 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 878 pages
...English conquest was a sheer dispossession and slaughter of the people whom the English conquered. Li all the world-wide struggle between Rome and the German...merciless nature of the struggle that of all the German conqnests this proved the most thorough and complete. At its close Britain liad become England, a land... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 622 pages
...complete the conquest of Southern Britain, and that the conquest of the bulk of the island was only wrought out after two centuries of bitter warfare. But it was just through the length of the struggle that of all the German conquests this proved the most thorough and complete.... | |
 | 1879 - 794 pages
...spoken with similar confidence, and almost as sweepingly : — " The conquest of Britain," he says, " was, indeed, only partly wrought out after two centuries of bitter warfare. But ... at its close, Britain had become England, a land, that is, not of Britons but of Englishmen. It... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1881 - 580 pages
...to complete the conquest of Southern Britain, while the conquest of the bulk of the island was only wrought out after two centuries of bitter warfare. But it was just through the length of the struggle that, of all the German conquests, this was the most thorough and complete.... | |
 | Edward Clodd, Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 382 pages
...spoken v/ith similar confidence, and almost as sweepingly : — "The conquest of Britain," he says, "was, indeed, only partly wrought out after two centuries of bitter warfare. But .... at its close, Britain had become England, a land, that is, not of Britons but of Englishmen. It... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1884 - 838 pages
...and slaughter of the people whom the English conquered. In all the world-wide struggle between Home and the German invaders no land was so stubbornly...merciless nature of the struggle that of all the German conqnests this proved the most thorough and complete. At its close Britain had become England, a land... | |
 | Henry Preble, Charles Pomeroy Parker - 1884 - 116 pages
...complete the conquest of Southern Britain, and that the conquest of the bulk of the island was only wrought out after two centuries of bitter warfare. But it was just through the length of the struggle, that of all the German conquests, this proved the most thorough and complete.... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1889 - 944 pages
...fifty years was a sheer dispossession and driving back of the people whom the English conquered. In the world-wide struggle between Rome and the German...conquests this proved the most thorough and complete. So far as the English sword in t'.iese earlier days reached, Britain became England, a land, that is,... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1889 - 954 pages
...fifty years was a sheer dispossession and driving back of the people whom the English conquered. In the world-wide struggle between Rome and the German...conquests this proved the most thorough and complete. So far as the English sword in these earlier days reached, Britain became England, a land, that is,... | |
 | John Richard Green, Alice Stopford Green, Kate Norgate - 1894 - 576 pages
...back of the people whom the English TO conquered. In the world-wide struggle between Rome and the _ German invaders no land was so stubbornly fought for...•conquests this proved the most thorough and complete. So far as the English sword in these earlier days reached, Britain became England, a land, that is,... | |
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The conquest of Britain was indeed only partly wrought out after two centuries of bitter warfare. But it was just through the long and merciless nature of the struggle that of all the German conquests this proved the most thorough and complete. So far... 
