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... soldiers began to falter , when a standard bearer , holding aloft the Roman eagle , and praying solemnly to the gods of his country , to make what he was about to do prove fortunate for Rome , plunged into the sea , exclaiming ...
... soldiers began to falter , when a standard bearer , holding aloft the Roman eagle , and praying solemnly to the gods of his country , to make what he was about to do prove fortunate for Rome , plunged into the sea , exclaiming ...
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... soldiers . This rampart served to keep back the barbarians , and for nearly seventy years after its erection , Roman Britain enjoyed peace . The son of Severus granted the Britons the privileges of Roman citizenship . A. D. 121 to A.D. ...
... soldiers . This rampart served to keep back the barbarians , and for nearly seventy years after its erection , Roman Britain enjoyed peace . The son of Severus granted the Britons the privileges of Roman citizenship . A. D. 121 to A.D. ...
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... soldier . By degrees , as the religion of the Saviour spread , Romans became converted , and among the armies who entered Britain there were no doubt Christian soldiers . As early as the year of our Lord 209 a Christian writer says ...
... soldier . By degrees , as the religion of the Saviour spread , Romans became converted , and among the armies who entered Britain there were no doubt Christian soldiers . As early as the year of our Lord 209 a Christian writer says ...
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... soldiers would come over and help him fight the Danes . 1002 . In this hope he was disappointed , and now the third method which he took to rid himself of the enemy , was quite as weak as the other two , and far more wicked . On the ...
... soldiers would come over and help him fight the Danes . 1002 . In this hope he was disappointed , and now the third method which he took to rid himself of the enemy , was quite as weak as the other two , and far more wicked . On the ...
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... , and you have good soldiers ; undertake boldly ; -a thing well begun is half done . " William accepted the proverb , and from that moment all his energies were taxed to accomplish the conquest of Eng- 38 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... , and you have good soldiers ; undertake boldly ; -a thing well begun is half done . " William accepted the proverb , and from that moment all his energies were taxed to accomplish the conquest of Eng- 38 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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Abbey Alfred archbishop archbishop of Canterbury arms army barons battle beautiful became Becket bishop brave Britain Britons brother Cæsar called Canterbury Canute castle century CHAPTER Charles Christian church clergy Conqueror conquest court Cromwell crown Danes death Describe duchy of Normandy Duke Earl Edmund Ironsides Edward Edward the Confessor Elizabeth enemies English king Ethelred exclaimed favor favorite fleet foreign fought France French king hands Harold head heart Henry Henry VIII Henry's Heptarchy Holy hundred Ireland island James King John king of England king's kingdom knights Lady laid land learned London Lord marriage married Mary monarch monasteries monks nation noble Norman Normandy parliament Picts Pope priests Prince princess prisoner queen received reign religion Richard Roman Catholics Rome royal Saxon Scotland Scots sent soldiers Thomas à Becket thousand throne took Tower town victory Westminster Abbey whilst William William the Norman young
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Страница 216 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Страница 455 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Страница 330 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Страница 415 - On England's annals, through the long Hereafter of her speech and song, That light its rays shall cast From portals of the past. A lady with a lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Страница 410 - Right through the line they broke ; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred.
Страница 339 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed.
Страница 183 - Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field, Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! XXXV Day dawns upon the mountain's side.
Страница 204 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Страница 374 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Страница 241 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king...