A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom: The Polity of the English-speaking Race. Outlined in Its Inception, Development, Diffusion and Present ConditionC. Scribner's sons, 1890 - 420 páginas |
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... marked feudalism in which the mass of men were serfs . Still more sweepingly , Mr. H. C. Coote , in his " Romans of Britain , " will have it that the Anglo- Saxons transmitted to us not only no freedom , but nothing else . They were ...
... marked feudalism in which the mass of men were serfs . Still more sweepingly , Mr. H. C. Coote , in his " Romans of Britain , " will have it that the Anglo- Saxons transmitted to us not only no freedom , but nothing else . They were ...
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... marked differences may be Comparison noted . The power of the people , indeed , Anglo - Saxon is no greater than in the Slavonic mir , or village ; than in the communities of the early Greeks , as described by Homer ; than in the vil ...
... marked differences may be Comparison noted . The power of the people , indeed , Anglo - Saxon is no greater than in the Slavonic mir , or village ; than in the communities of the early Greeks , as described by Homer ; than in the vil ...
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... marked enough , the points of resemblance will be found at the same time numerous and striking . A nation of sixty millions is vastly different from a tribe of a few thou- sands ; the elaborate civilization of the nineteenth century is ...
... marked enough , the points of resemblance will be found at the same time numerous and striking . A nation of sixty millions is vastly different from a tribe of a few thou- sands ; the elaborate civilization of the nineteenth century is ...
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... marked with a coat of arms of three lions , and on the prow a brazen child holding an arrow and a bow bent to shoot . The chronicler , William of Malmesbury , says the sails of the vessel were crimson . These were kept turned to the ...
... marked with a coat of arms of three lions , and on the prow a brazen child holding an arrow and a bow bent to shoot . The chronicler , William of Malmesbury , says the sails of the vessel were crimson . These were kept turned to the ...
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... marked it as Elizabethan , and the church itself was partly at least , from the Wars of the Roses . But at the end of the street rose a structure so massive and venerable that it subordi- nated to itself the whole of the little vil ...
... marked it as Elizabethan , and the church itself was partly at least , from the Wars of the Roses . But at the end of the street rose a structure so massive and venerable that it subordi- nated to itself the whole of the little vil ...
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