History of the English People, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1900 |
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... lord . He was the " weaponed man " who alone bore spear and sword , and who alone preserved that right of self - redress or private war which in such a state of society formed the main check upon lawless outrage . The English Conquest ...
... lord . He was the " weaponed man " who alone bore spear and sword , and who alone preserved that right of self - redress or private war which in such a state of society formed the main check upon lawless outrage . The English Conquest ...
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... lord and land . He had neither part nor lot in the common land of the village . The ground which he tilled he held of some free man of the tribe to whom he paid rent in labour or in kind . And this man was his lord . Whatever rights the ...
... lord and land . He had neither part nor lot in the common land of the village . The ground which he tilled he held of some free man of the tribe to whom he paid rent in labour or in kind . And this man was his lord . Whatever rights the ...
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... lord claimed the damages ; if guilty of wrong - doing , " his skin paid for him " under his master's lash . If he fled he might be chased like a strayed beast , and when caught he might be flogged to death . If the wrong - doer were a ...
... lord claimed the damages ; if guilty of wrong - doing , " his skin paid for him " under his master's lash . If he fled he might be chased like a strayed beast , and when caught he might be flogged to death . If the wrong - doer were a ...
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... lord ! " But the sadness with which these Englishmen fronted the mysteries of life and death had nothing in it of the unmanly despair which bids men eat and drink for to - morrow they die . Death leaves man man and master of his fate ...
... lord ! " But the sadness with which these Englishmen fronted the mysteries of life and death had nothing in it of the unmanly despair which bids men eat and drink for to - morrow they die . Death leaves man man and master of his fate ...
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... lord . But Rome was gone . The mosaics , the coins which we dig up in our fields are no relics of our English fathers , but of a world which our fathers ' sword swept utterly away . Its law , its literature , its manners , its faith ...
... lord . But Rome was gone . The mosaics , the coins which we dig up in our fields are no relics of our English fathers , but of a world which our fathers ' sword swept utterly away . Its law , its literature , its manners , its faith ...
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Página 247 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water; furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Página 375 - A third account by Knyghton, a canon of Leicester, will be found in the collection of Twysden. At the end of this century and the beginning of the next the annals that had been carried on in the Abbey of St. Albans were thrown together by Walsingham in the " Historia Anglicana "which bears his name, a compilation whose history is given in the prefaces to the "Chronica Monasterii S.
Página 212 - ... tradition of Teutonic liberty. The rights of self-government, of free speech in free meeting, of equal justice by one's equals, were brought safely across the ages of tyranny by the burghers and shopkeepers of the towns. In the quiet, quaintly-named streets, in town-mead and market-place, in the lord's mill beside the stream, in the bell that swung out its summons to the crowded borough-mote, in merchant-gild and church-gild and...
Página 567 - Duke himself, he was forced to move at last by efforts to indict him as a traitor in Ireland itself. Crossing at Michaelmas to Wales in spite of the efforts to arrest him, he gathered four thousand men on his estates and marched upon London. No serious effort was made to prevent his approach to the King; and Henry found himself helpless to resist his demand of a Parliament and of the admission of new councillors to the royal council-board. Parliament met in November, and a bitter strife between York...
Página 244 - But in itself the Charter was no novelty, nor did it claim to establish any new constitutional principles. The Charter of Henry the First formed the basis of the whole, and the additions to it are for the most part formal recognitions of the judicial and administrative changes introduced by Henry the Second. But the vague expressions of the older charters were now exchanged for precise and elaborate provisions.
Página 49 - ... the Lake of Constance. For a time it seemed as if the course of the world's history was to be changed, as if the older Celtic race that Roman and German had swept before them had turned to the moral conquest of their conquerors, as if Celtic and not Latin Christianity was to mould the destinies of the churches of the West.
Página 55 - Lindisfarne, or of the new religious houses whose foundation followed that of Lindisfarne, looked for their ecclesiastical tradition, not to Rome but to Ireland ; and quoted for their guidance the instructions, not of Gregory, but of Columba. Whatever claims of supremacy over the whole English Church might be pressed by the See of Canterbury, the real metropolitan of the Church as it existed in the North of England was the Abbot of lona.
Página 75 - But he was no mere saint. He felt none of that scorn of the world about him which drove the nobler souls of his day to monastery or hermitage. Vexed as he was by sickness and constant pain, his temper took no touch of asceticism. His rare geniality, a peculiar elasticity and mobility of nature, gave color and charm to his life. A sunny frankness and openness of spirit breathes in the pleasant chat of his books, and what he was in his books he showed himself in his daily converse.
Página 264 - Notwithstanding, certain it is that if those schoolmen to their great thirst of truth and unwearied travail of wit had joined variety and universality of reading and contemplation, they had proved excellent lights, to the great advancement of all learning and knowledge...
Página 285 - The eye of the trained hawk, the glance of the threemewed falcon was not brighter than hers. Her bosom was more snowy than the breast of the white swan, her cheek was redder than the reddest roses.