The History of England: The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman conquest ... In three volumes ... 6th ed. 1836Longman, Orme, Brown and Green, and Longman, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... authorities ; but he disfigured his work by an abuse of the Keltic nations ; by attempting to add unauthorised chronologies ; by some wrong citations ; and by several untenable opinions and digressions , with which he embarrassed Dr ...
... authorities ; but he disfigured his work by an abuse of the Keltic nations ; by attempting to add unauthorised chronologies ; by some wrong citations ; and by several untenable opinions and digressions , with which he embarrassed Dr ...
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... authorities that need them , from a prac- tical sense of their own importance and power ; and every day enfeebled by inefficient chiefs , because the promotion of talent is dangerous to its em- ployers , and is impeded by the claims of ...
... authorities that need them , from a prac- tical sense of their own importance and power ; and every day enfeebled by inefficient chiefs , because the promotion of talent is dangerous to its em- ployers , and is impeded by the claims of ...
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... authority , was the characteristic of the shadowy government which they respected ; nobility arose among them from successful war ; and petty con- quests of an hostile soil laid the foundation of a territorial aristocracy . The power ...
... authority , was the characteristic of the shadowy government which they respected ; nobility arose among them from successful war ; and petty con- quests of an hostile soil laid the foundation of a territorial aristocracy . The power ...
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... authority of some other historians , p . 38. 222 . We can scarcely reduce any of the facts of ancient classical history , before the Persian war , to exact chronology . 5 " As Homer knew that the Kimmerians were in the north and west ...
... authority of some other historians , p . 38. 222 . We can scarcely reduce any of the facts of ancient classical history , before the Persian war , to exact chronology . 5 " As Homer knew that the Kimmerians were in the north and west ...
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... authorities , which remain to us in the classical writers , of the primeval population of Europe . From these it is manifest that the earliest inhabit- ants of the north of Europe were the Kimmerians or Kimbri ; and that they spread ...
... authorities , which remain to us in the classical writers , of the primeval population of Europe . From these it is manifest that the earliest inhabit- ants of the north of Europe were the Kimmerians or Kimbri ; and that they spread ...
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