The preliminary history to the election of Eadward the Confessor. 3d ed., rev. 1867Clarendon Press, 1867 - Great Britain |
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... CHAP . I. when there is not even the utter overthrow of a constitu- tion , when there are only changes , however many and im- portant , wrought in an existing system , a knowledge of the earlier state of things is an absolutely ...
... CHAP . I. when there is not even the utter overthrow of a constitu- tion , when there are only changes , however many and im- portant , wrought in an existing system , a knowledge of the earlier state of things is an absolutely ...
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... CHAP . II . often retained possession of a defensible district long after the surrounding country had been occupied by the in- vaders . It is therefore quite possible that , even at the end of the sixth century , there may have been ...
... CHAP . II . often retained possession of a defensible district long after the surrounding country had been occupied by the in- vaders . It is therefore quite possible that , even at the end of the sixth century , there may have been ...
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... CHAP . II . a somewhat larger stock of Latin ecclesiastical terms1 was naturally brought in by the Christian missionaries . But , with these two very small classes of exceptions , the English language retained its purely Low - Dutch cha ...
... CHAP . II . a somewhat larger stock of Latin ecclesiastical terms1 was naturally brought in by the Christian missionaries . But , with these two very small classes of exceptions , the English language retained its purely Low - Dutch cha ...
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Edward Augustus Freeman. THE JUTISH AND SAXON KINGDOMS . 23 CHAP . II . Saxon to recover something like a continuous history , seven Kingdoms which alone supplied candidates for the domi- nion of the ... CHAP . II . Saxon in his veins . At.
Edward Augustus Freeman. THE JUTISH AND SAXON KINGDOMS . 23 CHAP . II . Saxon to recover something like a continuous history , seven Kingdoms which alone supplied candidates for the domi- nion of the ... CHAP . II . Saxon in his veins . At.
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... CHAP . II . English nation . To the vanquished Welsh the conquering Saxons and Angles had never listened , but no sooner had the Roman missionaries begun their work than another Controver- Christian element was brought in from the north ...
... CHAP . II . English nation . To the vanquished Welsh the conquering Saxons and Angles had never listened , but no sooner had the Roman missionaries begun their work than another Controver- Christian element was brought in from the north ...
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