School History of EnglandA.S. Barnes and Burr, 1862 - 456 pages |
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... CHURCH - DISSENTERS XXXVIII - CONDITION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . - LEARNING- PAINTING - ARCHITECTURE - COMMERCE - MANUFACTURES 201-206 206-214 214-220 • 220-224 XXXIX . - CONDITION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ...
... CHURCH - DISSENTERS XXXVIII - CONDITION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . - LEARNING- PAINTING - ARCHITECTURE - COMMERCE - MANUFACTURES 201-206 206-214 214-220 • 220-224 XXXIX . - CONDITION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ...
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... church , St. Martin's without the walls of Canterbury , was appropriated to their use , and in a few months King Ethelbert received Christian baptism . Soon ten thousand of his subjects followed his example . This cheering news so ...
... church , St. Martin's without the walls of Canterbury , was appropriated to their use , and in a few months King Ethelbert received Christian baptism . Soon ten thousand of his subjects followed his example . This cheering news so ...
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Augusta Blanche Berard. In less than ninety years Cathedral Church of St. Paul's . from the first coming of St. Augustin and his forty monks , nearly the whole of the Saxon Heptarchy had been converted to Christianity . Churches and ...
Augusta Blanche Berard. In less than ninety years Cathedral Church of St. Paul's . from the first coming of St. Augustin and his forty monks , nearly the whole of the Saxon Heptarchy had been converted to Christianity . Churches and ...
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... church or monastery , or a pilgrimage to Rome , atoned , it was believed , for the darkest crimes . Thus the wicked Elfrida , the mother of King Ethelred the Unready , in her old age , founded churches and monasteries , to make amends ...
... church or monastery , or a pilgrimage to Rome , atoned , it was believed , for the darkest crimes . Thus the wicked Elfrida , the mother of King Ethelred the Unready , in her old age , founded churches and monasteries , to make amends ...
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... church . This reforma- tion consisted in obliging those priests who were married ( secular clergy they were called ) to put away their wives , abandon their families , and go to live in monasteries , like the monks or regulars . The ...
... church . This reforma- tion consisted in obliging those priests who were married ( secular clergy they were called ) to put away their wives , abandon their families , and go to live in monasteries , like the monks or regulars . The ...
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Page 216 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 455 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 330 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 415 - On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Page 410 - Right through the line they broke ; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred.
Page 339 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed.
Page 183 - Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field, Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! XXXV Day dawns upon the mountain's side.
Page 204 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 374 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 241 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king...