The History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George II.T. Davies, 1771 |
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... fufficient for the purposes of life , recourse has been had only to those au- thors which are best known , and thofe facts only have been selected , which are allowed on all hands to be true . Were an epitome of hiftory the field for ...
... fufficient for the purposes of life , recourse has been had only to those au- thors which are best known , and thofe facts only have been selected , which are allowed on all hands to be true . Were an epitome of hiftory the field for ...
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... fufficient to obferve , that this beautiful ifland , by fome thought the largest in the world , was called Britannia by the Romans long before the time of Cæfar . It is fuppofed , that this name was ori- ginally given it by the ...
... fufficient to obferve , that this beautiful ifland , by fome thought the largest in the world , was called Britannia by the Romans long before the time of Cæfar . It is fuppofed , that this name was ori- ginally given it by the ...
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... fufficient to raise the people above mere barbarians ; but yet loft all their native fplendor in the transplantation . The Eng- lifh , at this time , might be confidered as po- lite , if compared to the naked Britons at the invafion of ...
... fufficient to raise the people above mere barbarians ; but yet loft all their native fplendor in the transplantation . The Eng- lifh , at this time , might be confidered as po- lite , if compared to the naked Britons at the invafion of ...
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... fufficient to render his name odious to pofte- rity . He married Judith , his own mother - in- law , and was , not without great difficulty , prevailed upon to divorce her . The reign of his brother was of longer duration ; and , as we ...
... fufficient to render his name odious to pofte- rity . He married Judith , his own mother - in- law , and was , not without great difficulty , prevailed upon to divorce her . The reign of his brother was of longer duration ; and , as we ...
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... fufficient to bring back happiness , fecurity , and order ; and all the calamities of the times found redress from Alfred . This prince feemed born not only to defend his bleeding country , but even to adorn humanity . He had given very ...
... fufficient to bring back happiness , fecurity , and order ; and all the calamities of the times found redress from Alfred . This prince feemed born not only to defend his bleeding country , but even to adorn humanity . He had given very ...
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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.
Trang 22 - Suetonius in a great and decisive battle, where 80,000 of the Britons are said to have perished; and Boadicea herself, rather than fall into the hands of the enraged victor, put an end to her own life by poison.
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.