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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... learned ignorance . For it is not too much to say that the actual position of this kingdom , its relation to foreign countries , the character of its people , the principles of its institutions , the elements of its wealth , the duties ...
... learned ignorance . For it is not too much to say that the actual position of this kingdom , its relation to foreign countries , the character of its people , the principles of its institutions , the elements of its wealth , the duties ...
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... learned Camden has no faith in roads before the Romans . But the celerity of Cæsar's own military movements ; the four thousand chariots which Cassivelaunus is recorded to have opposed to his progress , render it impossible to imagine ...
... learned Camden has no faith in roads before the Romans . But the celerity of Cæsar's own military movements ; the four thousand chariots which Cassivelaunus is recorded to have opposed to his progress , render it impossible to imagine ...
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... learned , not expecting that they would come , had not assembled together ; nor even when they arrived did they attack them , but fled to the marshes and woods , hoping to wear them out by delay ; and that , as had hap- pened under ...
... learned , not expecting that they would come , had not assembled together ; nor even when they arrived did they attack them , but fled to the marshes and woods , hoping to wear them out by delay ; and that , as had hap- pened under ...
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... learned historian , " that , from this period , the Caledonians and Maætæ , tribes which for two centuries had been the terror of the civilised Britons , disappear , without any ostensible cause , from the page of history . " Dr ...
... learned historian , " that , from this period , the Caledonians and Maætæ , tribes which for two centuries had been the terror of the civilised Britons , disappear , without any ostensible cause , from the page of history . " Dr ...
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... learned and the pious , in their peaceful cells , keeping alive that flame of knowledge which without them might have been extinguished for ages . Out of his cloisters at Iona the light of piety and learning is first shed by Columba ...
... learned and the pious , in their peaceful cells , keeping alive that flame of knowledge which without them might have been extinguished for ages . Out of his cloisters at Iona the light of piety and learning is first shed by Columba ...
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