The History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George II.T. Davies, 1771 |
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... tion was ever more terrible than theirs ; be- fides the fevere penalties which they were per- . mitted to inflict in this world , they inculcated the eternal tranfmmigration of fouls , and thus extended their authority as far as the ...
... tion was ever more terrible than theirs ; be- fides the fevere penalties which they were per- . mitted to inflict in this world , they inculcated the eternal tranfmmigration of fouls , and thus extended their authority as far as the ...
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... tion , and the fubmiffions he received feemed to fatisfy his refentment : upon his death - bed he appeared fenfible of the overgrown extent of the Roman empire , and he recommended it to his fucceffors never to enlarge their terri ...
... tion , and the fubmiffions he received feemed to fatisfy his refentment : upon his death - bed he appeared fenfible of the overgrown extent of the Roman empire , and he recommended it to his fucceffors never to enlarge their terri ...
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... tion ferves to increase the splendours of your victory . Had I furrendered myself in the begin- ning of the conteft , neither my difgrace nor your ning 18 HISTORY OF ENGLAND . fhould be brought from Britain, in order to be ...
... tion ferves to increase the splendours of your victory . Had I furrendered myself in the begin- ning of the conteft , neither my difgrace nor your ning 18 HISTORY OF ENGLAND . fhould be brought from Britain, in order to be ...
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... tion . " The Emperor was affected with the British hero's misfortunes , and won by his . addrefs . He ordered him to be unchained upon the spot , with the reft of the captives , and the first use they made of their liberty was to go and ...
... tion . " The Emperor was affected with the British hero's misfortunes , and won by his . addrefs . He ordered him to be unchained upon the spot , with the reft of the captives , and the first use they made of their liberty was to go and ...
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... tion . The general who finally established the dominion of the Romans in this ifland was Ju- lius Agricola , who governed it during the reigns of Vefpafian , Titus , and Domitian , and distin- guished himself as well by his courage as ...
... tion . The general who finally established the dominion of the Romans in this ifland was Ju- lius Agricola , who governed it during the reigns of Vefpafian , Titus , and Domitian , and distin- guished himself as well by his courage as ...
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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.