A Student's History of England: From the Earliest Times to 1885, Volume 2 |
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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 at Arles in Gaul . Little more than these few facts have been handed down , but there is no doubt that there was a settled Church established in the island , with sacred buildings and a regular worship . The Emperor Con- stantine ...
... held at Arles in Gaul . Little more than these few facts have been handed down , but there is no doubt that there was a settled Church established in the island , with sacred buildings and a regular worship . The Emperor Con- stantine ...
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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 to be disgraceful for a Gesith to return from battle alive if his chief had been slain . The word by which the chief was known was Hlaford ( Lord ) , which means a giver of bread , because the Gesiths ate his bread . They not only ...
... held to be disgraceful for a Gesith to return from battle alive if his chief had been slain . The word by which the chief was known was Hlaford ( Lord ) , which means a giver of bread , because the Gesiths ate his bread . They not only ...
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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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Page 489 - 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 506 - 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, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Page 392 - 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 516 - 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 444 - 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 788 - How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world ! and how much the best...
Page 40 - ... and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he had emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve...
Page 427 - ... ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 599 - In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 516 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.