A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 - Great Britain |
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... executed this office in person , In concluding peace , as in declaring war , they were obliged to pay regard to the advice and inclinations of their nobles , and , above all , of the Druids , who , in those days of ignorance being the ...
... executed this office in person , In concluding peace , as in declaring war , they were obliged to pay regard to the advice and inclinations of their nobles , and , above all , of the Druids , who , in those days of ignorance being the ...
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... execute their sentence , but inflicted themselves , with their own hands , stripes , and even death , on those whom they had condemned . The Druids alone were also in possession of teaching the principles and performing the offices of ...
... execute their sentence , but inflicted themselves , with their own hands , stripes , and even death , on those whom they had condemned . The Druids alone were also in possession of teaching the principles and performing the offices of ...
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... amount of the tribute are men- tioned by Cĉsar , who seems to have been much less actuated in those stipulations by his expectations that they would be executed than by his own honour 14 [ Period 1 . ROMAN INVASION .
... amount of the tribute are men- tioned by Cĉsar , who seems to have been much less actuated in those stipulations by his expectations that they would be executed than by his own honour 14 [ Period 1 . ROMAN INVASION .
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... executed than by his own honour and that of the Roman name ; and being convinced that no conquests in Britain could compensate the expense , the difficulty and danger attending them , he left it with a resolution never to return . The ...
... executed than by his own honour and that of the Roman name ; and being convinced that no conquests in Britain could compensate the expense , the difficulty and danger attending them , he left it with a resolution never to return . The ...
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... execution , was the fruit of his repentance . Towards the end of his reign the progressive effeminacy of the Romans induced the sol- diers to lay aside the defensive armour which they had invariably worn from the first foundation of the ...
... execution , was the fruit of his repentance . Towards the end of his reign the progressive effeminacy of the Romans induced the sol- diers to lay aside the defensive armour which they had invariably worn from the first foundation of the ...
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