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Pagina 21
... held under the laws of England , but for the first five years the land was to remain undivided . A system of communism was to be established . Houses were to be built , cattle , seed and implements purchased by the company's funds , and ...
... held under the laws of England , but for the first five years the land was to remain undivided . A system of communism was to be established . Houses were to be built , cattle , seed and implements purchased by the company's funds , and ...
Pagina 29
... held by a kind of rudimentary feudal tenure , and there would be nothing to hinder the suzerain , when he felt his power sufficiently assured , from assuming the title of a King , as in fact he was exercising the kingly office . Some of ...
... held by a kind of rudimentary feudal tenure , and there would be nothing to hinder the suzerain , when he felt his power sufficiently assured , from assuming the title of a King , as in fact he was exercising the kingly office . Some of ...
Pagina 34
... held in hand as a favourable field for occasional rapine . Conscious of his probable inability to withstand his terrible enemy , Oswy had collected a large sum of money with which he vainly offered to buy off the threatened invasion ...
... held in hand as a favourable field for occasional rapine . Conscious of his probable inability to withstand his terrible enemy , Oswy had collected a large sum of money with which he vainly offered to buy off the threatened invasion ...
Pagina 35
... held under their command - followed him in this expedition . Florence of Worcester describes Penda as having mustered thirty legions , while Oswy , with his son Alfred , had but one ; a statement which may very likely be exaggerated but ...
... held under their command - followed him in this expedition . Florence of Worcester describes Penda as having mustered thirty legions , while Oswy , with his son Alfred , had but one ; a statement which may very likely be exaggerated but ...
Pagina 39
land upon the adjacent coast , and who appear to have held little regular communication with their fellow Teutons . In my endeavour to prove that the conversion of Mercia was no merely nominal and valueless change , I have been ...
land upon the adjacent coast , and who appear to have held little regular communication with their fellow Teutons . In my endeavour to prove that the conversion of Mercia was no merely nominal and valueless change , I have been ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 67 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 24 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Pagina 26 - Art, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Pagina 72 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Pagina 74 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Pagina 90 - Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage ; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe; Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Pagina 86 - Threatning to bind our soules with secular chaines : Helpe us to save free Conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose Gospell is their maw.
Pagina 64 - I saw several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched ! 8th.