Historical selections, a series of readings on English and European history, selected and arranged by E.M. Sewell and C.M. Yonge, Volum 1Elizabeth Missing Sewell 1868 |
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... possessed . True - hearted but uncouth men , with great faculties , unavailing because never roused : such they were , and such in all human probability would they have remained but for their enemies . The first of these were the Danes ...
... possessed . True - hearted but uncouth men , with great faculties , unavailing because never roused : such they were , and such in all human probability would they have remained but for their enemies . The first of these were the Danes ...
Side 8
... possessions , had been , according to all tradition , the first to lead the way to a permanent settlement , and he had undoubtedly been honoured by supplying the ecclesias- tical centre from which Christianity was spread over the land ...
... possessions , had been , according to all tradition , the first to lead the way to a permanent settlement , and he had undoubtedly been honoured by supplying the ecclesias- tical centre from which Christianity was spread over the land ...
Side 14
... possession to his suc- cessors in his own kingdom . From this time forward , Wessex remained the undisputed head of the English nation . The power of the West - Saxon kings might be assaulted , and at last overthrown , by foreign ...
... possession to his suc- cessors in his own kingdom . From this time forward , Wessex remained the undisputed head of the English nation . The power of the West - Saxon kings might be assaulted , and at last overthrown , by foreign ...
Side 16
... possessions . For a moment the land seemed conquered ; Ælfred himself lay hid in the marshes of Somerset- shire ; men ... possession of his new domi- nions , and preserved the peace with decent fidelity till his death . A large part of ...
... possessions . For a moment the land seemed conquered ; Ælfred himself lay hid in the marshes of Somerset- shire ; men ... possession of his new domi- nions , and preserved the peace with decent fidelity till his death . A large part of ...
Side 22
... possessions of individuals , portions assigned to them by common consent , which are the absolute property of their owners , held of no superior , but simply subject to such burthens as the community in its political character may think ...
... possessions of individuals , portions assigned to them by common consent , which are the absolute property of their owners , held of no superior , but simply subject to such burthens as the community in its political character may think ...
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