A Short History of the English PeopleMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 872 sider |
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Side 37
... reign covered the long period from 688 to 726 , carried on during the whole of it the war for supremacy . Eastward , he forced Kent , Essex and London to own his rule . On the west , he pushed his way southward round the marshes of the ...
... reign covered the long period from 688 to 726 , carried on during the whole of it the war for supremacy . Eastward , he forced Kent , Essex and London to own his rule . On the west , he pushed his way southward round the marshes of the ...
Side 38
... reign he shrank from a conflict with the victor of Wanborough ; but with Ine's withdrawal he took up again the ... reigns of Ecgfrith's successors , Aldfrith the Learned and the four kings who followed him , the kingdom became in the ...
... reign he shrank from a conflict with the victor of Wanborough ; but with Ine's withdrawal he took up again the ... reigns of Ecgfrith's successors , Aldfrith the Learned and the four kings who followed him , the kingdom became in the ...
Side 52
... reign . The meagre lists of the kings of Wessex and of the bishops of Winchester , which had been preserved from older times , were roughly expanded into a national history by insertions from Bæda ; but it is when it reaches the reign ...
... reign . The meagre lists of the kings of Wessex and of the bishops of Winchester , which had been preserved from older times , were roughly expanded into a national history by insertions from Bæda ; but it is when it reaches the reign ...
Side 53
... reign of Eadward it is copious , and a Mercian chronicle is embedded in it ; its entries then become scanty , and are broken with grand English songs till the reign of Ethelred , when its fulness returns . " Florence of Worcester " is ...
... reign of Eadward it is copious , and a Mercian chronicle is embedded in it ; its entries then become scanty , and are broken with grand English songs till the reign of Ethelred , when its fulness returns . " Florence of Worcester " is ...
Side 59
... reign of the first Norman king that the preaching of Wulfstan and the in- fluence of Lanfranc suppressed the trade in its last stronghold , the port of Bristol . But the decrease of slavery went on side by side with an increasing ...
... reign of the first Norman king that the preaching of Wulfstan and the in- fluence of Lanfranc suppressed the trade in its last stronghold , the port of Bristol . But the decrease of slavery went on side by side with an increasing ...
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Side 759 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Side 347 - 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.
Side 419 - ... 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.
Side 578 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren 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...
Side 445 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Side 311 - Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Side 505 - James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but a member.
Side 482 - ... and that your Majesty would also vouchsafe to declare, that the awards, doings, and proceedings to the prejudice of your people, in any of the premises, shall not be drawn hereafter into consequence or example : and that your Majesty would be also graciously pleased, for the further comfort and safety of your people, to declare your royal will and pleasure, that in the things aforesaid all your officers and ministers shall serve you, according to the laws and statutes of this realm, as they tender...
Side 737 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Side 532 - 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 voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour.