The History of England: The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman conquest ... In three volumesLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839 |
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... ancient MS . 148 150 ib . 151 CHAP . II . The Royal Family and Officers . The Anglo - Saxon queen The king's sons and officers 157 158 CHAP . III . The Dignity and Prerogatives of the Anglo - Saxon Cyning Five descriptions of kings in ...
... ancient MS . 148 150 ib . 151 CHAP . II . The Royal Family and Officers . The Anglo - Saxon queen The king's sons and officers 157 158 CHAP . III . The Dignity and Prerogatives of the Anglo - Saxon Cyning Five descriptions of kings in ...
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... ancient history , that a wise command of temper ought to guide and govern every thing that is done . ” 21 In another place he expatiates ardently on the benefit of lettered education . “ Nothing tends to acquire more nobly a happy life ...
... ancient history , that a wise command of temper ought to guide and govern every thing that is done . ” 21 In another place he expatiates ardently on the benefit of lettered education . “ Nothing tends to acquire more nobly a happy life ...
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... ancient law , we read of a king's grinding - servant 18 ; but both water - mills and wind - mills occur very frequently in their conveyances after that time . THEY used warm bread . 19 The life of St. Neot states , that the peasant's ...
... ancient law , we read of a king's grinding - servant 18 ; but both water - mills and wind - mills occur very frequently in their conveyances after that time . THEY used warm bread . 19 The life of St. Neot states , that the peasant's ...
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... ancient laws . But the benefits of freedom are at all times in . calculable , and have been happily progressive . If they had been no more than the power of changing their master at their own pleasure , as our present domestic servants ...
... ancient laws . But the benefits of freedom are at all times in . calculable , and have been happily progressive . If they had been no more than the power of changing their master at their own pleasure , as our present domestic servants ...
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... ancient countrywomen , that they excelled with the needle , and in gold embroidery . 30 Aldhelm's robe is described to have been made of a most delicate thread of a purple ground , and that within black circles the figures of peacocks ...
... ancient countrywomen , that they excelled with the needle , and in gold embroidery . 30 Aldhelm's robe is described to have been made of a most delicate thread of a purple ground , and that within black circles the figures of peacocks ...
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