The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Том 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 стор. |
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... means of proving the original height of the wall . The most complete remnant is about eight feet high . Erdeswick , an English antiquary of the six- teenth century , found it sixteen feet high ; and his estimate is virtually confirmed ...
... means of proving the original height of the wall . The most complete remnant is about eight feet high . Erdeswick , an English antiquary of the six- teenth century , found it sixteen feet high ; and his estimate is virtually confirmed ...
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... means of judging . After the brief notice of Lollius Urbicus none of the contemporary historians say a word that can apply to doings in Scotland for forty years . In the reign of Commodus , and the year 181 , the same when Christi ...
... means of judging . After the brief notice of Lollius Urbicus none of the contemporary historians say a word that can apply to doings in Scotland for forty years . In the reign of Commodus , and the year 181 , the same when Christi ...
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... mean- ing . It is in this diluted shape that we have the part of the work most valuable in this country - Dion's Contemporary Notices of the Wars in Britain . Dion had a mind saturated with credulity and super- stition . This is at once ...
... mean- ing . It is in this diluted shape that we have the part of the work most valuable in this country - Dion's Contemporary Notices of the Wars in Britain . Dion had a mind saturated with credulity and super- stition . This is at once ...
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... mean people from the continent of Europe , belonging to those northern Teutonic races by which England and Lowland Scotland were peopled . As we shall afterwards see , they had begun that system of forcible settlement by which they ...
... mean people from the continent of Europe , belonging to those northern Teutonic races by which England and Lowland Scotland were peopled . As we shall afterwards see , they had begun that system of forcible settlement by which they ...
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... mean time , been partially heard and little heeded . The book , was still referred to as an unquestionable authority ... means of detection now . A very patriotic Scotsman might be expected to exult in seeing Richard of Cirencester swept ...
... mean time , been partially heard and little heeded . The book , was still referred to as an unquestionable authority ... means of detection now . A very patriotic Scotsman might be expected to exult in seeing Richard of Cirencester swept ...
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Сторінка 11 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.