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... reign over Wessex in 800 ; and , as already related , after vanquishing the kings of the other parts of the country , became the first king of all England in 827 . THE DANES . The Danes began to ravage England in great numbers during ...
... reign over Wessex in 800 ; and , as already related , after vanquishing the kings of the other parts of the country , became the first king of all England in 827 . THE DANES . The Danes began to ravage England in great numbers during ...
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... reign was short and unimportant . ETHELBERT ( 860-866 ) . Son of Ethelwulf . The Danes again invaded England . They committed great ravages in Kent and Sussex , and plundered Winchester . They were defeated in a great battle by ...
... reign was short and unimportant . ETHELBERT ( 860-866 ) . Son of Ethelwulf . The Danes again invaded England . They committed great ravages in Kent and Sussex , and plundered Winchester . They were defeated in a great battle by ...
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... reign was peaceful . ALFRED'S GOVERNMENT . Alfred was not only a brave and skilful warrior , but a wise ruler , and a good man . He may perhaps be considered as the best king who has ever sat on the English throne . No one ever more ...
... reign was peaceful . ALFRED'S GOVERNMENT . Alfred was not only a brave and skilful warrior , but a wise ruler , and a good man . He may perhaps be considered as the best king who has ever sat on the English throne . No one ever more ...
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... reign . EDWARD THE ELDER ( 901-925 ) . Son of Alfred . His claim to the throne was disputed by Ethelwald , son of Ethelred . A civil war ensued . Ethelwald was assisted by the Danes of Northumbria , but was at length slain in battle ...
... reign . EDWARD THE ELDER ( 901-925 ) . Son of Alfred . His claim to the throne was disputed by Ethelwald , son of Ethelred . A civil war ensued . Ethelwald was assisted by the Danes of Northumbria , but was at length slain in battle ...
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... reign , and found himself unable to cope with the Danes . Under Anlaff they revolted , and at length forced the king to restore the sovereignty of the northern part of England to them . On the death of Anlaff , however , the power of ...
... reign , and found himself unable to cope with the Danes . Under Anlaff they revolted , and at length forced the king to restore the sovereignty of the northern part of England to them . On the death of Anlaff , however , the power of ...
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Page 235 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them ; when I consider rival wits placed side by side ; or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes ; I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 235 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow : when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 235 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy, and can therefore take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Page 233 - ... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind.
Page 233 - ... buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born, and that they died.
Page 215 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 234 - The inscription is answerable to the monument; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only with the manner of his death, in which it was impossible for him to reap any honour.
Page 234 - Instead of the brave rough English admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions, under a canopy of state.
Page 234 - I observed indeed that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean.
Page 233 - I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey: where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable.