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Side 26
... official sanction and supervision the conditions of which are not clearly known to us . The date of its commencement is also uncertain , but it was evidently subsequent to the work of Bede , from which its earlier portions are in the 26.
... official sanction and supervision the conditions of which are not clearly known to us . The date of its commencement is also uncertain , but it was evidently subsequent to the work of Bede , from which its earlier portions are in the 26.
Side 29
... condition and circumstances . Mercia means a boundary , a limit . The Mark , or March , which formed the frontier of all advanced and exposed territory , was in fact the Debateable Land , the No - Man's - Ground , the scene of constant ...
... condition and circumstances . Mercia means a boundary , a limit . The Mark , or March , which formed the frontier of all advanced and exposed territory , was in fact the Debateable Land , the No - Man's - Ground , the scene of constant ...
Side 30
... condition and circumstances of England , and of Mercia , in the seventh century . The Celts had long been at any rate nominally Christians , but this fact was in no way calculated to recommend the truth to their Teutonic invaders , who ...
... condition and circumstances of England , and of Mercia , in the seventh century . The Celts had long been at any rate nominally Christians , but this fact was in no way calculated to recommend the truth to their Teutonic invaders , who ...
Side 31
... conditions , but one of the pleasures of existence , Penda himself appears as the embodiment of that fierce and warlike spirit of which the religion he and his professed , was but the expression . In Mercia , at that time , a peaceful ...
... conditions , but one of the pleasures of existence , Penda himself appears as the embodiment of that fierce and warlike spirit of which the religion he and his professed , was but the expression . In Mercia , at that time , a peaceful ...
Side 33
... condition and social manners of the time , that I cannot refrain from quoting it . About the same time another person of the British nation as it is reported , happened to travel by the same place where the aforesaid battle was fought ...
... condition and social manners of the time , that I cannot refrain from quoting it . About the same time another person of the British nation as it is reported , happened to travel by the same place where the aforesaid battle was fought ...
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Populære avsnitt
Side 68 - 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 73 - 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 35 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Side 75 - 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 51 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what...
Side 80 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
Side 65 - While we were talking came by 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...
Side 80 - Christian civilization, but by the license of a time when " every " man did what was right in his own eyes," — and when the maxim of them of old time still prevailed over every other consideration, — " Thou shalt love u thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.