The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 6Conner & Cooke, 1833 - English literature |
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... land , and enclosed within their own mountains . But they were very much displeased with this , and assembled themselves in great numbers , and climbed over the wall in spite of all that the Romans could do to oppose them . A man of the ...
... land , and enclosed within their own mountains . But they were very much displeased with this , and assembled themselves in great numbers , and climbed over the wall in spite of all that the Romans could do to oppose them . A man of the ...
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... land to themselves , and to make the Britons their slaves and servants . The Britons were very unwilling to have their country taken from them by the people they had called in to help them , and so strove to oppose them ; but the Saxons ...
... land to themselves , and to make the Britons their slaves and servants . The Britons were very unwilling to have their country taken from them by the people they had called in to help them , and so strove to oppose them ; but the Saxons ...
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... land , to his dukes , earls , and noblemen , and each of them possessed nearly as much power , within his own district , as the king did in the rest of his domin- ions . But then the vassal , whether duke , earl , or lord , or ...
... land , to his dukes , earls , and noblemen , and each of them possessed nearly as much power , within his own district , as the king did in the rest of his domin- ions . But then the vassal , whether duke , earl , or lord , or ...
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... land produced a great effect upon their neighbours . thousand chosen men for accomplishing his bold In the first place , a very great number of the Saxons enterprise . Harold , who had succeeded Edward the who fled from the cruelty of ...
... land produced a great effect upon their neighbours . thousand chosen men for accomplishing his bold In the first place , a very great number of the Saxons enterprise . Harold , who had succeeded Edward the who fled from the cruelty of ...
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... land , and acknowledging that he was his liege vassal of the persons claiming the throne of Scotland was and subject . to be preferred to the others . The people of Scotland are said to have sent ambassadors to Edward , to re- quest his ...
... land , and acknowledging that he was his liege vassal of the persons claiming the throne of Scotland was and subject . to be preferred to the others . The people of Scotland are said to have sent ambassadors to Edward , to re- quest his ...
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