Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: With Supplementary Extracts from the OthersJohn Earle |
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Page 306 - Beneath him, on his right, the Torridge, like a land-locked lake, sleeps broad and bright between the old park of Tapeley and the charmed rock of the Hubbastone, where, seven hundred years ago, the Norse rovers landed to lay siege to Kenwith Castle, a mile away on his left hand ; and not three fields away, are the old stones of "The Bloody Corner...
Page iv - To posterity they present merely a name Or two, as of a battlefield and a victor, but to the men of the day they suggested a thousand particulars, which they in their comrade-life were in the habit of recollecting and putting together. That which to us seems a lean and barren sentence, was to them the text for a winter evening's entertainment.
Page 364 - Sometimes it discontinued for awhile ; at other times it was but as streaks of light in the sky, but moving always with great swiftness. About one o'clock this phenomenon was so strong that the whole face of the heavens was entirely covered with it, moving as swiftly as before, but extremely low. It lasted till past four, but decreased till it was quite gone. At one the light was so great that I could, out of my window, see people walking across Lincoln's Inn Fields, though there was no moon.
Page lxxii - Philosophically considered, this ancient record is the second great phenomenon in the history of mankind. For, if we except the sacred annals of the Jews, contained in the several books of the Old Testament, there is no other work extant, ancient or modern, which exhibits at one view a regular and chronological panorama of a PEOPLE, described in rapid succession by different writers, through so many ages, in their own vernacular LANGUAGE.
Page lxi - Mr. Earle observes : . He was an amateur and an antiquarian. To him we owe the earliest mention of Stonehenge. He had a great fondness for the old Saxon Chronicles, which in his day were already something curious and out of date, although his Annals close at the same date as E. viz. 1154..
Page 11 - Creta ludeis in specie Moysi apparens, ad terram repromissionis per mare pede sicco perducere promittit; sicque plurimis necatis, reliqui ad Christi gratiam conuertuntur.
Page 322 - Gallise solo tenus vastaverunt nee mingentes ad parietem vivere reliquerunt : acceptisque eorum uxoribus et filiabus in conjugium, omnes earum linguas amputaverunt, ne eorum successio maternam linguam disceret ; unde et nos illos vocamus in nostra lingua Letewicion, id est semitacentes, quoniam confuse loquuntur.
Page 364 - First appeared a black cloud, from whence smoke and light issued forth at once on every side, and then the cloud opened, and there was a great body of pale fire, that rolled up and down, and...
Page 364 - Tories said that it came far the Whigs taking off the two lords that were executed. I could hardly make my chairmen come home with me, they were so frightened, and I was forced to let my glass down, and preach to them as I went along, to comfort them.