 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Battles - 1851 - 376 pages
...the mother of William the Conqueror. Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no Anglo-Norman dynasty could have arisen, no British empire. The reflection is Sir Francis Palgrave's ;* and it is emphatically true. If any one should write a... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1885 - 248 pages
...and gave us William the Conqueror. Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal, of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no Anglo-Norman dynasty could have arisen, no British empire. The reflection is Sir Francis Palgrave's :l and it is emphatically true. If any one should write a... | |
 | World history - 1887 - 832 pages
...gave England William the Conqueror. Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal, of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no AngloNorman dynasty could have arisen, no British empire. The reflection is Sir Francis Palgrave's: and it is emphatically true. If any one should write a history... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 488 pages
...the mother of William the Conqueror. Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no Anglo-Norman dynasty could have arisen, no British empire. The reflection is Sir Francis Palgrave's ;* and it is emphatically true. If any one should write a... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1911 - 888 pages
...History of Normandy and England." " Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal, of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no Anglo-Norman dynasty could have arisen, no British Empire." We may tell which way the wind blew before the Deluge by marking the ripple and cupping of the rain... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1919 - 1008 pages
...horoscope, and the horoscopes of all his progenitors. Let alone Rowena's1 wassail -cup, fair Helen2 and the siege of Troy town — Arietta's pretty feet...influence of fancy or affection, seeking to please the eye or the heart, without reference to the collateral advantages resulting from family alliances : Louis-le-D^bonnaire... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 2005 - 465 pages
...History of Normandy and England." " Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal, of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no Anglo-Norman dynasty could have arisen, no British Empire." We may tell which way the wind blew before the Deluge by marking the ripple and cupping of the rain... | |
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Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no Anglo-Norman dynasty could have arisen, no British empire. 