Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page xviii
... better basis for Christian relation- ships than violence and anarchy . * Among the many technical and scientific discoveries of our age , greater even than those of material power for it may help to save us from the latter's ...
... better basis for Christian relation- ships than violence and anarchy . * Among the many technical and scientific discoveries of our age , greater even than those of material power for it may help to save us from the latter's ...
Page 89
... better way - and this may have appealed even more strongly to Henry - of keeping the peace . The same procedure was extended to actions to determine legal ownership . By a process called the grand assize a freeholder whose title was ...
... better way - and this may have appealed even more strongly to Henry - of keeping the peace . The same procedure was extended to actions to determine legal ownership . By a process called the grand assize a freeholder whose title was ...
Page 290
... better in 1370 than in 1369 . The English could not contend indefinitely against a nation several times their size . Though they still did not realise it , the door of opportunity , once wide open , was now bolted against them . They ...
... better in 1370 than in 1369 . The English could not contend indefinitely against a nation several times their size . Though they still did not realise it , the door of opportunity , once wide open , was now bolted against them . They ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
Copyright | |
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