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Frank Fox. England
England
Table of Contents
ENGLAND
CHAPTER I
THE MAKING OF ENGLAND—THE BRITONS AND THE ROMANS
CHAPTER II
THE MAKING OF ENGLAND—THE ANGLO-SAXONS AND THE NORMANS
CHAPTER III
THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE AND THE ENGLISH LOVE OF IT
CHAPTER IV
THE TRAINING OF YOUNG ENGLAND
CHAPTER V
ENGLAND AT WORK
CHAPTER VI
ENGLAND AT PLAY
CHAPTER VII
THE CITIES OF ENGLAND
CHAPTER VIII
THE RIVERS OF ENGLAND
CHAPTER IX
ENGLAND'S SHRINES
CHAPTER X
THE POORER POPULATION
CHAPTER XI
THE ARTS IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER XII
POLITICAL LIFE IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER XIII
THE DEFENCE OF ENGLAND
INDEX
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Frank Fox
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But the issue was never fought out. There had begun the most momentous swarming of a human race that history records. Along the Scandinavian and the Danish peninsulas, and the northern coast of Germany, there had been swelling up a vast population of fierce, strong, courageous and hungry men; Angles, Saxons, Danes, Jutes, Norsemen—they were all very much akin: big blue-eyed men of mighty daring mated with fair, chaste, fruitful women; and they swarmed out of their warrens to over-run the greater part of Europe. You may trace them to the interior of Russia, to Iceland, to Constantinople, some think to North America. But, whatever their path, the British Islands were athwart the track they took, and the British Islands received the most complete flood of Anglo-Saxon blood. Again it was England that made way most easily to the invader. The Anglo-Saxons came and cleared out the Romanised and Christian civilisation from Yorkshire to Kent. But the fiercer British natives who had held back the Romans, held back also these new invaders, helped thereto by the fact that their lands seemed to be hungry, and to offer but little booty. England, fat, fertile, like a beautiful park with its forests and meadows and rivers, was at once a richer and an easier prize.
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