The History of Normandy and of England: General relations of mediaeval Europe. The Carlovingian empire. The Danish expeditions in the Gauls. The establishment of Rollo. 1878

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Macmillan and Company, 1878
 

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الصفحة 716 - Pro Deo amur et pro Christian poblo et nostro commun « salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir « me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo et in...
الصفحة 701 - They were thus completely estranged from their Norwegian brethren, who would willingly have rescued England from their grasp; yet the...
الصفحة 419 - ... by the usual symbol of war, two crossed swords, the localities where battles were fought by or against the pirates ; where they were defeated or triumphant, or where they pillaged, burned, destroyed ; and the valleys and banks of the Elbe, Rhine, and Moselle, Scheldt, Meuse, Somme, and Seine, Loire, Garonne, and Adour, the inland Allier, and all the coasts and coastlands between estuary and estuary, and the countries between the river-streams, will appear bristling as with chevaux-de-frise.
الصفحة 716 - Karlo, et in aiudha et in cadhuna cosa, si cum om per dreit son fradra salvar dift, in o quid il mi altresi fazet, et ab Ludher nul plaid nunquam prindrai, qui meon vol cist meon fradre Karle in damno sit.
الصفحة 25 - We each see the landscape through our own stripe of the rainbow. A favourite hero by long-established prescription, few historical characters have been more disguised by fond adornment than Charlemagne. Each generation or school, has endeavoured to exhibit him as a normal model of excellence.
الصفحة 414 - O tu qui servas armis ista moenia, Noli dormire, moneo, sed vigila. Dum Hector vigil extitit in Troia, Non earn cepit fraudulenta Graecia.
الصفحة 593 - Eng. to till,} lying in the bailiwick of Norden and Bertum, are held by a very extraordinary tenure — we speak in the present tense, for the customs of the Theel-land were subsisting in the year 1805 ; and we do not suppose that they have since become obsolete. The agrarian law, elsewhere a phantom, either lovely or terrific according to the imagination of the spectator, is here fully realized. The land is considered as being divided into portions, or Theels, each containing a stated...
الصفحة 526 - Had she not thus fascinated Duke Robert the Liberal of Normandy, Harold would not have fallen at Hastings, no Anglo-Norman dynasty could have arisen, no British empire.
الصفحة 282 - The City of Revolutions begins her real history by the first French Revolution.
الصفحة xxxviii - convinced by a tolerably large experience, that " most readers find it almost impossible to impress " on their memories a mere abridgment of history : "the number of names and events crowded into " a small space is overwhelming to them, and " the absence of details in the narrative makes it " impossible to communicate to it much of interest.

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