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... gave me most valuable advice as to the general arrangement of the book , founded on his own long experience of scholastic teaching . The Rev. W. HUNT looked over a considerable portion of the remaining proof - sheets , and called my ...
... gave me most valuable advice as to the general arrangement of the book , founded on his own long experience of scholastic teaching . The Rev. W. HUNT looked over a considerable portion of the remaining proof - sheets , and called my ...
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner. carried it by storm . Cassivelaunus abandoned the struggle , gave hostages to Cæsar , and promised to pay a yearly tribute . On this Cæsar returned to Gaul . Though the tribute was never paid , he had gained his ...
Samuel Rawson Gardiner. carried it by storm . Cassivelaunus abandoned the struggle , gave hostages to Cæsar , and promised to pay a yearly tribute . On this Cæsar returned to Gaul . Though the tribute was never paid , he had gained his ...
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... gave encourage- ment to the still independent Britons by their murderous sacrifices and their soothsayings . When Suetonius attempted to land ( 61 ) , a rabble of women , waving torches and shrieking defiance , rushed to meet him on the ...
... gave encourage- ment to the still independent Britons by their murderous sacrifices and their soothsayings . When Suetonius attempted to land ( 61 ) , a rabble of women , waving torches and shrieking defiance , rushed to meet him on the ...
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... gave to their appeal to him . “ The barbarians , ” they wrote , " drive us to the sea ; the sea drives us back to the barbarians ; between them we are 4492-491 JUTES AND SAXONS 27 exposed to two sorts of 26 410-449 ? THE ENGLISH ...
... gave to their appeal to him . “ The barbarians , ” they wrote , " drive us to the sea ; the sea drives us back to the barbarians ; between them we are 4492-491 JUTES AND SAXONS 27 exposed to two sorts of 26 410-449 ? THE ENGLISH ...
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... gave judgment in criminal cases as well . 13. Weregild . In early days , long before the English had left their lands beyond the sea , it was not considered to be the business of the community to punish crime . If any one was murdered ...
... gave judgment in criminal cases as well . 13. Weregild . In early days , long before the English had left their lands beyond the sea , it was not considered to be the business of the community to punish crime . If any one was murdered ...
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Page 519 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 418 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 536 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 472 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 546 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 520 - A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heavenly habitants Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal.
Page 623 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 574 - Thy instruments, to depend more upon Thyself. Pardon such as desire to trample upon the dust of a poor worm, for they are Thy People too. And pardon the folly of this short Prayer: — Even for Jesus Christ's sake. And give us a good night, if it be Thy pleasure. Amen.
Page 540 - are most of them old decayed serving-men, and tapsters, and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and courage and resolution in them...
Page 540 - You must get men of a spirit, and take it not ill what I say — I know you will not — of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go, or else you will be beaten still.