 ... overtake: when they are pursued, their escape is certain. They despise danger: they are inured to shipwreck : they are eager to purchase booty with the peril of their lives. Tempests, which to others are so dreadful, to them are subjects of joy. The...  A School History of England ... - Seite 25von John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 318 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1851 - 568 Seiten
...others are dreadful, to them are subjects of joy. The storm is their protection when they are pressed by the enemy, and a cover for their operations when they meditate an attack." Perhaps, if a Mexican bishop were to write a character of the descendants of these same Saxons, it... | |
 | John Fry - 1825 - 642 Seiten
...others are so dreadful, to them are subjects of joy. The storm is their protection when they are pressed by the enemy, and a cover for their operations when...with an affectation of equity, and the impious vow is fulfilled1." Such was the introduction of the more numerous part of our ancestors to the knowledge... | |
 | John Lingard - 1825 - 560 Seiten
...so dreadful, to them are " subjects of joy. The storm is their protection fc when they are pressed by the enemy, and a " cover for their operations when...quit their own shores, •" they devote to the altars jpf their gods, the ** tenth part of the principal captives : and when " they are on the point of returning,... | |
 | John Lingard - 1827 - 624 Seiten
...others are so dreadful, to them are subjects of joy. The storm is their protection when they are pressed by the enemy, and a cover for their operations when...affectation of equity, and the impious vow is fulfilled."* The character which is thus given of them by Sidonius, is confirmed by every ancient authority. Marcellinns... | |
 | C. St. George - 1830 - 478 Seiten
...are so dreadful, to them are subjects of joy : the storm is their protection, when they are pressed by the enemy, and a cover for their operations when...devote to the altars of their gods the tenth part of their captives, and when they are on the point of returning1, the lots are cast with an affectation... | |
 | Robert Wake - 1839 - 462 Seiten
...are so " dreadful, to them are subjects of joy. The storm is their " protection when they are pressed by the enemy, and a " cover for their operations when they meditate an attack." To this we may add an extract from one of the ancient Welsh poets, Llywarch Hen, who thus describes... | |
 | John Lingard - 1844 - 390 Seiten
...Bede, l. l5. Alfred's Version, ibid. Chron. Sal. ll. Gildas, c. xxiii. " tion when they are pressed by the enemy, and a cover "for their operations when...affectation of equity, and the " impious vow is fulfilled *." The character which is thus given of them by Sidonius, is confirmed by every ancient authority.... | |
 | John Lingard - 1849 - 550 Seiten
...are so dreadful, " to them are subjects of joy. The storm is their pro" tection when they are pressed by the enemy, and " a cover for their operations when...the " point of returning, the lots are cast with an affec" tation of equity, and the impious vow is fulfilled." ' The character which is thus given of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1851 - 566 Seiten
...others are dreadful, to them are subjects of joy. The storm is their protection when they are pressed by the enemy, and a cover for their operations when they meditate an attack." Perhaps, if a Mexican bishop were to write a character of the descendants of these same Saxons, it... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - 1853 - 406 Seiten
...lembo. — Apol. Pan. Ami. v. 370. " tj.on when they are pressed by the enemy, and a cover <4 fi\r their operations when they meditate an attack, " Before...affectation of equity, and the " impious vow is fulfilled*." The character which is thus given of them by Sidonius, is confirmed by every ancient authority. Marcellinus... | |
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