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Pagina 18
... result of her complete success in the tremendous struggle just finished , wherein the position she had assumed was that of the champion of Protestantism . The national mind was in exaltation and cager for new opportunities . But there ...
... result of her complete success in the tremendous struggle just finished , wherein the position she had assumed was that of the champion of Protestantism . The national mind was in exaltation and cager for new opportunities . But there ...
Pagina 28
... result , in the formation of a national character complete , powerful , and admirable , as I believe , beyond comparison . At the time with which we are now concerned , the long continued influx of the Saxons had resulted in the gradual ...
... result , in the formation of a national character complete , powerful , and admirable , as I believe , beyond comparison . At the time with which we are now concerned , the long continued influx of the Saxons had resulted in the gradual ...
Pagina 30
... result of their victory ; while it was not until 577 that the West Saxons obtained cities so important , and so little remote as Gloucester , Cirencester and Bath . Data such as these may be entirely irreconcilable with the precon ...
... result of their victory ; while it was not until 577 that the West Saxons obtained cities so important , and so little remote as Gloucester , Cirencester and Bath . Data such as these may be entirely irreconcilable with the precon ...
Pagina 32
... result of this war was naturally a serious discouragement to the Christian religion , which had been so recently established in Northumbria , and to which King Eadwine had been one of the most notable and valued converts ; and Penda ...
... result of this war was naturally a serious discouragement to the Christian religion , which had been so recently established in Northumbria , and to which King Eadwine had been one of the most notable and valued converts ; and Penda ...
Pagina 36
Details of the conduct of the battle we have none , but its result could scarcely have been more conclusive . The Northumbrians must have fought with a fury which more than compensated for all the deficiency of their numbers , and which ...
Details of the conduct of the battle we have none , but its result could scarcely have been more conclusive . The Northumbrians must have fought with a fury which more than compensated for all the deficiency of their numbers , and which ...
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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...
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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.