A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 |
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... bodies with an azure , or blue , called in the Celtic language brith ; which being given to the nation , or to the country , was translated by the Romans by the names of Bri- tanni , Britannia . According to the express testimony of ...
... bodies with an azure , or blue , called in the Celtic language brith ; which being given to the nation , or to the country , was translated by the Romans by the names of Bri- tanni , Britannia . According to the express testimony of ...
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... that the British Druids were the most opulent , as well as the most respected body of men in their country in the time in which they flourished ; and they bore nearly as great a proportion in numbers to 8 [ Period 1 . ROMAN INVASION .
... that the British Druids were the most opulent , as well as the most respected body of men in their country in the time in which they flourished ; and they bore nearly as great a proportion in numbers to 8 [ Period 1 . ROMAN INVASION .
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... his army into three separate bodies . As soon as the Caledonians perceived it , they suddenly united their whole forces to fall upon each of these C 2 Period 1. ] 19 ROMAN INVASION . a great number of fortresses near the same tract. ...
... his army into three separate bodies . As soon as the Caledonians perceived it , they suddenly united their whole forces to fall upon each of these C 2 Period 1. ] 19 ROMAN INVASION . a great number of fortresses near the same tract. ...
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... bodies , one after another , and they began by attack- ing the weakest . This attack , made in the night- time , and wholly unexpected , was nearly crowned with success . They had entered the enemy's camp , where all was in confusion ...
... bodies , one after another , and they began by attack- ing the weakest . This attack , made in the night- time , and wholly unexpected , was nearly crowned with success . They had entered the enemy's camp , where all was in confusion ...
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... bodies to the weapons of the barbarians , they insured the defeat of the Roman armies , and precipitated the fate of the Roman empire . 895 Its prosperity expired with the life of Theodosius in the year 395. He was succeeded by his two ...
... bodies to the weapons of the barbarians , they insured the defeat of the Roman armies , and precipitated the fate of the Roman empire . 895 Its prosperity expired with the life of Theodosius in the year 395. He was succeeded by his two ...
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Seite 32 - Whilst Alypius, assisted by the governor of the province, urged, with vigour and diligence, the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned.
Seite 351 - England was deprived at once of both these princes, its chief ornament and support: he expired in the sixty-fifth year of his age and the fifty-first of his reign; and the people were then sensible, though too late, of the irreparable loss which they had sustained.
Seite 491 - England, by people dwelling and resident in the same counties, whereof every one of them shall have free land or tenement to the value of forty shillings by the year at the least above all charges...
Seite 238 - Oxford, the place where the court then resided ; and they there received a message from the king, by the archbishop of Canterbury and the earl of Pembroke, desiring to know what those liberties were which they so zealously challenged from their sovereign. They delivered to these messengers a schedule, containing the chief articles of their demands ; which was no sooner shown to the king, than he burst into a furious passion, and asked why the barons did not also demand of him his kingdom ; swearing...
Seite 99 - ... exercises of piety which the monks represented as the most meritorious. He built churches, he endowed monasteries, he enriched the ecclesiastics, and he bestowed revenues for the support of chantries at Assington and other places ; where he appointed prayers to be said for the souls of those who had there fallen in battle against him. He even undertook a pilgrimage to Rome, where he resided a considerable time : besides obtaining from the pope some privileges for the English school erected .there,...
Seite 257 - So help me God I will keep all these articles inviolate, as I am a man, as I am a Christian, as I am a knight, and as I am a king crowned and anointed.
Seite 427 - This admirable heroine, to whom the more generous superstition of the ancients would have erected altars, was, on pretence of heresy and magic, delivered over alive to the flames, and expiated, by that dreadful punishment, the signal services which she had rendered to her prince and to her native country.
Seite 411 - ... that France and England should for ever be united under one king, but should still retain their several usages, customs, and privileges...
Seite 246 - John's death, was mareschal of England, was, by his office, at the head of the armies, and consequently, during a state of civil wars and convulsions, at the head of the 'government; and it happened, fortunately for the young monarch and for the nation, that the power could not have been intrusted into more able and more faithful hands. This...
Seite 396 - Northumberland, having recovered from his sickness, had levied a fresh army, and was on his march to join his son ; but being opposed by the Earl of Westmoreland, and hearing of the defeat at Shrewsbury, he dismissed his forces, and came with a small retinue to the king at York \ He pretended that his sole intention in arming was to mediate between the parties.