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Side 8
... battle which ensued the Germans , after a sharp struggle , were completely defeated , and as happened in ancient wars , destroyed ; thousands were cut down without mercy on the field , men , women , and children , and the remainder sold ...
... battle which ensued the Germans , after a sharp struggle , were completely defeated , and as happened in ancient wars , destroyed ; thousands were cut down without mercy on the field , men , women , and children , and the remainder sold ...
Side 11
... battles , as was the case for instance at the Norman conquest of 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 ...
... battles , as was the case for instance at the Norman conquest of 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 ...
Side 15
... battle of Chalons - sur - Marne in the year A.D. 451. This blow checked the Huns , and after two or three more campaigns they disappear from history . Their hand had been against every man and now in return every man's hand was against ...
... battle of Chalons - sur - Marne in the year A.D. 451. This blow checked the Huns , and after two or three more campaigns they disappear from history . Their hand had been against every man and now in return every man's hand was against ...
Side 16
the great battle at the Lechfeld , that is the Lichfield , the field of corpses , near Augsburg in the year A.D. 955. After this defeat the Magyars fell back to the fertile plains of Hungary , where they settled down and became a ...
the great battle at the Lechfeld , that is the Lichfield , the field of corpses , near Augsburg in the year A.D. 955. After this defeat the Magyars fell back to the fertile plains of Hungary , where they settled down and became a ...
Side 28
... battle equalled , but equalled in vain , the incoherency and incompetency of their plans . Apart , both natures were singularly and fatally defective , but their respective good qualities were such as were exactly calculated mutually to ...
... battle equalled , but equalled in vain , the incoherency and incompetency of their plans . Apart , both natures were singularly and fatally defective , but their respective good qualities were such as were exactly calculated mutually to ...
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ancient Annals Archbishop army Athenry Athens battle became Birmingham Bremen called castle cause century character Charles chief Christian chronicler Church City common Connaught conquest Cromwell death Dermot doctrine doubt Dublin Earl ecclesiastical Edward II Emperor Empire enemy England English Europe fact favour feeling feudal fitz France French Giraldus Greece Greek Grotius Henry Henry II historian human important influence interest invasion Ireland Irish Italy John Jus Gentium king king of Leinster knights land Leinster Lollards Lord Lord Castlereagh matter Mazzini means Meiler Mercia mind modern Montcalm moral nation nature never Parliament party Penda perhaps period Peter Peter fitz political Pope practical principles Prussia question race regard reign religious republican Richard Robert Fitz-Stephen Roman Rome rule seems society Stedingen Stedingers theory things took tribes write
Populære avsnitt
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.