Note 028 We may compare this portrait with that of William of Malmsbury, (de Gestis Anglorum, l. iii. p. 101, 102,) who appreciates, like a philosophic historian, the vices and virtues of the Saxons and Normans. England was assuredly a gainer by the conquest.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 56