Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

A Child's History of England — Chapter 2 (1900)

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Portrait of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens,  A Child's History of England — Chapter 2 (1900)

“ ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS.
The Romans had scarcely gone away from Britain, when the Britons began to wish they had never left it. For, the Roman soldiers being gone, and the Britons being much reduced in numbers by their long wars, the Picts and Scots came pouring in, over the broken and unguarded wall of Severus, in swarms. They plundered the richest towns, and killed the people; and came back so often for more booty and more slaughter, that the unfortunate Britons lived a life of terror. ”
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Portrait of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens,  A Child's History of England — Chapter 2 (1900)

“ And in Cornwall now—where the seacoast is very gloomy, steep, and rugged—where, in the dark winter time, ships have been often wrecked close to the land, and every soul on board has perished—where the winds and waves howl drearily, and split the solid rocks into arches and caverns—there are very ancient ruins, which the people call the ruins of King Arthur's Castle. ”
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Portrait of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens,  A Child's History of England — Chapter 2 (1900)

“ In, and long after, the days of Vortigern, fresh bodies of Saxons, under various chiefs, came pouring into Britain. One body, conquering the Britons in the East, and settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled in the West, and called their kingdom Wessex; the Northfolk, or Norfolk people, established themselves in one place; the Southfolk, or Suffolk people, established themselves in another; and gradually seven kingdoms or states arose in England, which were called the Saxon Heptarchy. ”
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