School History of EnglandA.S. Barnes and Burr, 1862 - 456 pages |
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... Give some account of the education of British youth . - What arts and sciences were probably familiar to the early Britons ? B. C. 55 . CHAPTER II . THE ROMAN CONQUEST . SUCH was the island of Britain and its people , about half a ...
... Give some account of the education of British youth . - What arts and sciences were probably familiar to the early Britons ? B. C. 55 . CHAPTER II . THE ROMAN CONQUEST . SUCH was the island of Britain and its people , about half a ...
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... give up your eagle to the enemy ! I at least will do my duty to Cæsar and to the Republic ! " This deed of daring emboldened the hesitating legions . Leaping into the sea , they effected a landing , and after a sharp conflict drove the ...
... give up your eagle to the enemy ! I at least will do my duty to Cæsar and to the Republic ! " This deed of daring emboldened the hesitating legions . Leaping into the sea , they effected a landing , and after a sharp conflict drove the ...
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... give name to those days of the week , which in the old pagan times were especially consecrated to their worship . Thus , though so many centuries have gone by , Woden is still remembered in our Wednes or Woden's day , Thor in our Thor's ...
... give name to those days of the week , which in the old pagan times were especially consecrated to their worship . Thus , though so many centuries have gone by , Woden is still remembered in our Wednes or Woden's day , Thor in our Thor's ...
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... give the name to two English shires ; 6. Northumbria , or the country of the people north of the Humber ; 7. Mercia , or the woodland kingdom , which was but partially conquered by the Saxons . The most interesting event in the history ...
... give the name to two English shires ; 6. Northumbria , or the country of the people north of the Humber ; 7. Mercia , or the woodland kingdom , which was but partially conquered by the Saxons . The most interesting event in the history ...
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... give it , " said the mother , " to him among you who shall first learn to read it . " The elder brothers gave up the prize which was to be won at such a cost , but Alfred sought a teacher , learned to read Anglo- Saxon , and was ...
... give it , " said the mother , " to him among you who shall first learn to read it . " The elder brothers gave up the prize which was to be won at such a cost , but Alfred sought a teacher , learned to read Anglo- Saxon , and was ...
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Abbey Alfred archbishop archbishop of Canterbury arms army barons battle beautiful became Becket bishop brave Britain Britons brother Cæsar called Canterbury Canute castle century CHAPTER Charles Christian church clergy Conqueror conquest court Cromwell crown Danes death Describe duchy of Normandy Duke Earl Edmund Ironsides Edward Edward the Confessor Elizabeth enemies English king Ethelred exclaimed favor favorite fleet foreign fought France French king hands Harold head heart Henry Henry VIII Henry's Heptarchy Holy hundred Ireland island James King John king of England king's kingdom knights Lady laid land learned London Lord marriage married Mary monarch monasteries monks nation noble Norman Normandy parliament Picts Pope priests Prince princess prisoner queen received reign religion Richard Roman Catholics Rome royal Saxon Scotland Scots sent soldiers Thomas à Becket thousand throne took Tower town victory Westminster Abbey whilst William William the Norman young
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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...