History of the English People, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1877 - Great Britain |
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... fact his sole judges ; for it was by their solemn oath of his innocence or his guilt that he had to stand or fall . of Britain . 449- 577 . The Land . As the blood - bond gave its first form to English justice , so it gave their first ...
... fact his sole judges ; for it was by their solemn oath of his innocence or his guilt that he had to stand or fall . of Britain . 449- 577 . The Land . As the blood - bond gave its first form to English justice , so it gave their first ...
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... fact the war - host , the gathering of every freeman of the tribe in arms . The head of the Folk , a head who existed only so long as war went on , was the leader whom the host chose to command it . Its Witena- gemote or meeting of wise ...
... fact the war - host , the gathering of every freeman of the tribe in arms . The head of the Folk , a head who existed only so long as war went on , was the leader whom the host chose to command it . Its Witena- gemote or meeting of wise ...
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... fact a new march or borderland between conqueror and conquered ; for here the impenetrable fastness of the Peak , the mass of Cannock Chase , and the broken country of Staffordshire enabled the Briton to make a fresh and desperate stand ...
... fact a new march or borderland between conqueror and conquered ; for here the impenetrable fastness of the Peak , the mass of Cannock Chase , and the broken country of Staffordshire enabled the Briton to make a fresh and desperate stand ...
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... fact fruitless for thirty years ; and in the height of their later power they were thrown back from the forests of Cheshire . With- It is only by realizing in this way the physical as well as drawal the moral circumstances of Britain ...
... fact fruitless for thirty years ; and in the height of their later power they were thrown back from the forests of Cheshire . With- It is only by realizing in this way the physical as well as drawal the moral circumstances of Britain ...
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... fact that it took nearly thirty years to win Kent alone and sixty to complete the conquest of Southern Britain , and ... facts . untouched . The keynote of the conquest was firmly struck . When the English invasion was stayed for a while ...
... fact that it took nearly thirty years to win Kent alone and sixty to complete the conquest of Southern Britain , and ... facts . untouched . The keynote of the conquest was firmly struck . When the English invasion was stayed for a while ...
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Page 247 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water; furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Page 375 - Robert of Avesbury, which closes in 1356. A third account by Knyghton, a canon of Leicester, will be found in the collection of Twysden. At the end of this century and the beginning of the next the annals which had been carried on in the Abbey of St. Albans were thrown together by Walsingham in the "Historia Anglicana" which bears his name, a compilation whose history may be found in the prefaces to the "Chronica Monasterii S.
Page 440 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labor, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Page 20 - Foes are they," sang a Roman poet of the time, "fierce beyond other foes, and cunning as they are fierce; the sea is their school of war, and the storm their friend; they are sea-wolves that live on the pillage of the world.
Page 503 - So that now, the year of our Lord 1385 and of the second King Richard after the Conquest nine, in all the grammar schools of England children leaveth French, and construeth and learneth in English.
Page 509 - Chaucer has received his training from war, courts, business, travel — a training not of books but of life. And it is life that he loves — the delicacy of its sentiment, the breadth of its farce, its laughter and its tears, the tenderness of its Griseldis or the Smollett-like adventures of the miller and the clerks.
Page 155 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable...
Page 67 - First among English scholars, first among English theologians, first among English historians, it is in the monk of Jarrow that English literature strikes its roots. In the six hundred scholars who gathered round him for instruction he is the father of our national education.
Page 262 - ... are filled up. The professed object of the work is to urge the necessity of a reform in the mode of philosophizing, to set forth the reasons why knowledge had not made a greater progress, to draw back attention to the sources of knowledge which had been unwisely neglected, to discover other sources which were yet almost untouched, and to animate men in the undertaking, by a prospect of the vast advantages which it offered.