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... never any that meddled with them that repented it not . 3. Charlemagne , halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul , looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean . They even entered the port of the ...
... never any that meddled with them that repented it not . 3. Charlemagne , halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul , looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean . They even entered the port of the ...
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... Never was poor gentle- man so surfeited with life , so furious to be rid of it , as the Northman . If he cannot pick any other quarrel , he will get himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns , like Egil , or slain by a land - slide ...
... Never was poor gentle- man so surfeited with life , so furious to be rid of it , as the Northman . If he cannot pick any other quarrel , he will get himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns , like Egil , or slain by a land - slide ...
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... never turned his back on a danger , yet of that tenderness that he would not brush away a mosquito . " Even for their high- waymen the same virtue is claimed , and Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus prædo- num ; the gentlest ...
... never turned his back on a danger , yet of that tenderness that he would not brush away a mosquito . " Even for their high- waymen the same virtue is claimed , and Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus prædo- num ; the gentlest ...
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... never reach cold water in England . Wood the antiquary , in describing the poverty and mac- eration of Father Lacey , an English Jesuit , does not deny him beer . He says " His bed was under a thatching , and the way to it up a ladder ...
... never reach cold water in England . Wood the antiquary , in describing the poverty and mac- eration of Father Lacey , an English Jesuit , does not deny him beer . He says " His bed was under a thatching , and the way to it up a ladder ...
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... never per- formed any eminent service beyond the seas ; and the reason assigned was that the genius of the Eng- lish hath always more inclined them to foot - service , as pure and proper manhood , without any mixture ; whilst in a ...
... never per- formed any eminent service beyond the seas ; and the reason assigned was that the genius of the Eng- lish hath always more inclined them to foot - service , as pure and proper manhood , without any mixture ; whilst in a ...
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