| 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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