Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and ReadersElizabeth Kimball Kendall Macmillan, 1900 - 483 pages |
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... are they as easily persuaded to plough the earth and to wait for the year's produce as to challenge an enemy and earn the honour of wounds . Nay , they actually think it tame and stupid to acquire by 8 Britons and Saxons.
... are they as easily persuaded to plough the earth and to wait for the year's produce as to challenge an enemy and earn the honour of wounds . Nay , they actually think it tame and stupid to acquire by 8 Britons and Saxons.
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... their love of drinking by supplying them with as much as they desire , they will be overcome by their own vices as easily as by the arms of an enemy . Sports . Passion for gambling One and the same kind ΙΟ Britons and Saxons.
... their love of drinking by supplying them with as much as they desire , they will be overcome by their own vices as easily as by the arms of an enemy . Sports . Passion for gambling One and the same kind ΙΟ Britons and Saxons.
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... enemy , who were come from the north to give battle , and obtained the victory ; which , being known at home in ... enemies for the peace and se- curity of the country , whilst the Britons agreed to furnish them with pay . Those who came ...
... enemy , who were come from the north to give battle , and obtained the victory ; which , being known at home in ... enemies for the peace and se- curity of the country , whilst the Britons agreed to furnish them with pay . Those who came ...
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... enemy for food , being destined to undergo perpetual servi- tude , if they were not killed even upon the spot . Some , with sorrowful hearts , fled beyond the seas . Others , continuing in their own country , led a miserable life among ...
... enemy for food , being destined to undergo perpetual servi- tude , if they were not killed even upon the spot . Some , with sorrowful hearts , fled beyond the seas . Others , continuing in their own country , led a miserable life among ...
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... enemy as they were coming . On board of these he placed seamen , and appointed them to watch the Meanwhile he went himself to Exeter , where the pagans were wintering , and having shut them up within the walls , laid siege to the town ...
... enemy as they were coming . On board of these he placed seamen , and appointed them to watch the Meanwhile he went himself to Exeter , where the pagans were wintering , and having shut them up within the walls , laid siege to the town ...
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Page 251 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd.
Page 281 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own. Yet fame deserved, no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access.
Page 250 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 280 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Page 445 - Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Page 446 - How humble, yet how hopeful, he could be ; How, in good fortune and in ill, the same ; Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he, Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame.
Page 281 - Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...
Page 272 - Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the fire rage every way ; and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the Fire...
Page 279 - Of whatsoe'er descent their godhead be, Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold As if he had been born of beaten gold. The Jewish Rabbins, though their enemies, In this conclude them honest men and wise ; For 'twas their duty, all the learned think, T" espouse his cause by whom they eat and drink.
Page 353 - If the Ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the King, I will not say that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. 1 will not say that the King is betrayed ; but I will pronounce that the kingdom is undone.