The Childhood of the English Nation; Or, The Beginnings of English HistoryG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877 - 247 páginas |
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... things , in entering into the thought and feeling of past ages . To enable a modern reader of no great cultivation to do this , it seemed to me that some book was wanted which should be more diffuse in explanation than historians in ...
... things , in entering into the thought and feeling of past ages . To enable a modern reader of no great cultivation to do this , it seemed to me that some book was wanted which should be more diffuse in explanation than historians in ...
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... things . All I hope to do is to prepare my readers for books in which the secret of history is more fully unfolded . Of these works I have availed myself freely in the following pages ; and as it was undesirable in so small a book to ...
... things . All I hope to do is to prepare my readers for books in which the secret of history is more fully unfolded . Of these works I have availed myself freely in the following pages ; and as it was undesirable in so small a book to ...
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... things in medieval history which most require explanation , and from that time forward he can advance without further commentary ; if he has understood what went before , he will understand what comes after , and is developed out of it ...
... things in medieval history which most require explanation , and from that time forward he can advance without further commentary ; if he has understood what went before , he will understand what comes after , and is developed out of it ...
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... things . There are of course many stages both of barbarism and of civilisation , and we do not always use either word in its rigid sense . And what do we mean by organisation ? This word comes from a Greek one signifying an instrument ...
... things . There are of course many stages both of barbarism and of civilisation , and we do not always use either word in its rigid sense . And what do we mean by organisation ? This word comes from a Greek one signifying an instrument ...
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... thing that we know about Britain , before the period of darkness begins ( when the Roman armies left the island in 407 ) , is that the Saxons were constantly harrying the coasts . At first they probably came only as pirates . Absolute ...
... thing that we know about Britain , before the period of darkness begins ( when the Roman armies left the island in 407 ) , is that the Saxons were constantly harrying the coasts . At first they probably came only as pirates . Absolute ...
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