Author: James Augustus St. John Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781334059858 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 484
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Excerpt from History of the Four Conquests of England, Vol. 1 of 2 Though the British people may not, perhaps, be ad mitted by its neighbours to be the greatest of modern nations, it will certainly be allowed to be among the greatest, and the height of power and civilisation to which it has attained must be traced to the circumstances by which its youth was surrounded and disciplined. It is the story of this youth that I have endeavoured to tell in these volumes - to show under what in uences it arose and waxed in strength - with what storms of ad versity it had to contend - how with the patience of greatness it braved them all - and how, though beaten down and bent, it was never broken, but rising again gradually, recovered its erect attitude, towering higher and higher after every fall, until, at length, it came to constitute the acme of political communities, the model and exemplar after which other free states have been proud to fashion themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Emma Mason Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9781852853891 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 316
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Harold Godwineson was king of England from January 1066 until his death at Hastings in October of that year. For much of the reign of Edward the Confessor, who was married to Harold’s sister Eadgyth, the Godwine family, led by Earl Godwine, had dominated English politics. In The Rise and Fall of the House of Godwine, Emma Mason tells the turbulent story of a remarkable family which, until Harold’s unexpected defeat, looked far more likely than the dukes of Normandy to provide the long-term rulers of England. But for the Norman Conquest, an Anglo-Saxon England ruled by the Godwine dynasty would have developed very differently from that dominated by the Normans.
Author: Justin Mccarthy Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780656104796 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 612
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Excerpt from A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Vol. 1 of 2 Palatine Of the Rhine, and her life was crossed and thwarted by the Opening Of the Thirty Years' War, and then 'by the misfortunes Of her brother Charles and his dynasty. Elizabeth survived the English troubles and'saw the Restoration, and came to live in England, and to see her nephew, Charles the Second, reign as king. She barely saw this. Two years after the Restoration she died in London. Sophia was her twelfth_child she had thirteen in all. One Of Sophia's elder brothers was Prince Rupert, that Rupert Of the Rhine, Of whom Macaulay's ballad says that, Rupert never comes but to conquer or to die, the Rupert whose daring and irresistible charges generally won his half Of the battle only that the other half might be lost, and that his success might be swallowed up in the ruin Of his companions. His headlong bravery was a misfortune rather than an advantage to his cause, and there seems to have been one instance, that Of the sur render of'bt'istol, in which that bravery deserted him for the moment. We see him afterwards, in the pages Of Pepys, an uninteresting, prosaic, pedantic figure, usefully employed in scientific experiments, and with all the gilt' washed Off him by time and years and the commonplace wear and tear of routine life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Bibliography Languages : en Pages : 1760
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Bibliography Languages : en Pages : 1288
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Author: Sharon Turner Publisher: ISBN: 9781588400987 Category : Languages : en Pages : 1178
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facsimilie reprint, 1841, computer scanned and enhanced, quality good to very good (the footnotes are in smaller print and harder to read); Very rare book. 2-vol set, not available individually. Mr Turner was a London attorney who set out to answer the questions: "Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Where did the come from?" --and established himself as the foremost authority on the topic. His work went through many different editions (sometimes printed in 2,3 or 4 volumes; this printing is from a 2-volume edition and is complete). His work is a classic, unequaled, and a very rare book. Vol. 1 is 560pp., Vol. 2 is 618pp. Attractive color cover with 10mm. clear plastic cover sheet, plastic comb bound.
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