 | Francis Palgrave - Anglo-Saxons - 1831 - 450 pages
...his worst : when he placed the crown upon the head of Ethelred, he accompanied it by a curse. — ' Even as, by the death of thy brother, thou didst aspire...the isle of Britain, even until the present time.' There is no reason to suppose that Ethelred, a child of eleven years of age, had, in any way, assented... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - Great Britain - 1831 - 450 pages
...his worst: when he placed the crown upon the head of Ethelred, he accompanied it by a curse. — ' Even as, by the death of thy brother, thou didst aspire...the isle of Britain, even until the present time." There is no reason to suppose that Ethelred, a child of eleven years of age, had, in any way, assented... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pages
...prevented such a denunciation as the following ;• so subversive of peace, so pregnant with evil: — "Even as by the death of thy brother thou didst aspire...her accomplices shall rest upon thy head ; and such disasters shall fall upon the English as they have never yet suffered from the days when they first... | |
 | PERCY B. ST. JOHN - 1848 - 460 pages
...prevented such a denunciation as the following ; so subversive of peace, so pregnant with evil: — "Even as by the death of thy brother thou didst aspire...her accomplices shall rest upon thy head ; and such disasters shall fall upon the English as they have never yet suffered from the days when they first... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 530 pages
...when he placed the crown on the head of the youthful monarch, he accompanied it by a curse : — " Even as by the death of thy brother thou didst aspire...the isle of Britain, even until the present time."' These invectives were a most inauspicious augury for a new reign ; and his imprecations, though they... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1856 - 552 pages
...he placed the crown upon his head, he pronounced this curse : 150 CROWNING OF ETHELRED. [AD 979. " Even as, by the death of thy brother, thou didst aspire...the isle of Britain, even until the present time." * As Edward was murdered by the cruel policy of one party, so was Ethelred inducted into an unhappy... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 832 pages
...when he placed the crown on the head of the youthful monarch, he accompanied it by a curse : — " Even as by the death of thy brother thou didst aspire...came into the isle of Britain, even until the present time."1 These invectives were a most inauspicious augury for a new reign ; and his imprecations, though... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - Anglo-Saxons - 1837 - 426 pages
...did his worst : when he placed the crown upon the head of Ethelred, he accompanied it by a curse. " Even as, by the death of thy brother, thou didst aspire...the isle of Britain, even until the present time." There is no reason to suppose that Ethelred, a child of eleven years of age, had, in any way, assented... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - Anglo-Saxons - 1867 - 510 pages
...did his worst : when he placed the crown upon the head of Ethelred, he accompanied it by a curse. " Even as, by the death of thy brother, thou didst aspire...the isle of Britain, even until the present time." There is no reason to suppose that Etbelred, a child of eleven years of age, had, in any way, assented... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - Constitutional history - 1869 - 484 pages
...did his worst : when he placed the crown upon the head of Ethelred, he accompanied it by a curse. " Even as, by the death of thy brother, thou didst aspire...the isle of Britain, even until the present time." There is no reason to suppose that Ethelred, a child of eleven years of age, had, in any way, assented... | |
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Even as, by the death of thy brother, thou didst aspire to the kingdom, hear the decree of heaven. The sin of thy wicked mother and of her accomplices shall rest upon thy head ; and such evils shall fall upon the English as they have never yet suffered,... 
