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The many hostile principalities of England were first merged in the Heptarchy; and these seven kingdoms became one under the Saxon Egbert.
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Sumner recounts the merging of England's hostile principalities into a unified kingdom.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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