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briefs (8)in #ethelred • 2 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Child's History of England #8/210
In the four following short reigns, of Ethelwulf, and his sons, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, and Ethelred, they came back, over and over again, burning and plundering, and laying…
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briefs (8)in #wessex • 3 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Child's History of England #7/210
Kent is the most famous of the seven Saxon kingdoms, because the Christian religion was preached to the Saxons there (who domineered over the Britons too much, to care for what…
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briefs (8)in #saxons • 13 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Child's History of England #6/210
They were in such distress, in short, that they sent a letter to Rome entreating help—which they called the Groans of the Britons; and in which they said, ‘The barbarians chase…
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briefs (8)in #romans • 19 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Child's History of England #5/210
And still, at last, as at first, the Britons rose against them, in their old brave manner; for, a very little while before, they had turned away the Roman magistrates, and…
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briefs (8)in #saxons • 23 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Child's History of England #4/210
His noble air, and dignified endurance of distress, so touched the Roman people who thronged the streets to see him, that he and his family were restored to freedom. No one knows…
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briefs (8)in #gaul • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Child's History of England #3/210
Such was the improved condition of the ancient Britons, fifty-five years before the birth of Our Saviour, when the Romans, under their great General, Julius Cæsar, were masters…
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briefs (8)in #chariots • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Child's History of England #2/210
The ancient Britons, being divided into as many as thirty or forty tribes, each commanded by its own little king, were constantly fighting with one another, as savage people…
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briefs (8)in #islands • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: A Child's History of England #1/210
CHAPTER I—ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANSIf you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea.…
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