The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688, Količina 1W. Blackwood, 1867 - 650 strani |
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Stran vii
... LITERATURE - BRITONS OF STRATHCLYDE THE PICTS -THE GREAT PICTISH QUESTION — ETYMOLOGICAL WAR - SPECI- MENS OF THE VICTORIES ON EITHER SIDE - WHAT THEY HAVE GAINED WHAT IS TAUGHT BY ANCIENT REMAINS WHAT WE GATHER FROM CLASSIC AUTHORS ...
... LITERATURE - BRITONS OF STRATHCLYDE THE PICTS -THE GREAT PICTISH QUESTION — ETYMOLOGICAL WAR - SPECI- MENS OF THE VICTORIES ON EITHER SIDE - WHAT THEY HAVE GAINED WHAT IS TAUGHT BY ANCIENT REMAINS WHAT WE GATHER FROM CLASSIC AUTHORS ...
Stran viii
... LITERATURE TO SUPPRESS THESE SPECIALTIES - IM- PORTANCE OF THE EARLIER SOURCES - PERSONAL HISTORY OF ST COLUMBA - HIS ROYAL RANK - DISTRIBUTION OF POLITICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL POWER AMONG RULING DYNASTIES - HIS POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES ...
... LITERATURE TO SUPPRESS THESE SPECIALTIES - IM- PORTANCE OF THE EARLIER SOURCES - PERSONAL HISTORY OF ST COLUMBA - HIS ROYAL RANK - DISTRIBUTION OF POLITICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL POWER AMONG RULING DYNASTIES - HIS POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES ...
Stran 2
... literature . These are feeble and frag- mentary . By scrupulously collecting them , however , adjusting them to each other , and interpreting them through such other aids to history as may be found , it is possible to see in some ...
... literature . These are feeble and frag- mentary . By scrupulously collecting them , however , adjusting them to each other , and interpreting them through such other aids to history as may be found , it is possible to see in some ...
Stran 3
... literature , and stimulated them to build temples and improved dwellings - and all within two years , a rather brief period for so great an achievement . The assimilation laid still stronger bonds on the natives by infecting them with ...
... literature , and stimulated them to build temples and improved dwellings - and all within two years , a rather brief period for so great an achievement . The assimilation laid still stronger bonds on the natives by infecting them with ...
Stran 9
... literature : all Livy's generals made speeches ; and the leader of the barbarians must give his contribution as well as the cultivated Roman . How much more valuable would it have been to us had Tacitus deigned to tell us something ...
... literature : all Livy's generals made speeches ; and the leader of the barbarians must give his contribution as well as the cultivated Roman . How much more valuable would it have been to us had Tacitus deigned to tell us something ...
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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.