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... land just what it most needed . Duke William of Normandy , " the Con- queror , " with the aid of a large retinue of Norman followers pacified the whole island except Wales and Scotland . He then set up a centralized government , with ...
... land just what it most needed . Duke William of Normandy , " the Con- queror , " with the aid of a large retinue of Norman followers pacified the whole island except Wales and Scotland . He then set up a centralized government , with ...
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... land were reclaimed , and the country at large began to take on the appearance of a planted garden . The in- dependent small farmers , yeomen , became for a time more prosperous ; even a tenant farmer who rented his land had a chance to ...
... land were reclaimed , and the country at large began to take on the appearance of a planted garden . The in- dependent small farmers , yeomen , became for a time more prosperous ; even a tenant farmer who rented his land had a chance to ...
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... land that freemen till , 5 That sober - suited Freedom chose , The land , where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government , A land of just and old renown , Where Freedom slowly broadens ...
... land that freemen till , 5 That sober - suited Freedom chose , The land , where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government , A land of just and old renown , Where Freedom slowly broadens ...
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Literary Masters of England Nelson Sherwin Bushnell,Paul Milton Fulcher,Warner Taylor Snippet view - 1936 |
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