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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... followed in the same path . Their publications have spread the useful taste , and contributed to obtain for our venerable forefathers the attention of their enlightened pos- terity . To gratify more fully this patriotic cu- riosity ...
... followed in the same path . Their publications have spread the useful taste , and contributed to obtain for our venerable forefathers the attention of their enlightened pos- terity . To gratify more fully this patriotic cu- riosity ...
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... followed each other , at intervals so distinct , as to possess languages clearly separable from each other . The earliest of these , we shall find to have comprised the Kimmerian and Keltic race . The second consisted of the Scythian ...
... followed each other , at intervals so distinct , as to possess languages clearly separable from each other . The earliest of these , we shall find to have comprised the Kimmerian and Keltic race . The second consisted of the Scythian ...
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... followed by a progeny , still more dissimilar to every thing which they had quitted . In some , the alteration was a deteriorating process , declining successively into absolute barbarism . But in the far greater number it became rather ...
... followed by a progeny , still more dissimilar to every thing which they had quitted . In some , the alteration was a deteriorating process , declining successively into absolute barbarism . But in the far greater number it became rather ...
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... followed its first great fracture , and too moveable and too jealous of restricting laws , to have a regular go- - they became fierce , proud , and iras- vernment , - I. I. BOOK cible ; easily excited , rugged in manners ANGLO - SAXONS .
... followed its first great fracture , and too moveable and too jealous of restricting laws , to have a regular go- - they became fierce , proud , and iras- vernment , - I. I. BOOK cible ; easily excited , rugged in manners ANGLO - SAXONS .
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... followed next , and have principally peopled it ; and that the Sarmatian , or Slavonic people , have been the latest colonists . Other nations have entered it , at more recent periods , as the Huns and the Romans ; and some others have ...
... followed next , and have principally peopled it ; and that the Sarmatian , or Slavonic people , have been the latest colonists . Other nations have entered it , at more recent periods , as the Huns and the Romans ; and some others have ...
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Common terms and phrases
æra afterwards Alaric ancestors ancient Saxons Angles Anglo-Saxon Armorica army Arthur attack authority barbarians barbaric battle became Bede BOOK Britain British Britons Cæsar called celebrated century Cerdic CHAP Chauci Cherusci Christian Chron Chronicle chronology Cimbri civil civilised civitates coast conquest Constantine Danube death deity destroyed Edda Elbe emperor enemies England Europe Euxine express Flor Francs Gaul German Gibbon Gildas Gothic Goths Gwrtheyrn Hengist Herodotus Hist Honorius human Ibid idol imperial inhabitants invaders invasion island Jeffry Jutes Keltic Kelts Kent Kimmerians king kingdom Krantz language Mascou Maximus mentioned Mercia military mind monath nations natives Nennius northern numbers ocean Odin Offa origin Orosius period Picts plunder Pontanus population provinces Ptolemy race regions reign remarks Rhine Roman empire Rome Saxons says Scythian Stilicho Strabo success sword Tacitus Theodosius tion tribes Welsh Weser Wessex Woden Zosimus