The Norman Conquest was, to the English body politic, like one of those powerful drugs which seriously disorder the constitution for the time, but if the patient has strength to bear the
Like all soldiers of the ancient world, the Roman soldier was originally the able-bodied man of a small community, fighting to protect his folk and his lands from jealous neighbours. There can
The Asiatic tribes which embraced the religion of Mohammed, though presenting many diversities of character, were, during the middle ages, generally confounded under the name of Saracens, the original title of an