Selections from the Sources of English History: Being a Supplement to Text-books of English History B.C. 55-A.D. 1832Charles William Colby Longmans, Green, & Company, 1899 - 325 páginas |
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... itself here from its association with buildings . He and his folk were not dwellers in towns , and their simple valour was unavailing against the brick walls saw . of a Roman fortress . Doubtless the shops , churches xxii Introduction .
... itself here from its association with buildings . He and his folk were not dwellers in towns , and their simple valour was unavailing against the brick walls saw . of a Roman fortress . Doubtless the shops , churches xxii Introduction .
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... churches and palaces would catch his attention first and detain it longest . Nor are barbarians the only men who judge a people's might and majesty by architectural remains . Plutarch , writing 500 years after- wards , declares that the ...
... churches and palaces would catch his attention first and detain it longest . Nor are barbarians the only men who judge a people's might and majesty by architectural remains . Plutarch , writing 500 years after- wards , declares that the ...
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... Church ( No. 56 ) ; the proclamation of James I. on the subject of sports ( No. 69 ) ; and Anne's Speech to Parliament at the time of the legislative union between England and Scotland ( No. 87 ) . Dis- tinct aspects of social life or ...
... Church ( No. 56 ) ; the proclamation of James I. on the subject of sports ( No. 69 ) ; and Anne's Speech to Parliament at the time of the legislative union between England and Scotland ( No. 87 ) . Dis- tinct aspects of social life or ...
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... church- men , and monks secluded in their cloisters collected tidings of the outside world as they could get them . For every one abbey like St. Alban's , wealthy and frequented by illustrious travellers , a score of smaller houses had ...
... church- men , and monks secluded in their cloisters collected tidings of the outside world as they could get them . For every one abbey like St. Alban's , wealthy and frequented by illustrious travellers , a score of smaller houses had ...
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... Church and Brodribb . London , 1886 . The geography and inhabitants of Britain , already described by many writers , I will speak of , not that my research and ability may be compared with theirs , but because the country was then for ...
... Church and Brodribb . London , 1886 . The geography and inhabitants of Britain , already described by many writers , I will speak of , not that my research and ability may be compared with theirs , but because the country was then for ...
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Página 153 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...
Página 159 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England, too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Página 158 - My loving People, — We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Página 259 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly. This is the true act of navigation, which binds to you the commerce of the colonies, and through them secures to you the wealth of the world.
Página 42 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Página 74 - No free man shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized, or outlawed, or exiled, or any wise destroyed; nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, but by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. To none will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice.
Página 260 - It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
Página 207 - Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the fire rage every way ; and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire...
Página 162 - And though you have had and may have many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have any that will love you better.
Página 261 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our...