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Pagina 9
... England was to be ) , but continues in the main Keltic to the present day . For when at a later date the Franks who where Germans conquered France , and gave it their name , they came there rather to rule over the original inhabitants ...
... England was to be ) , but continues in the main Keltic to the present day . For when at a later date the Franks who where Germans conquered France , and gave it their name , they came there rather to rule over the original inhabitants ...
Pagina 11
... England , the conquerors take the position of nobles , and the conquered of subjects , but the conquered race is still there , with hardly any diminution of its numbers , and gradually by sheer force of numbers it swallows up the ...
... England , the conquerors take the position of nobles , and the conquered of subjects , but the conquered race is still there , with hardly any diminution of its numbers , and gradually by sheer force of numbers it swallows up the ...
Pagina 12
... England , and to those varying proportions we have now no clue . But the conclusion to which we are driven is that , leaving Wales and Cornwall out of the question , there must be an admixture , large or small , of Keltic blood in the ...
... England , and to those varying proportions we have now no clue . But the conclusion to which we are driven is that , leaving Wales and Cornwall out of the question , there must be an admixture , large or small , of Keltic blood in the ...
Pagina 14
... England . England however was by no means the only scene of Norman conquests : Normans from Normandy ruled for a time in Sicily and in Apulia ; indeed as Macaulay has said , in every country from Palestine to Ireland they were ...
... England . England however was by no means the only scene of Norman conquests : Normans from Normandy ruled for a time in Sicily and in Apulia ; indeed as Macaulay has said , in every country from Palestine to Ireland they were ...
Pagina 16
... England , and like the Nor- mans in England would gradually lose themselves among the more 16.
... England , and like the Nor- mans in England would gradually lose themselves among the more 16.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 68 - 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 73 - 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 35 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Pagina 75 - 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 51 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what...
Pagina 80 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
Pagina 65 - While we were talking came by 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...
Pagina 80 - Christian civilization, but by the license of a time when " every " man did what was right in his own eyes," — and when the maxim of them of old time still prevailed over every other consideration, — " Thou shalt love u thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.