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... gave special prominence to West - Saxon and especially to Somersetshire affairs . This was done on two grounds . It was utterly impossible to give a detailed history of all the fluctuating states which made up our elder England . I ...
... gave special prominence to West - Saxon and especially to Somersetshire affairs . This was done on two grounds . It was utterly impossible to give a detailed history of all the fluctuating states which made up our elder England . I ...
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... , to speak the truth , he was downright mad . He did all sorts of silly things ; he gave himself out for a god , and appointed priests to worship but him — one of the priests being himself , and 14 OLD - ENGLISH HISTORY .
... , to speak the truth , he was downright mad . He did all sorts of silly things ; he gave himself out for a god , and appointed priests to worship but him — one of the priests being himself , and 14 OLD - ENGLISH HISTORY .
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... gave out that he had conquered the Ocean , and ordered his soldiers to fill their helmets with shells and to take them home by way of plunder . This was in the year A.D. 40 , ninety - five years after the great Cæsar had first come over ...
... gave out that he had conquered the Ocean , and ordered his soldiers to fill their helmets with shells and to take them home by way of plunder . This was in the year A.D. 40 , ninety - five years after the great Cæsar had first come over ...
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... gave their name to the land and its people . As the Teutons in Britain began to grow together into one people , they were sometimes called the Anglo - Saxons — that is , the people made up of the Angles and Saxons - but more commonly ...
... gave their name to the land and its people . As the Teutons in Britain began to grow together into one people , they were sometimes called the Anglo - Saxons — that is , the people made up of the Angles and Saxons - but more commonly ...
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... gave it their name , so that we have always called ourselves English and our land England . But , if our old traditions are at all true , the people who founded the first lasting Teutonic kingdom in Britain were neither the Angles nor ...
... gave it their name , so that we have always called ourselves English and our land England . But , if our old traditions are at all true , the people who founded the first lasting Teutonic kingdom in Britain were neither the Angles nor ...
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