Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's Abridgment of the History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George II : with a Continuation to the Close of the Year 1830 : Also, a Dictionary, Biographical, Historical, &c., Explaining Every Difficulty and Rendering the Whole Easy to be Understood, and Questions for Examination at the End of Each Section, Besides a Variety of Valuable Information Added Throughout the Work, Consisting of Useful and Correct Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of England, from Egbert to William the Fourth, Tables of Contemporary Sovereigns and Eminent Persons, an Account of the Idols Worshipped by the Saxons, Remarks on the Politics, Manners, and Literature of the Age, an Outline of the Constitution, &c. &c. : the Whole Illustrated by Copious Explanatory Notes, a Classical and Modern Map of England and Wales, and Portraits of the Sovereigns |
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... mean time , as the Roman forces decreased in Bri- tain , the Picts and Scots 11 continued still more boldly to infest the northern parts ; and crossing the friths , which the Romans could not guard , in little wicker boats , covered ...
... mean time , as the Roman forces decreased in Bri- tain , the Picts and Scots 11 continued still more boldly to infest the northern parts ; and crossing the friths , which the Romans could not guard , in little wicker boats , covered ...
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... means can the easy conquest of the Britons be accounted for ? 7. How did the Saxons obtain possession of the ... mean time , while the Saxons were thus gaining ground in the West , their countrymen were not less active in other parts of ...
... means can the easy conquest of the Britons be accounted for ? 7. How did the Saxons obtain possession of the ... mean time , while the Saxons were thus gaining ground in the West , their countrymen were not less active in other parts of ...
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... means towards their conversion . In this manner the other kingdoms , one after the other , embraced the faith : and England was soon as famous for its superstition , as it had once been for its averseness to Christianity * . Questions ...
... means towards their conversion . In this manner the other kingdoms , one after the other , embraced the faith : and England was soon as famous for its superstition , as it had once been for its averseness to Christianity * . Questions ...
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... means he was enabled to repel the future incursions of the Danes . He afterwards established a regular po- lice ; dividing the kingdom into counties , and the counties into hundred and tithings . So well regulated was the police which ...
... means he was enabled to repel the future incursions of the Danes . He afterwards established a regular po- lice ; dividing the kingdom into counties , and the counties into hundred and tithings . So well regulated was the police which ...
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... mean time Robert , instead of employing himself in levies , to support his friends in England , squan- dered his ... means to encroach still farther upon Robert's possessions . Every conspiracy thus detected served to enrich the king ...
... mean time Robert , instead of employing himself in levies , to support his friends in England , squan- dered his ... means to encroach still farther upon Robert's possessions . Every conspiracy thus detected served to enrich the king ...
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Page 183 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it.
Page 158 - Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 403 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 222 - Pym, and Strode. The articles were, That they had traitorously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental laws and government of the kingdom, to deprive the king of his regal power, and to impose on his subjects an arbitrary and tyrannical authority...
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Page 349 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.