The Life of Lady Jane GreyC. M. Saxton, 1858 - 298 pages |
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... Guildford Dudley.— Edward VI . a victim to Northumberland . - Makes his Will in favor of Lady Jane Grey . - Troubles with the Council . - Innocence of Lady Jane .. 124 136 CHAPTER VIII . The Princess Mary . - Her early X CONTENTS .
... Guildford Dudley.— Edward VI . a victim to Northumberland . - Makes his Will in favor of Lady Jane Grey . - Troubles with the Council . - Innocence of Lady Jane .. 124 136 CHAPTER VIII . The Princess Mary . - Her early X CONTENTS .
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... innocent usurpation of the English crown , it will be necessary briefly to sketch the history of the Protestant Reformation in England , and therefore to go back to the com- mencement of Henry VIII.'s reign . That prince was in his ...
... innocent usurpation of the English crown , it will be necessary briefly to sketch the history of the Protestant Reformation in England , and therefore to go back to the com- mencement of Henry VIII.'s reign . That prince was in his ...
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... innocent , and still were convicted . Mark Smeaton to save his head and himself from further pain , confessed , put his name to the doc- ument , and then had his head cut off that he might make no after confessions or retractions ...
... innocent , and still were convicted . Mark Smeaton to save his head and himself from further pain , confessed , put his name to the doc- ument , and then had his head cut off that he might make no after confessions or retractions ...
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... innocence , for no evidence was there against her . Cranmer at this time pronounced her marriage null and void , and that it always had been so- thus bastardizing Elizabeth , who afterwards be- came so powerful . The ground of Cranmer's ...
... innocence , for no evidence was there against her . Cranmer at this time pronounced her marriage null and void , and that it always had been so- thus bastardizing Elizabeth , who afterwards be- came so powerful . The ground of Cranmer's ...
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... innocence of the crimes im- puted to her . Her message to the king will ever be remembered for its sarcastic bitterness : " Com- mend me to his majesty , " said she , " and tell him he hath been ever constant in his career of advancing ...
... innocence of the crimes im- puted to her . Her message to the king will ever be remembered for its sarcastic bitterness : " Com- mend me to his majesty , " said she , " and tell him he hath been ever constant in his career of advancing ...
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Page 112 - I wise, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 112 - and tell you a truth which,- perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Page 179 - JANE, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and also of Ireland, under Christ, in Earth the supreme Head.
Page 112 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing...
Page 113 - I am with him. And when I am called from him I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Page 138 - the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parent's offences.
Page 147 - Rather do thou walk with him, ride with him, play with him, be his faery, his page, his everything that love and poetry have invented ; but watch him well ; sport with his fancies ; turn them about like the ringlets round his cheek; and if ever he meditate on power, go toss up thy baby to his brow, and bring back his thoughts into his heart by the music of thy discourse. Teach him to live unto God and unto thee ; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and...
Page 147 - I sincerely love the youth who hath espoused me ; I love him with the fondest, the most solicitous affection ; I pray to the Almighty for his goodness and happiness, and do forget at times, unworthy supplicant ! the prayers I should have offered for myself. Never fear that I will disparage my kind religious teacher, by disobedience to my husband in the most trying duties.
Page 42 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Page 276 - God ? Far be that from me. I am thy workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. Give me grace, therefore, to tarry thy leisure, and patiently to bear thy works, assuredly knowing, that as thou canst, so thou wilt, deliver me, when it shall please thee, nothing doubting or mistrusting thy goodness towards me ; for thou knowest better what is good for me than I do : therefore do with me in all things what thou wilt, and plague me what way thou wilt.