The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone; (1886)
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston, Ticknor · leaf 146
stant battlements at Richmond, fromlofty Dover, royal Windsor, or dismantled Norham, we canrealize, as from no printed page, the wildness of the countryand its social forces, when toiling hands and lordly powerbuilt such enormous guards of conquest. We who watch thepeaceful coming and the quiet… … THE NORMAN PERIOD. 95 sake and the world, for which, with all its failings, it hasdone so much and yet will do much more, has grown so fairand prosperous. The advent and establishment of the Normans in Englandwas in many ways a most decisive conquest. They thoroughlysecured and firmly held the…
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