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... tion , and it is particularly incumbent on the Compiler to acknowledge , that among others , the elegant Historian of the Anglo - Saxons , the Author of the interesting History of the Court of Elizabeth , and the learned Authors of the ...
... tion , and it is particularly incumbent on the Compiler to acknowledge , that among others , the elegant Historian of the Anglo - Saxons , the Author of the interesting History of the Court of Elizabeth , and the learned Authors of the ...
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... tion will be heightened , when he knows that they are the undoubted strong holds occupied by the roman and british generals ; for each particular related by the historian concerning their respective situations , coincides with the ...
... tion will be heightened , when he knows that they are the undoubted strong holds occupied by the roman and british generals ; for each particular related by the historian concerning their respective situations , coincides with the ...
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... tion with the Cambrian Bishops was appointed ; but the imperious tone assumed by the Mission- ary was neither calculated to conciliate esteem nor persuade to submission . The mischief of unequal warfare was foretold in threatening lan ...
... tion with the Cambrian Bishops was appointed ; but the imperious tone assumed by the Mission- ary was neither calculated to conciliate esteem nor persuade to submission . The mischief of unequal warfare was foretold in threatening lan ...
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... tion to the violence of their own deaths , and the number of the enemy whom they had slain on the field of battle . Of their war chiefs , Guth- run , or Gormo , was not the least celebrated . " The cruel Guthrun , " says one of our 12 ...
... tion to the violence of their own deaths , and the number of the enemy whom they had slain on the field of battle . Of their war chiefs , Guth- run , or Gormo , was not the least celebrated . " The cruel Guthrun , " says one of our 12 ...
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... tion , and took the earliest opportunity of co- operating with their countryman , Hastings , in his invasion of England in 893. An ancient gothic arch in the wall of Hadleigh church , marks the place where his remains were deposi- ted ...
... tion , and took the earliest opportunity of co- operating with their countryman , Hastings , in his invasion of England in 893. An ancient gothic arch in the wall of Hadleigh church , marks the place where his remains were deposi- ted ...
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Page 99 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 118 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 111 - Let your first action be the lifting up of your mind to Almighty God, by hearty prayer ; and feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer, with continual meditation and thinking of Him to whom you pray, and of the matter for which you pray.
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Page 85 - ... nation should have a right to English liberties and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties — the grant of their own property — seemed a thing so incongruous that, eight years after, that is, in the thirty-fifth...
Page 112 - It will increase your force, and enlarge your breath. Delight to be cleanly as well in all parts of your body as in your garments. It shall make you grateful in each company ; and, otherwise, loathsome.
Page 143 - O'er Teme's luxuriant vale, Thy moss-grown halls, thy precincts drear, To musing Fancy's pensive ear, Unfold a varied tale. When terror stalk'd the prostrate land With savage Cambria's ruthless band, Beneath thy frowning shade.
Page 84 - The march of the human mind is slow. Sir, it was not until after two hundred years discovered that, by an eternal law, Providence had decreed vexation to violence, and poverty to rapine.
Page 30 - The too late re..! pentance pentance of this abandoned woman drove her to the madness of desperation, and in her frenzy she destroyed herself. The following curious account in Leland's Collectanea ; Tom. 1. p. 231, refers to this period. Thinges excerptid oute of an old Englisch boke yn ryme of the Gestes of Guarine and his sunnes.