Historical reader, Issue 1

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Page 23 - The barbarians drive us to the sea ; the sea drives us back to the barbarians : between them we are exposed to two sorts of death; we are either slain or drowned.
Page 31 - And Arthur and his knighthood for a space Were all one will, and thro' that strength the King Drew in the petty princedoms under him, Fought, and in twelve great battles overcame The heathen hordes, and made a realm and reign'd.
Page 131 - In the name of God, St. Michael, and St. George, I dub thee knight — be faithful, bold, and fortunate.'] You cannot imagine, gemmen, what an effect this strange ceremony had upon the people who were assembled.
Page 26 - 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 155 - And certainly our language now used varieth far from that which was used and spoken when I was born...
Page 129 - Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean ; and thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 143 - But there was a powerful party whose voices were not heard in these deliberations, and the energetic Margaret was at large exciting them to take up arms for her son. Soon the gentle hills of England glittered again with hostile lances ; and hostile bands, collecting from all quarters, advanced to meet in two great armies...

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