Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate A Short History of EnglandGinn, 1908 - 781 pàgines Provides primary sources on Great Britain's history taken from works such as those by Tacitus, excerpts from Beowulf, Froissart, legal statutes, love letters, Fox's book of martyrs, diaries, personal letters etc. |
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Pàgina 12
... able to follow very far , since the cavalrymen had been unable to hold to their course and to make the island . Cæsar's usual fortune failed him in this point alone . Since the enemy were overcome in this battle , as soon as they ...
... able to follow very far , since the cavalrymen had been unable to hold to their course and to make the island . Cæsar's usual fortune failed him in this point alone . Since the enemy were overcome in this battle , as soon as they ...
Pàgina 13
... able to hold to the course . Carried too far by the tide , at daybreak he found Britain lying behind him on his left . Again the tide changed and he hastened with oars to make that part of the island where he had learned the previous ...
... able to hold to the course . Carried too far by the tide , at daybreak he found Britain lying behind him on his left . Again the tide changed and he hastened with oars to make that part of the island where he had learned the previous ...
Pàgina 53
... able to compose poetry of a frivolous or idle sort ; none but such as pertained to religion suited a tongue so religious as his . Living always the life of a layman until well advanced in years , he had never learned the least thing ...
... able to compose poetry of a frivolous or idle sort ; none but such as pertained to religion suited a tongue so religious as his . Living always the life of a layman until well advanced in years , he had never learned the least thing ...
Pàgina 55
... able to learn by the hearing of the ear , and , as it were , like a clean animal chewing upon it as a cud , transformed it all into most agreeable poetry ; and , by echoing it back in a more harmonious form , made his teachers in turn ...
... able to learn by the hearing of the ear , and , as it were , like a clean animal chewing upon it as a cud , transformed it all into most agreeable poetry ; and , by echoing it back in a more harmonious form , made his teachers in turn ...
Pàgina 64
... able to bear the attack of their enemies , turned their backs and fled . But oh , shame to say , they deceived their too auda- cious pursuers , and again rallying , gained the victory . Let no one be surprised that the Christians had ...
... able to bear the attack of their enemies , turned their backs and fled . But oh , shame to say , they deceived their too auda- cious pursuers , and again rallying , gained the victory . Let no one be surprised that the Christians had ...
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Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to ... Edward Potts Cheyney Visualització completa - 1908 |
Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to ... Edward Potts Cheyney Visualització completa - 1922 |
Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to ... Edward Potts Cheyney Visualització completa - 1908 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 436 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Pàgina 410 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear...
Pàgina 480 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Pàgina 506 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Pàgina 630 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Pàgina 547 - Westminster do resolve that William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be declared king and queen of England, France and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging, to hold the crown and royal dignity of the said kingdoms and dominions to them, the said prince and princess, during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange...
Pàgina 546 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law; 7.
Pàgina 479 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Pàgina 459 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament...
Pàgina 741 - It shall not be required as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects in the school or elsewhere...