It was conquered by the Romans, it was conquered by the English, and it was conquered by the Normans.
the Romans landed in Britain, and for nearly four hundred years after that they kept coming and going.
But when the victorious Romans brought with them the heavy solid fortifications impregnable to the weapons of the time, its commanding position alone ensured its adequate building and equipment.
That to the east, where the trees are, lower down--that was once the location of a Roman temple, possibly founded on a pre-existing Druidical one.
Never any state was in this point so open to receive strangers into their body, as were the Romans. Therefore it sorted with them accordingly; for they grew to the greatest monarchy.
Romulus, after his death (as they report or feign), sent a present to the Romans, that above all, they should intend arms; and then they should prove the greatest empire of the world.
I was concerned in getting at the Greeks and
Romans, and I did not know through what nimble air and by what lovely ways I was led to them.
The left wing of the royalist army, under the King of the
Romans and his gallant son, was not so fortunate for they met a determined resistance at the hands of Henry de Montfort.
"Thou forgettest, however, Ben-Levi," replied Abel-Phittim, "that the
Roman Pompey, who is now impiously besieging the city of the Most High, has no assurity that we apply not the lambs thus purchased for the altar, to the sustenance of the body, rather than of the spirit."
She had the proud, impetuous face that goes with reddish colouring, and a
Roman nose, as it did in Marie Antoinette.
The process by which Britain became England was a part of the long agony which transformed the
Roman Empire into modern Europe.
Thus, the
Roman abbey, the philosophers' church, the Gothic art, Saxon art, the heavy, round pillar, which recalls Gregory VII., the hermetic symbolism, with which Nicolas Flamel played the prelude to Luther, papal unity, schism, Saint-Germain des Prés, Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie,--all are mingled, combined, amalgamated in Notre-Dame.
(though at the cost of how much humiliation when they were made to realise their error!), and it was also possible that He would be pitiful to those who had had no chance of learning the truth,--this was reasonable enough, though such were the activities of the Missionary Society there could not be many in this condition--but if the chance had been theirs and they had neglected it (in which category were obviously
Roman Catholics and Dissenters), the punishment was sure and merited.
"The King's garden is not the world, you foolish squib," said a big
Roman Candle; "the world is an enormous place, and it would take you three days to see it thoroughly."
A man of rank, too, and rich--a man who, if he had continued to serve, might have done anything; and then to throw up the service and everything else in order to go over to
Roman Catholicism and turn Jesuit-- openly, too--almost triumphantly.
