An abridgment of The history of England, to the death of George ii1777 |
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... finding the country fertile , and commodiously fituated for trade , they fettled upon the fea - fide , and introduced the practice of agricul- ture . But it was very different with the inland inha- bitants of the country , who ...
... finding the country fertile , and commodiously fituated for trade , they fettled upon the fea - fide , and introduced the practice of agricul- ture . But it was very different with the inland inha- bitants of the country , who ...
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... finding it impoffible to ftand their ground in Britain , in the reign of the em- peror Valentinian took their last leave of the island , after being mafters of it for near four hundred years , and now left the natives to the choice of ...
... finding it impoffible to ftand their ground in Britain , in the reign of the em- peror Valentinian took their last leave of the island , after being mafters of it for near four hundred years , and now left the natives to the choice of ...
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... finding they were English pages , he is faid to have cried out , in the Latin language , Non Angli , fed Angeli forent , fi effent Chriftiani ; They would not be English , but Angels , had they been Chriftians . From that time he was ...
... finding they were English pages , he is faid to have cried out , in the Latin language , Non Angli , fed Angeli forent , fi effent Chriftiani ; They would not be English , but Angels , had they been Chriftians . From that time he was ...
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... finding his remonftrances ineffectual , he was obliged to give way to the wretched neceffity of the times . Accord- ingly , relinq ifhing th enfigns of his dignity , and difmiffing his fervants , he dreffed himself in the ha-- bit of a ...
... finding his remonftrances ineffectual , he was obliged to give way to the wretched neceffity of the times . Accord- ingly , relinq ifhing th enfigns of his dignity , and difmiffing his fervants , he dreffed himself in the ha-- bit of a ...
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... finding himself unable to fuftain a fiege , and knowing the danger of furrendering to a perfidious enemy , was refolved , by one defperate effort , to fally out and force his way through the be- fiegers , fword in hand . The propofal ...
... finding himself unable to fuftain a fiege , and knowing the danger of furrendering to a perfidious enemy , was refolved , by one defperate effort , to fally out and force his way through the be- fiegers , fword in hand . The propofal ...
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