Hughes's historical readers. Standard iii(-vi). |
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Æthelbert Alfred archbishop army asked Athelney Augustine battle bishop Boadicea body British Britons brother called camp Canterbury chief chosen king Christian church Cnut coast Coifi conquered conquest counsel Count of Ponthieu crown Danes Danish king death defeated Dunstan Edgar Edward the Confessor Edwy Egbert enemies England English king Ethelred faith FIGHT AT SENLAC fight at Stamford fought gave Godwin Gregory Gyrth Hardrada Harold Hardrada Hastings heathen Hengist Hereward hermit holy Housecarls island Julius Cæsar King Harold king of Kent king of Wessex land language learnt LESSON lived lord married monastery monks night Norman Duke William Normandy northern earls Northmen Northumbrian Norwegian oath Paulinus pledge plunder Pope prayers prince promise ravaging rebellion refuge relics resistance Roman Rome Saxon scarcely ships slain slave-market soldiers solemn Stamford Bridge story things thought told Tostig truth tumult vengeance victory Vortigern Waltham William the Conqueror wished Witan words
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Strana 21 - ... to preach. It is reported that, as they drew near to the city, after their manner, with the holy cross, and the image of our sovereign Lord and King, Jesus Christ, they, in concert...
Strana 11 - Other Romans shall arise Heedless of a soldier's name; Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, Harmony the path to fame.
Strana 142 - ... he died. When the body was carried to Caen for burial in the abbey of St. Stephen, which William himself had reared, a knight stepped forward and claimed as his own the ground in which the grave had been dug. It had been taken, he said, by William from his father. " In the name of God," he cried, " I forbid that the body of the robber be covered with my mould, or that he be buried within the bounds of my inheritance.
Strana 19 - De ira, snatched from the wrath of God, and called to the mercy of Christ.
Strana 107 - will I burn an English village or an English house; never will I harm the lands or the goods of any Englishman. How can I do hurt to the folk who are put under me to govern ? How can I plunder and harass those whom I would fain see thrive under my rule?
Strana 49 - His noble nature implanted in him from his cradle a love of wisdom above all things ; but, with shame be it spoken, by the unworthy neglect of his parents and nurses, he remained illiterate even till he was twelve years old or more...
Strana 122 - BY his victory at Hastings, or, as we should rather say, Senlac, William had left the English people without a king. There still remained the young Prince Edgar, of whom we should be apt to speak as the rightful heir by line of descent. But we cannot say that our modern notions of succession were even known to our forefathers in those days.
Strana 114 - THE last preparations were now made on either side. The Norman duke called for his coat of mail. As he put it on, the forepart was by some mischance turned hindmost. The sign seemed not less discouraging than his stumble on the beach when he landed from the Mora ; but with the same readiness which he then showed, he now declared the omen to be a good one.
Strana 119 - Harold in the eye, piercing his brain. His axe fell from his hand, and. in a few minutes the undaunted English king lay dead. Norman knights thronged around him, and Norman gentlemen were not ashamed to hack and hew his body by way of taking vengeance for what they called his perjury. The death of the king was...
Strana 118 - English who were opposed to them to come down from the vantage-ground in chase of the fugitives ; and he was aware that, unless he could effect an entrance within the English stockade, there was no hope of success for the Normans. He therefore gave orders to some of his troops to feign a flight, and to others, that while these should draw the English...