The Graphic History of the British EmpireT. Nelson and Sons, 1891 - 803 Seiten |
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... ROYAL SON , IX . THE NORMAN CONQUEST , X. LIFE IN ANGLO - SAXON ENGLAND , XI . ANGLO - SAXON GOVERNMENT AND LAW , 118 103 2 E 6 8 6 6 2 288 2 96 70 74 63 49 6 st 8 2 19 18 5 47 43 39 34 00 17 Third period . - Feudal Monarchy . 1066-1485 ...
... ROYAL SON , IX . THE NORMAN CONQUEST , X. LIFE IN ANGLO - SAXON ENGLAND , XI . ANGLO - SAXON GOVERNMENT AND LAW , 118 103 2 E 6 8 6 6 2 288 2 96 70 74 63 49 6 st 8 2 19 18 5 47 43 39 34 00 17 Third period . - Feudal Monarchy . 1066-1485 ...
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... royal chairs , sounds of sacred music came floating on the breeze . The rough Jutes stood around in rapt delight and silent awe . Nearer came the song , and the words of Latin psalms and litanies , chanted by the rich deep voices of the ...
... royal chairs , sounds of sacred music came floating on the breeze . The rough Jutes stood around in rapt delight and silent awe . Nearer came the song , and the words of Latin psalms and litanies , chanted by the rich deep voices of the ...
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... royal brother gave her . Penda , King of Mercia , was one of the leading spirits in this age of storm . His chief glory was that he bound together into a compact and solid realm the disjointed fragments of which * In order to understand ...
... royal brother gave her . Penda , King of Mercia , was one of the leading spirits in this age of storm . His chief glory was that he bound together into a compact and solid realm the disjointed fragments of which * In order to understand ...
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... royal names . * Ethelwulf , the next King of Wessex , was succeeded by four sons , who reigned in turn - Ethelbald , Ethelbert , Ethel- red , and Alfred . The Danish sea - kings now gave no peace to the land . Fiercer and more frequent ...
... royal names . * Ethelwulf , the next King of Wessex , was succeeded by four sons , who reigned in turn - Ethelbald , Ethelbert , Ethel- red , and Alfred . The Danish sea - kings now gave no peace to the land . Fiercer and more frequent ...
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... royal robe was exchanged for the coarse frock of a peasant . A wet tract of land , wooded with alder trees , stood in the centre of that wide swamp through which the Parret and the Tone found their way to the Bristol Channel . † That ...
... royal robe was exchanged for the coarse frock of a peasant . A wet tract of land , wooded with alder trees , stood in the centre of that wide swamp through which the Parret and the Tone found their way to the Bristol Channel . † That ...
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Seite 516 - We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side of the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long : it made me weep to see it.
Seite 357 - 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.
Seite 189 - We can so shape transparent substances, and so arrange them with respect to our sight and objects, that rays can be broken and bent as we please, so that objects may be seen far off or near, under whatever angle we please ; and thus from an incredible distance we may read the smallest letters, and number the grains of dust and sand...
Seite 516 - ... goods, and prepare for their removal; and did by moonshine, it being brave, dry, and moonshine and warm weather, carry much of my goods into the garden; and Mr. Hater and I did remove my money and iron chests into my cellar, as thinking that the safest place. And got my bags of gold into my office, ready to carry away, and my chief papers of accounts also there, and my tallies into a box by themselves.
Seite 358 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life if it might be...
Seite 516 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more; and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid, malicious, bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Seite 235 - We are called slaves ; and, if we do not perform our services, we are beaten...
Seite 721 - December 1886 he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons...
Seite 358 - And now I come to the great thing that troubleth my conscience more than any other thing that ever I said or did in my life, and that is, the setting abroad of writings contrary to the truth which here now I renounce and refuse as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and writ for fear of death, and to save my life...
Seite 330 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.