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... King's Mediation - The Murder of Becket - Consequences of Becket's Murder CHAPTER XIII . ( A.D. 1175-1228 ) . THE GREAT CHARTER . .. 189 ... The Election of Bishops - Hugh of Lincoln - Pope Innocent III.— The Humiliation of King John ...
... King's Mediation - The Murder of Becket - Consequences of Becket's Murder CHAPTER XIII . ( A.D. 1175-1228 ) . THE GREAT CHARTER . .. 189 ... The Election of Bishops - Hugh of Lincoln - Pope Innocent III.— The Humiliation of King John ...
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... king ere Arthur came Ruled in this isle , and ever waging war Each upon other , wasted all the land ; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd over seas1 , and harried what was left . " " And King Leodogran Groan'd for ...
... king ere Arthur came Ruled in this isle , and ever waging war Each upon other , wasted all the land ; And still from time to time the heathen host Swarm'd over seas1 , and harried what was left . " " And King Leodogran Groan'd for ...
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... King will follow Christ , and we the King . " Tennyson . Thus from the 2nd to the middle of the 5th century Christianity was the religion of all the land of Britain which the Romans had subdued . What we now call Ireland and Scotland ...
... King will follow Christ , and we the King . " Tennyson . Thus from the 2nd to the middle of the 5th century Christianity was the religion of all the land of Britain which the Romans had subdued . What we now call Ireland and Scotland ...
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... King Arthur , of whom we have already heard , and that he , at the battle of Mount Badon , A.D. 520 , so stubbornly resisted the Saxon advance , that the territory now known as Cornwall , Devon , and Somerset , then called by the Saxons ...
... King Arthur , of whom we have already heard , and that he , at the battle of Mount Badon , A.D. 520 , so stubbornly resisted the Saxon advance , that the territory now known as Cornwall , Devon , and Somerset , then called by the Saxons ...
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... king's son or brother might share in the government , and succeed to full power should the king fall in battle . On the death of either , such divisions would be reunited . The Anglian tribes inhabited a far larger portion of British ...
... king's son or brother might share in the government , and succeed to full power should the king fall in battle . On the death of either , such divisions would be reunited . The Anglian tribes inhabited a far larger portion of British ...
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Page 119 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 273 - THE HOUSE OF GOD THE HOME OF MAN. By the Rev. Canon JELF. THE INNER LIFE, as Revealed in the Correspondence of Celebrated Christians. Edited by the late Rev. T. ERSKINE. THE LIFE OF THE SOUL IN THE WORLD ; its Nature, Needs, Dangers, Sorrows, Aids, and Joys.
Page 55 - Augustine, is said, in a threatening manner, to have foretold, that in case they would not join in unity with their brethren, they should be warred upon by their enemies ; and, if they would not preach the way of life to the English nation, they should at their hands undergo the vengeance of death.
Page 46 - Then repairing to the bishop of the Roman apostolical see, (for he was not himself then made pope,) he entreated him to send some ministers of the word into Britain to the nation of the English, by whom it might be converted to Christ...