The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688Cadell and Davies, 1812 - Great Britain |
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... violence , and from that moment he gave up all thoughts of recovery , but submitted with the utmost cheer- fulness , and the most perfect complacency and resigna- tion . Upon his return to Edinburgh , though he found himself much weaker ...
... violence , and from that moment he gave up all thoughts of recovery , but submitted with the utmost cheer- fulness , and the most perfect complacency and resigna- tion . Upon his return to Edinburgh , though he found himself much weaker ...
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... violent efforts . No idolatrous worship ever attained such an ascend- ant over mankind as that of the ancient Gauls ... violence which had never , in any other instance , been practised by those tolerating conquerors ' . THE The ROMANS ...
... violent efforts . No idolatrous worship ever attained such an ascend- ant over mankind as that of the ancient Gauls ... violence which had never , in any other instance , been practised by those tolerating conquerors ' . THE The ROMANS ...
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... violent extremi- ties , and roused to indignation against their trea- cherous auxiliaries , were necessitated to take arms ; and having deposed Vortigern , who had become odious from his vices , and from the bad event of his rash ...
... violent extremi- ties , and roused to indignation against their trea- cherous auxiliaries , were necessitated to take arms ; and having deposed Vortigern , who had become odious from his vices , and from the bad event of his rash ...
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... violent an animosity against the ancient inhabitants . As the Saxons came over at intervals in separate bodies , the Bri- tons , however at first unwarlike , were tempted to make resistance ; and hostilities being thereby pro- longed ...
... violent an animosity against the ancient inhabitants . As the Saxons came over at intervals in separate bodies , the Bri- tons , however at first unwarlike , were tempted to make resistance ; and hostilities being thereby pro- longed ...
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... violence ought ever to be used in propa- gating so salutary a doctrine " . THE intelligence received of these spiritual con- quests afforded great joy to the Romans ; who now exulted as much in those peaceful trophies , as their ...
... violence ought ever to be used in propa- gating so salutary a doctrine " . THE intelligence received of these spiritual con- quests afforded great joy to the Romans ; who now exulted as much in those peaceful trophies , as their ...
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