Old English Chronicles: Including Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius; Together with the Spurious Chronicle of Richard of CirencesterJohn Allen Giles G. Bell, 1908 - 512 pages |
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Page ix
... endeavoured to prove Geoffrey of Monmouth to be a more faithful historian than he is generally considered to be . His words are as follow : " I am not unsensible that I expose myself to the censures of some persons , by publishing this ...
... endeavoured to prove Geoffrey of Monmouth to be a more faithful historian than he is generally considered to be . His words are as follow : " I am not unsensible that I expose myself to the censures of some persons , by publishing this ...
Page 82
... endeavoured to fulfil . But , that he might , with his usual caution , avoid that which scripture warns us against : " If you offer aright , but do not divide aright , you sin , " he considered how he might divide aright that which he ...
... endeavoured to fulfil . But , that he might , with his usual caution , avoid that which scripture warns us against : " If you offer aright , but do not divide aright , you sin , " he considered how he might divide aright that which he ...
Page 94
... endeavoured that night to re - assemble his broken forces , and the next morning went with a body of his people which he had got together , to besiege the town , into which he supposed Brutus had put himself with Antigonus and the rest ...
... endeavoured that night to re - assemble his broken forces , and the next morning went with a body of his people which he had got together , to besiege the town , into which he supposed Brutus had put himself with Antigonus and the rest ...
Page 100
... endeavoured to assuage her grief by kind words and embraces intermixed with kisses , and ceased not from these blandishments till she grew weary of crying and fell asleep . During these and other accidents , the winds continued fair for ...
... endeavoured to assuage her grief by kind words and embraces intermixed with kisses , and ceased not from these blandishments till she grew weary of crying and fell asleep . During these and other accidents , the winds continued fair for ...
Page 124
... endeavouring to revenge himself on his brother . CHAP . III . - Belinus in a battle routs Brennius , who thereupon flees to Gaul . A FEW days after appeared Brennius , with his fleet again got together , and arrived in Albania ; and ...
... endeavouring to revenge himself on his brother . CHAP . III . - Belinus in a battle routs Brennius , who thereupon flees to Gaul . A FEW days after appeared Brennius , with his fleet again got together , and arrived in Albania ; and ...
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