Our native land, or, Scenes and sketches from British history, by the author of 'Scriptural instruction for the least and lowest'.1855 |
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... returned and invaded Eng- land . However , this rebellion was ended by a battle which took place at Stoke in Notting- hamshire , in which the party of Simnel was defeated , and himself taken prisoner . In order to prevent him from doing ...
... returned and invaded Eng- land . However , this rebellion was ended by a battle which took place at Stoke in Notting- hamshire , in which the party of Simnel was defeated , and himself taken prisoner . In order to prevent him from doing ...
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... returning as he best could to Spain . He took a northerly direction , intending to sail round the British Isles , but while still near the coast , another storm arose , and a most tremen- dous one it was . The English returned home ...
... returning as he best could to Spain . He took a northerly direction , intending to sail round the British Isles , but while still near the coast , another storm arose , and a most tremen- dous one it was . The English returned home ...
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... this , however , he returned home immediately , rushed into the presence of the Queen , and threw himself on his knees before her . Elizabeth received him better than he had feared ; but she had PROSPEROUS TIMES . 129.
... this , however , he returned home immediately , rushed into the presence of the Queen , and threw himself on his knees before her . Elizabeth received him better than he had feared ; but she had PROSPEROUS TIMES . 129.
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... returned to England , he was arrested , and again committed to the Tower . Gondomar violently demanded vengeance , and James offered to deliver up the unfortunate Raleigh to the mercy of the king of Spain . This was de- clined ; but it ...
... returned to England , he was arrested , and again committed to the Tower . Gondomar violently demanded vengeance , and James offered to deliver up the unfortunate Raleigh to the mercy of the king of Spain . This was de- clined ; but it ...
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... returned , and he was then able to make the necessary arrangement of his affairs with his usual composure . On the appointed day , Strafford was led to execution . As he passed under the window of the room in which Laud was confined ...
... returned , and he was then able to make the necessary arrangement of his affairs with his usual composure . On the appointed day , Strafford was led to execution . As he passed under the window of the room in which Laud was confined ...
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Page 366 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 164 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 57 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 57 - A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels...
Page 355 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Page 274 - Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 362 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Page 157 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 269 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 295 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.