The History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George II.T. Davies, 1771 |
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... fuch humble competitors , it will scarcely be thought vanity in him if he boasts himself their fuperior . Of the many abridgements of our own hiftory hither- to published , none feems poffeffed of any fhare of merit or reputation ; fome ...
... fuch humble competitors , it will scarcely be thought vanity in him if he boasts himself their fuperior . Of the many abridgements of our own hiftory hither- to published , none feems poffeffed of any fhare of merit or reputation ; fome ...
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... on the other hand , while he endeavours to a- mufe , muft frequently tranfgrefs the li- mits to which his plan fhould confine him . Thus all fuch as defire only a- mufe- A 2 D 1 mufement may be difgufted with his bre- vity , PREFACE . ii.
... on the other hand , while he endeavours to a- mufe , muft frequently tranfgrefs the li- mits to which his plan fhould confine him . Thus all fuch as defire only a- mufe- A 2 D 1 mufement may be difgufted with his bre- vity , PREFACE . ii.
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... fuch an undertaking ; and it is hoped the performance will fatisfy fuch as take up books to be informed or amused , without much confidering who the wri- ter is , or envying him any fuccefs he may have had in a former compilation . As ...
... fuch an undertaking ; and it is hoped the performance will fatisfy fuch as take up books to be informed or amused , without much confidering who the wri- ter is , or envying him any fuccefs he may have had in a former compilation . As ...
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... fuch commodities as the natives were able to produce . Thefe , it is thought , after a time , poffeffed themselves of all the maritime places where they had at first been permitted to refide . There , finding the country fertile , and ...
... fuch commodities as the natives were able to produce . Thefe , it is thought , after a time , poffeffed themselves of all the maritime places where they had at first been permitted to refide . There , finding the country fertile , and ...
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... fuch power , it is easy to fuppofe , that unani- mity could not alway be found ; whence it often happened , that the feparate tribes were defeat- ed one after the other before they could unite under a fingle leader for their mutual ...
... fuch power , it is easy to fuppofe , that unani- mity could not alway be found ; whence it often happened , that the feparate tribes were defeat- ed one after the other before they could unite under a fingle leader for their mutual ...
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affiftance againſt alfo alſo archbishop of Canterbury army barons Becket biſhop Britons brother caftle Canterbury caſtle caufe cauſe Chriftianity church clergy command confequence confiderable conqueft crown Danes death defired deſtroyed dominions duke of Normandy earl Edgar Atheling Elfrida encreaſed endeavoured enemy England Engliſh eſtabliſhed Ethelwald faid fame favour fecure feemed feized fent ferved feveral fhewed fhould fide fince firft firſt flain fome foon ftate ftill fubjects fubmiffion fubmit fucceeded fuccefs fuch fufficient Henry Heptarchy himſelf horſe ib.-his interefts invafion iſland king of France king of Scotland king's kingdom laft land Leiceſter meaſure moft monarch moſt narch Norman Normandy obliged occafion oppofed oppofition oppoſe perfon poffeffed poffeffion pope prelate pretenfions prifoner prince promiſed puniſh purpoſe raiſed refentment refiftance refolved refuſed reign Richard Romans Saxon ſeemed ſeveral ſome ſtate ſtill thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand throne tion uſed Vortigern whofe whoſe William Wincheſter
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Trang 198 - Above a hundred and forty young noblemen of the principal families of England and Normandy were lost on this occasion. A butcher of Rouen was the only person on board who escaped ;' he clung to the mast, and was taken up next morning by fishermen.
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Trang 45 - Essex, Middlesex, and part of Hertfordshire. This kingdom, which •was dismembered from that of Kent, formed the fifth Saxon principality founded in Britain. The kingdom of Mercia was the sixth which was established by these fierce invaders, comprehending all the middle counties, from the banks of the Severn to the frontiers of the two last named kingdoms.
Trang 297 - What have you done to me?" replied coolly the prisoner: "you killed with your own hands my father, and my two brothers; and you intended to have hanged myself: I am now in your power, and you may take revenge by inflicting...
Trang 335 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or dispossessed of his free tenement and liberties, or outlawed, or banished, or anywise hurt or injured, unless by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land...
Trang 316 - The next gradation of papal sentences was to absolve John's subjects from their oaths of fidelity and allegiance, and to declare every one excommunicated who had any commerce with him in public or in private ; at his table, in his council, or even in private conversation : And this sentence was accordingly, with all imaginable solemnity, pronounced against him.
Trang 198 - Henry entertained hopes for three days, that his son had put into some distant port of England; but when certain intelligence of the calamity was brought to him, he fainted away; and it was remarked that he never after was seen to smile, nor ever recovered his wonted cheerfulness.
Trang 311 - ... implied in it. He begged him to consider seriously the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, he said, being round, shadowed out eternity, which had neither beginning nor end ; and he ought thence to learn his duty of aspiring from earthly objects to heavenly, from things temporal to things eternal.
Trang 383 - At last, overcome by the cares of government and the infirmities of age, he visibly declined, and he expired at St.
Trang 320 - III. and his successors, the Kingdom of England and all other prerogatives of my crown. I will hereafter hold them as the Pope's vassal.