The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: The journal to Stella. A.D. 1710-1713G. Bell, 1902 |
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Page 198
... Scots , encouraged by the departure of the Romans , do now cruelly infest and invade the Britons by sea and land : The Britons choose Vortigern for their king , who was forced to invite the Saxons ( a fierce Northern people ) to assist ...
... Scots , encouraged by the departure of the Romans , do now cruelly infest and invade the Britons by sea and land : The Britons choose Vortigern for their king , who was forced to invite the Saxons ( a fierce Northern people ) to assist ...
Page 205
... Scots : but the enterprise was with- out success ; for the greatest part of his fleet was destroyed by a tempest , and his army very much diminished by sick- ness and famine , which forced him to a peace of little honour ; by which ...
... Scots : but the enterprise was with- out success ; for the greatest part of his fleet was destroyed by a tempest , and his army very much diminished by sick- ness and famine , which forced him to a peace of little honour ; by which ...
Page 207
... Scottish prince , pro- voked by such unworthy treatment , returned home with indignation ; but soon came back at the ... Scots , who were then set down before Alnwick Castle : there , by an ambush , Malcolm and his eldest son Edward were ...
... Scottish prince , pro- voked by such unworthy treatment , returned home with indignation ; but soon came back at the ... Scots , who were then set down before Alnwick Castle : there , by an ambush , Malcolm and his eldest son Edward were ...
Page 209
... Scots , as much perhaps and as unjustly as they were undervalued by the King , refused to come to his court , which , in those days , was looked on as the first usual mark of discontent in a nobleman ; and was often charged by princes ...
... Scots , as much perhaps and as unjustly as they were undervalued by the King , refused to come to his court , which , in those days , was looked on as the first usual mark of discontent in a nobleman ; and was often charged by princes ...
Page 219
... Scots ; a lady of great piety and virtue , who , by the power or persuasion of her friends , was prevailed with to leave her cloister for a crown , after she had , as some writers report , already taken the veil . Her mother was sister ...
... Scots ; a lady of great piety and virtue , who , by the power or persuasion of her friends , was prevailed with to leave her cloister for a crown , after she had , as some writers report , already taken the veil . Her mother was sister ...
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