Senior standard history readers, Libro 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1883 |
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A.D. Began A.D. Died afterwards Alfred Anjou Archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury arms army attack Baliol banished barons battle became Becket Began to Reign bishops Bretwalda Britain Britons brother buried called Canterbury Canute castles chief Christian Church claim clergy Conqueror Conquest court crown Crusades Danes daughter Death and Character Duke Dunstan Earl Godwin Edgar Edgar Atheling Edmund Edmund Ironside Edward Edward III Edward the Elder eldest Emperor England English king Ethelred father favour favourite fief Flanders force French gave Gloucester Guienne Hardicanute Harold Henry Henry II Henry's homage invaded Ireland island John Julius Cæsar Kent king's kingdom knights land laws London marriage married Matilda Mercia Miscellaneous Facts monks nobles Norman Normandy Parliament peace Philip Picts Pope possession Prince prisoner quarrel ravaged returned Richard RICHARD II Robert Roman royal Saxon Scotland Scots sent ships soon Stephen Sweyn throne took Tostig vassal Wales Wessex wife William Winchester Witan
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Página 35 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have be,en esteemed useful engines of government.
Página 23 - ... and the Turk. In the awful confusion of the moment some of the besieged made their way to the citadel, and there shut themselves in, ready to resist to the death. Of the rest few escaped; ten thousand, it is said, were massacred. Baghasian with some friends passed out beyond the besiegers' lines, but, fainting from loss of blood, he fell from his horse, and his companions hurried on. A Syrian Christian heard his groans, and striking off his head carried the prize to the camp of the conquerors....
Página 86 - It is called the the exchequer, gcaccharium, from the chequed cloth, resembling a chess-board, which covers the table there ; and on which, when certain of the king's accounts are made up, the sums are marked and scored with counters.
Página 11 - The barbarians chase us into the sea, the sea throws us back upon the barbarians, and we have only the hard choice left us of perishing by the sword, or perishing by the waves.
Página 63 - ... Constable at the coronation of James ; served against Monmouth; and escorted D'Adda, the Papal nuncio, on his entry to London ; but later grew disaffected toward his uncle, and was suspected of conspiring with Churchill (the future Duke of Marlborough) against him. He joined William at Axminster, and was one of the first to take the oath of allegiance to him. Subsequently he took service with Churchill in Ireland, and was killed while leading the attack en Cork. He was a typical sailor, and was...
Página 71 - To rise at five, to dine at nine, To sup at five, to sleep at nine. The famous king Petosiris's magic was different...
Página 142 - Every person having an annual income of more than one hundred pence was obliged to furnish himself with a serviceable bow and arrows, and every village was furnished with pricks, butts, and rovers for the competition of the people.
Página 53 - ... detestation in which he was held, he entertained a perpetual jealousy of the English. He built and garrisoned strong castles to keep them in awe; and in the wantonness of his power he obliged them to extinguish their fires and candles every evening at the ring of a bell called
Página 118 - they are kneeling — they ask mercy ! " " They do, my liege," replied Umfraville, " but it is from God, not from us. Trust me, yon men will win the day, or die upon the field.
Página 126 - French army took to flight, and was followed and put to the sword, without mercy, till the darkness of the night put an end to the pursuit. The king, on his return to the camp, flew into the arms of the Prince of Wales, and exclaimed, " My brave son ! persevere in your honorable course ; you are my son ; for valiantly have you acquitted yourself to-day, and worthy are you of a crown.