The Geography of British History: A Geographical Description of the British Islands at Successive Periods from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: with a Sketch of the Commencement of Colonisation on the Part of the English NationLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863 - 720 Seiten |
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Seite 171 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Seite 216 - THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY IN NEW ENGLAND.
Seite 138 - Ramilies with patriotic regret and shame. The Conqueror and his descendants to the fourth generation were not Englishmen: most of them were born in France : they spent the greater part of their lives in France : their ordinary speech was French : almost every high office in their gift was filled by a Frenchman : every acquisition which they made on the Continent estranged them more and more from the population of our island.
Seite 135 - All this was to be triply estimated : first, as the estate was held in the time of the Confessor ; then, as it was bestowed by King William ; and thirdly, as its value stood at the formation of the Survey. The jurors were moreover to state whether any advance could be made in the value.
Seite 211 - WHAT chiefly renders the reign of James memorable, is the commencement of the English colonies in America ; colonies established on the noblest footing that has been known in any age or nation.
Seite 198 - There be many smiths in the town, that use to make knives and all manner of cutting tools, and many lorimers that make bitts, and a great many nailors, so that a great part of the town is maintained by smiths, who have their iron and sea-coal out of Staffordshire.
Seite 230 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Seite 258 - Hill," its back to Harborough, with the wide table of upland now named Broad Moor between them, where indeed the main brunt of the action still clearly enough shows itself to have been. There are hollow spots, of a rank vegetation, scattered over that Broad Moor, which are understood to have once been burial mounds, some of which, one to my knowledge, have been, with more or less of sacrilege, verified as such.
Seite 227 - The Governor and Company of the Merchants of London trading into the East Indies...
Seite 221 - Spanish vessels on a tour of exploration, landed and took possession of the island in the name of the King of Spain.