School History of EnglandA.S. Barnes and Burr, 1862 - 456 pages |
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... years after the first landing of Cæsar , every Roman legion was withdrawn , and the conquerors took their final departure from Britain . During the five centuries of their occupation , the Romans 2 * B THE ROMAN CONQUEST . 17.
... years after the first landing of Cæsar , every Roman legion was withdrawn , and the conquerors took their final departure from Britain . During the five centuries of their occupation , the Romans 2 * B THE ROMAN CONQUEST . 17.
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... took their departure Britain was indeed abandoned ; for with the armies that left her shores sailed the flower of the British youth , and for many years the valor of Britain , instead of being employed at home , was enlisted elsewhere ...
... took their departure Britain was indeed abandoned ; for with the armies that left her shores sailed the flower of the British youth , and for many years the valor of Britain , instead of being employed at home , was enlisted elsewhere ...
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... took the title of King of England . Even the great Alfred had only styled himself " King of the West- Saxons . " 950 . At the end of fifty years the Danes of the Danelagh had no more their own royal ruler . Their country was no longer ...
... took the title of King of England . Even the great Alfred had only styled himself " King of the West- Saxons . " 950 . At the end of fifty years the Danes of the Danelagh had no more their own royal ruler . Their country was no longer ...
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... took to rid himself of the enemy , was quite as weak as the other two , and far more wicked . On the 13th of November , 1002 , known as the Festival of St. Brice , he ordered the Danes to be put to death . The fearful , trea- cherous ...
... took to rid himself of the enemy , was quite as weak as the other two , and far more wicked . On the 13th of November , 1002 , known as the Festival of St. Brice , he ordered the Danes to be put to death . The fearful , trea- cherous ...
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... took to render himself more at ease . He said to his Danish warriors , " He who brings me the head of one of my enemies , shall be dearer to me than a brother , " and the head of many a Saxon chief purchased this 34 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... took to render himself more at ease . He said to his Danish warriors , " He who brings me the head of one of my enemies , shall be dearer to me than a brother , " and the head of many a Saxon chief purchased this 34 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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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...