The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Količina 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 strani |
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Stran 8
... complete victory ; and its historian in the usual manner describes the field covered with blood and broken armour- with the dead and the dying . There was a great slaughter in the retreat . Ten thousand is the number of slain set down ...
... complete victory ; and its historian in the usual manner describes the field covered with blood and broken armour- with the dead and the dying . There was a great slaughter in the retreat . Ten thousand is the number of slain set down ...
Stran 20
... complete , must have been by far the most conspicuous . Where the nature of the ground permitted , the succession of the works taken in a section , as architects term it - the profile , in the language of the military engineer - was ...
... complete , must have been by far the most conspicuous . Where the nature of the ground permitted , the succession of the works taken in a section , as architects term it - the profile , in the language of the military engineer - was ...
Stran 22
... complete remnant is about eight feet high . Erdeswick , an English antiquary of the six- teenth century , found it sixteen feet high ; and his estimate is virtually confirmed by Camden , who visited the wall in the last year of the same ...
... complete remnant is about eight feet high . Erdeswick , an English antiquary of the six- teenth century , found it sixteen feet high ; and his estimate is virtually confirmed by Camden , who visited the wall in the last year of the same ...
Stran 25
... hated patchwork and makeshifts , and rather than take advantage of any imperfect work to complete that on hand , would reject it , and do the new work from the beginning . Hence , that in one THE GREAT WALL , A.D. 120-220 . 25.
... hated patchwork and makeshifts , and rather than take advantage of any imperfect work to complete that on hand , would reject it , and do the new work from the beginning . Hence , that in one THE GREAT WALL , A.D. 120-220 . 25.
Stran 58
... complete this list of significant trifles , it has to be recorded that a few brooches , rings , and other per- sonal ornaments have been brought to light , which at once prove their origin , even though of the common metals , by the ...
... complete this list of significant trifles , it has to be recorded that a few brooches , rings , and other per- sonal ornaments have been brought to light , which at once prove their origin , even though of the common metals , by the ...
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Stran 11 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.