Quotes About Hengist

When these things were represented to the king, he was mightily pleased, as being very unwilling to part with Hengist; and at last ordered his subjects and the Saxons to meet upon the kalends of May, which were now very near, at the monastery of Ambrius,[63] for the settling of the matters above mentioned.

Jefferson, acknowledging Providence, gave equal importance to the legal conceit of America's birth: on one side the Israelites in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night; on the reverse, Hengist and Horsa, the Saxon chiefs "from whom we claim the honor of being descended, and whose political principles and form of government we have assumed.