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... held were constantly breaking through to plunder the Roman territory , and he soon found that he must either allow the lands of Roman subjects to be plundered , or must carry war amongst the hostile tribes . He naturally chose the ...
... held were constantly breaking through to plunder the Roman territory , and he soon found that he must either allow the lands of Roman subjects to be plundered , or must carry war amongst the hostile tribes . He naturally chose the ...
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... held power in different parts of the island as the successors of the Roman Duke of the Britains and of the Roman Count of the Saxon Shore . Their power of resistance to the Picts and the Scots was , how- ever , weakened by the ...
... held power in different parts of the island as the successors of the Roman Duke of the Britains and of the Roman Count of the Saxon Shore . Their power of resistance to the Picts and the Scots was , how- ever , weakened by the ...
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... held by Angle tribes . Old Sarum from an engraving published in 1843 , showing mound . ( It is now obscured by trees from this point of view . ) However this may have been , they crossed the Cotswolds in 577 under two brothers , Ceawlin ...
... held by Angle tribes . Old Sarum from an engraving published in 1843 , showing mound . ( It is now obscured by trees from this point of view . ) However this may have been , they crossed the Cotswolds in 577 under two brothers , Ceawlin ...
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... held the west from the Clyde to the Channel . Unhappily for them , the Severn , the Dee , and the Solway Firth divided their land into four portions , and if an enemy coming from the east could seize upon the heads of the inlets into ...
... held the west from the Clyde to the Channel . Unhappily for them , the Severn , the Dee , and the Solway Firth divided their land into four portions , and if an enemy coming from the east could seize upon the heads of the inlets into ...
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... held the keys , should lock him out . Wilfrid triumphed , and the English Church was in all outward matters regulated in conformity with that of Rome . 23. Archbishop Theodore and the Penitential System.In 668 , four years after Oswiu's ...
... held the keys , should lock him out . Wilfrid triumphed , and the English Church was in all outward matters regulated in conformity with that of Rome . 23. Archbishop Theodore and the Penitential System.In 668 , four years after Oswiu's ...
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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.