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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... soon became distressed from famine , and deserted him ; and Buckingham was then obliged to disguise himself , and seek for shelter and safety in the house of a servant of his family . There he was at last discovered , and brought before ...
... soon became distressed from famine , and deserted him ; and Buckingham was then obliged to disguise himself , and seek for shelter and safety in the house of a servant of his family . There he was at last discovered , and brought before ...
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... soon prepared to meet and resist him ; and a battle was fought between them at Bosworth in Leicestershire . On the side of Richard , the loss in this battle was very great , and he himself was among the slain . His body was found lying ...
... soon prepared to meet and resist him ; and a battle was fought between them at Bosworth in Leicestershire . On the side of Richard , the loss in this battle was very great , and he himself was among the slain . His body was found lying ...
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... soon quelled . This was headed by a person named Perken Warbeck , who pretended that he was the Duke of York , the little prince , who , you remember , was so cruelly smothered in the Tower , with his brother young Edward V. There was ...
... soon quelled . This was headed by a person named Perken Warbeck , who pretended that he was the Duke of York , the little prince , who , you remember , was so cruelly smothered in the Tower , with his brother young Edward V. There was ...
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... soon to be undertaken . Men remarkable for talents and learning were rising up here and there , fitted by circumstances to act an important part when the time , the right time , should arrive . Do you remember what I told you when we ...
... soon to be undertaken . Men remarkable for talents and learning were rising up here and there , fitted by circumstances to act an important part when the time , the right time , should arrive . Do you remember what I told you when we ...
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... soon became a great favourite with the people . He had superior abilities too , and a good share of learning , and altogether there appeared to be every hope of a happy and prosperous reign . In the early part of the reign of Henry VIII ...
... soon became a great favourite with the people . He had superior abilities too , and a good share of learning , and altogether there appeared to be every hope of a happy and prosperous reign . In the early part of the reign of Henry VIII ...
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Page 364 - 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 353 - 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 272 - 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 360 - 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 267 - 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 293 - 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.