The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times, Volume 1Bradbury and Evans, 1856 - Great Britain |
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... followers , as the Druids had studious disciples . There were Bards also who sang the praises of their heroes , even as Sir Philip Sidney heard the old song of Percy and Douglas sung by some blind crowder - for the crowd , or rote , a ...
... followers , as the Druids had studious disciples . There were Bards also who sang the praises of their heroes , even as Sir Philip Sidney heard the old song of Percy and Douglas sung by some blind crowder - for the crowd , or rote , a ...
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... followers . Nearer and nearer came the galleys . And now the gazers from the cliff's could descry the legionaries and their ensigns . The armed natives crowded to the heights , shouting defiance from their natural defences . There was ...
... followers . Nearer and nearer came the galleys . And now the gazers from the cliff's could descry the legionaries and their ensigns . The armed natives crowded to the heights , shouting defiance from their natural defences . There was ...
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... followers bearing his war- trappings , and golden collars , and spoils that he had won in his native wars . His wife , and daughter , and brothers followed . But in the triumphal pomp the man him- self was the great object of curiosity ...
... followers bearing his war- trappings , and golden collars , and spoils that he had won in his native wars . His wife , and daughter , and brothers followed . But in the triumphal pomp the man him- self was the great object of curiosity ...
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... followers , in crowded wains , with which they surrounded their camp . Boadicea was borne about on a chariot , wherein sat her two daughters . The Britons advanced upon the Roman army , who remained secure in their vantage - ground ...
... followers , in crowded wains , with which they surrounded their camp . Boadicea was borne about on a chariot , wherein sat her two daughters . The Britons advanced upon the Roman army , who remained secure in their vantage - ground ...
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... followers in his terrible marches through the wild mountainous regions of the North , —we learn from that curious record of the later Roman levies , the " Notitia Imperii , ” that the permanent forces in Britain amounted to only about ...
... followers in his terrible marches through the wild mountainous regions of the North , —we learn from that curious record of the later Roman levies , the " Notitia Imperii , ” that the permanent forces in Britain amounted to only about ...
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