mothers and children are dying of hunger. Now, when the first paroxysm of your grief is past, I would advise you to come with me and we will never rest until the Corn Law is repealed.
Página 276 - ... they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Página 120 - ... therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honours, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not. And, moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen juggling, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind.
Página 120 - Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity ; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair...