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Pagina 9
... rule over the original inhabitants than to supplant them , much as the Normans did in Eng- land , and like the Normans were gradually absorbed by the people whom they had conquered . Of course though Cæsar's campaigns saved the Keltic ...
... rule over the original inhabitants than to supplant them , much as the Normans did in Eng- land , and like the Normans were gradually absorbed by the people whom they had conquered . Of course though Cæsar's campaigns saved the Keltic ...
Pagina 28
... rule , a name which cannot certainly be regarded as correct , since the number was variable and even uncertain , but which upon the whole approximates perhaps to the truth . The method of the formation of these petty sovereignties we ...
... rule , a name which cannot certainly be regarded as correct , since the number was variable and even uncertain , but which upon the whole approximates perhaps to the truth . The method of the formation of these petty sovereignties we ...
Pagina 31
... rule a warlike but unsettled race , and destined to become the terror and the scourge of all surrounding states ... rule and an unstable rule would probably have been convertible terms ; — to Penda , peace would probably have meant ...
... rule a warlike but unsettled race , and destined to become the terror and the scourge of all surrounding states ... rule and an unstable rule would probably have been convertible terms ; — to Penda , peace would probably have meant ...
Pagina 34
... rule , or of individual members of his own kingdom was made by Penda . The bluff old pagan , who adhered to the faith of his ancestors probably in the main because it was most accordant with his own warlike propensities , contented ...
... rule , or of individual members of his own kingdom was made by Penda . The bluff old pagan , who adhered to the faith of his ancestors probably in the main because it was most accordant with his own warlike propensities , contented ...
Pagina 35
... rule extended from the North Sea to the frontiers of Wales , and his long and uninterrupted career of victory offered every inducement to enlist- ment under his banner . No less than thirty kings , as they are called by the chronicler ...
... rule extended from the North Sea to the frontiers of Wales , and his long and uninterrupted career of victory offered every inducement to enlist- ment under his banner . No less than thirty kings , as they are called by the chronicler ...
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Populaire passages
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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...
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.