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Side 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 ...
Side 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 ...
Side 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 ...
Side 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.
Side 18
... England had special causes for activity . In the first place there was the abounding feeling of strength and confidence which was the result of her complete success in the tremendous struggle just finished , wherein the position she had ...
... England had special causes for activity . In the first place there was the abounding feeling of strength and confidence which was the result of her complete success in the tremendous struggle just finished , wherein the position she had ...
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Side 67 - 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.
Side 24 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Side 26 - Art, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.