History of the English People, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1877 - Great Britain |
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... 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 men was the host's ...
... 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 men was the host's ...
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... gathered in the very homeland of his race the legends of its earlier prime . But the thin veil of Christianity which he has flung over it fades away as we follow the hero - legend of VOL I 2 CHAP . I. The Conquest English Britain . 449 ...
... gathered in the very homeland of his race the legends of its earlier prime . But the thin veil of Christianity which he has flung over it fades away as we follow the hero - legend of VOL I 2 CHAP . I. The Conquest English Britain . 449 ...
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... gathered to them much of the legend and the art which gave colour and poetry to the life of Englishmen . Each sword had its name like a living thing . And next to their love of war came their love of the sea . Everywhere throughout ...
... gathered to them much of the legend and the art which gave colour and poetry to the life of Englishmen . Each sword had its name like a living thing . And next to their love of war came their love of the sea . Everywhere throughout ...
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... gathered round them their læt and slave as in their homeland by the Rhine or the Elbe . And with the English people passed to the shores of Britain all that was to make Englishmen what they are . distant and dim as their life in that ...
... gathered round them their læt and slave as in their homeland by the Rhine or the Elbe . And with the English people passed to the shores of Britain all that was to make Englishmen what they are . distant and dim as their life in that ...
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... gathered into a kingdom in 547 by Ida the " Flame - bearer " who found a site for his King's town on the impregnable rock of Bamborough ; nor was it till the reign of his fourth son Ethelric that they gained full mastery over the ...
... gathered into a kingdom in 547 by Ida the " Flame - bearer " who found a site for his King's town on the impregnable rock of Bamborough ; nor was it till the reign of his fourth son Ethelric that they gained full mastery over the ...
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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.