 | North American review - 1851 - 568 pages
...shipwreck ; they are eager to purchase booty with the peril of their lives. Tempests, which to others are dreadful, to them are subjects of joy. The storm is...for their operations when they meditate an attack." Perhaps, if a Mexican bishop were to write a character of the descendants of these same Saxons, it... | |
 | John Fry - Church history - 1825 - 642 pages
...infallibly overtake : when they are pursued, their escape is certain. They despise danger ; they are iuured to shipwreck; they are eager to purchase booty with...devote, to the altars of their gods, the tenth part of the principal captives ; and when they are on the point of returning, the lots are cast with an affectation... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1825 - 560 pages
..." which to others are so dreadful, to them are " subjects of joy. The storm is their protection fc when they are pressed by the enemy, and a " cover...quit their own shores, •" they devote to the altars jpf their gods, the ** tenth part of the principal captives : and when " they are on the point of returning,... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1827 - 328 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...devote to the altars of their gods, the tenth part of the principal captives : and when they are on the point of returning, the lots are cast with an affectation... | |
 | Robert Wake - Southwold (England) - 1839 - 462 pages
...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 escape " is...for their operations when they meditate an attack." To this we may add an extract from one of the ancient Welsh poets, Llywarch Hen, who thus describes... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1844 - 390 pages
...or a large ship. See Bede, l. l5. Alfred's Version, ibid. Chron. Sal. ll. Gildas, c. xxiii. " tion when they are pressed by the enemy, and a cover "for...devote to the " altars of their gods the tenth part of the principal " captives : and when they are on the point of returning, " the lots are cast with an... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1849 - 550 pages
...Tempests, which to others are so dreadful, " to them are subjects of joy. The storm is their pro" tection when they are pressed by the enemy, and " a cover...devote to the altars of their gods the tenth part " of the principal captives : and when they are on the " point of returning, the lots are cast with an affec"... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1851 - 566 pages
...shipwreck; they are eager to purchase booty with the peril of their lives. Tempests, which to others are dreadful, to them are subjects of joy. The storm is...for their operations when they meditate an attack." Perhaps, if a Mexican bishop were to write a character of the descendants of these same Saxons, it... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1853 - 406 pages
...lembo. — Apol. Pan. Ami. v. 370. " tj.on when they are pressed by the enemy, and a cover <4 fi\r their operations when they meditate an attack, " Before...devote to the " altars of their gods the tenth part of the principal " captives : and when they are on the point of returning, ' " the lots are cast with... | |
 | John Lingard - 1854 - 342 pages
...terrors of the provinciate and the ravages of the barbarians. — "We have not," he says, "a more cruel and more dangerous enemy than the Saxons. They overcome...devote to the altars of their gods the tenth part of the principal captives ; and when they are on the point of returning, the lots are cast with an affectation... | |
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Gaulish bishop of the fifth century, " a more cruel and more 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... 
