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... tion between the two races was gradually obliterated . Mercia and East Anglia also no . longer existed as Saxon kingdoms , so that Alfred , with his men of Wessex , had to sustain almost the whole brunt of the contest with the Danes ...
... tion between the two races was gradually obliterated . Mercia and East Anglia also no . longer existed as Saxon kingdoms , so that Alfred , with his men of Wessex , had to sustain almost the whole brunt of the contest with the Danes ...
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... tion of his brother Tostig to the earldom of Northumber- land , vacant by the death of his rival Siward , and by a successful campaign against the Welsh , whom he reduced to submission . The conquered mountaineers agreed to pay tribute ...
... tion of his brother Tostig to the earldom of Northumber- land , vacant by the death of his rival Siward , and by a successful campaign against the Welsh , whom he reduced to submission . The conquered mountaineers agreed to pay tribute ...
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... tion , have all been the work of their hands . We must not , however , infer that the Celts are a permanently in- ferior race . It has already been said , in the last chapter , that there was a time when the Celts of Ireland had more ...
... tion , have all been the work of their hands . We must not , however , infer that the Celts are a permanently in- ferior race . It has already been said , in the last chapter , that there was a time when the Celts of Ireland had more ...
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... tion made a vast wilderness there , which continues to this day . " Language can but faintly describe the horrors of this " dismal slaughter , " as a contemporary calls it , who adds that more than 100,000 victims perished . Famine and ...
... tion made a vast wilderness there , which continues to this day . " Language can but faintly describe the horrors of this " dismal slaughter , " as a contemporary calls it , who adds that more than 100,000 victims perished . Famine and ...
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... tion from the oath he had taken , and also the excommuni- cation of all those who remained under arms for the purpose of enforcing its observance . But no bishop in England could be found to promulgate the sentence , and John thereupon ...
... tion from the oath he had taken , and also the excommuni- cation of all those who remained under arms for the purpose of enforcing its observance . But no bishop in England could be found to promulgate the sentence , and John thereupon ...
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