The Story of the Greatest Nations: From the Dawn of History to the Twentieth Century; a Comprehensive History, Founded Upon the Leading Authorities, Including a Complete Chronology of the World, and a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Each Nation, Volum 6F.R. Niglutsch, 1905 |
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Pàgina 967
... - folk and South - folk ) , were less important . These seven leading kingdoms are often referred to as the Heptarchy , though they were forever at strife with one another . Their warring indeed was so incessant that it.
... - folk and South - folk ) , were less important . These seven leading kingdoms are often referred to as the Heptarchy , though they were forever at strife with one another . Their warring indeed was so incessant that it.
Pàgina 967
... important gods . Our Wednesday is Woden's Day and Thursday is Thor's Day , the names having been preserved to the present time . Augustine was so successful that he established the first cathedral of Canterbury , of which he became ...
... important gods . Our Wednesday is Woden's Day and Thursday is Thor's Day , the names having been preserved to the present time . Augustine was so successful that he established the first cathedral of Canterbury , of which he became ...
Pàgina 969
... importance have never been surpassed . This heroic figure , whose millennary was celebrated with imposing ceremonies in 1901 , was ALFRED THE GREAT . It is fitting that so illustrious a personage should re- ceive special attention in ...
... importance have never been surpassed . This heroic figure , whose millennary was celebrated with imposing ceremonies in 1901 , was ALFRED THE GREAT . It is fitting that so illustrious a personage should re- ceive special attention in ...
Pàgina 981
... important events that now quickly followed , it will be instructive to study the social conditions of England during that period , and the years that preceded it . The government rested in an elective sovereign , who was aided by the ...
... important events that now quickly followed , it will be instructive to study the social conditions of England during that period , and the years that preceded it . The government rested in an elective sovereign , who was aided by the ...
Pàgina 989
... important work of blending and fusing together two peoples and civiliza- tions . Still , as has been said , the English were not conquered by another race , but by a more vigorous branch of their own race . • At times there was not a ...
... important work of blending and fusing together two peoples and civiliza- tions . Still , as has been said , the English were not conquered by another race , but by a more vigorous branch of their own race . • At times there was not a ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Story of the Greatest Nations, from the Dawn of ..., Volum 6;Volum 30 Edward Sylvester Ellis Visualització completa - 1906 |
The Story of the Greatest Nations, From the Dawn of History to the Twentieth ... Edward Sylvester Ellis Previsualització no disponible - 2018 |
The Story of the Greatest Nations: From the Dawn of History to ..., Volums 5-6 Edward Sylvester Ellis Previsualització no disponible - 2016 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 1135 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Pàgina 1111 - 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. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Pàgina 1037 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Pàgina 1135 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Pàgina 1041 - 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.
Pàgina 1027 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Pàgina 1061 - I vainly thought myself a courtly young gentleman (for we courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes). Icame into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor...
Pàgina 1135 - Will You solemnly promise and swear to govern the People of this United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dominions thereto belonging, according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the respective Laws and Customs of the same ? King.
Pàgina 1073 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Pàgina 1061 - ... a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish; his voice sharp and untunable ; and his eloquence full of fervour, for the subject-matter would not bear much of reason, it being in behalf...