 | North American review - 1851 - 568 pages
...earth. Sidonius, bishop of Clermont, writing in the fifth century, exclaims : " We have not a more cruel and more dangerous enemy than the Saxons. They overcome...attack. When they pursue, they infallibly overtake ; and when they are pursued, their escape is certain. They despise danger ; they are inured to shipwreck... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1825 - 560 pages
...pelle salum sulcare Britanmnn Ludus, et assuto glaucum mare findere lembo. Apol. Pan. Avit. v. 370. " and more dangerous enemy than the Saxons. " They overcome...are so " imprudent as not to be prepared for their at" tack. When they pursue, they infallibly over" take : when they are pursued, their escape is * certain.... | |
 | John Fry - Church history - 1825 - 642 pages
...kingdom of Kent. .Sidonius, bishop of Clermont, thus describes the Saxons: " We have not a more cruel enemy than the Saxons. They overcome all who have...courage to oppose them. They surprise all who are so 4 AD 448. imprudent as not to be prepared for their attack. When they, pursue, they infallibly overtake... | |
 | Robert Wake - Southwold (England) - 1839 - 462 pages
...have been thus eloquently described by Sidonius, Bishop of Clermont. " We have not," he writes, " a more dangerous enemy than the Saxons. They " overcome...They surprise all who are so imprudent as not to be pre" pared for their attack. When they pursue, they in" fallibly overtake. When they are pursued their... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1840 - 480 pages
...(t) Cni pelle salum sulcare Britaunum Alfred's Version, ibid. Chron. Sax. 12. Gildas. " more cruel and more dangerous enemy than the Saxons. They " overcome all who have the courage to oppose them. They sur" prise all who are so imprudent as not lobe prepared for their at" tack. When they pursue, they... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1844 - 390 pages
...of the provincials and the ravages of the barbarians. — "We have ' not," he says, " a more cruel and more dangerous ' enemy than the Saxons. They overcome...' are so imprudent as not to be prepared for their at" tack. When they pursue, they infallibly overtake : ' when they are pursued, their escape is certain.... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1849 - 550 pages
...terrors of the provincials and the ravages of the barbarians. — " We have not," he says, " a more cruel and more dangerous enemy than the " Saxons. They overcome...courage " to oppose them. They surprise all who are so im" prudent as not to be prepared for their attack. " When they pursue, they infallibly overtake :... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1851 - 566 pages
...earth. Sidonius, bishop of Clermont, writing in the fifth century, exclaims : " We have not a more cruel and more dangerous enemy than the Saxons. They overcome...attack. When they pursue, they infallibly overtake ; and when they are pursued, their escape is certain. They despise danger ; they are inured to shipwreck;... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1853 - 406 pages
...of the provincials and the ravages of the barbarians. — " We have ** not," he says, " a more cruel and more dangerous ** enemy than the Saxons. They..." are so imprudent as not to be prepared for their at" tack. When they pursue, they infallibly overtake : f" when they are pursued, their escape is certain.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - America - 1855 - 436 pages
...preface our remarks with what a writer* of the 5th century says of the Anglo-Saxons of his day : " They overcome all who have the courage to oppose them...attack. When they pursue, they infallibly overtake ; and when they are pursued, their escape is certain. They despise danger ; they are inured to shipwreck... | |
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a more cruel and dangerous enemy than the Saxons. They overcome all who have the courage to oppose them. They surprise all who are so imprudent as not to be prepared for their attack. When they pursue, they inevitably overtake : when they are pursued,... 
