A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 2A. Fullarton and Company, 1853 - Great Britain |
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... course , his successors on the throne - there occurred in England some of the most remarkable transactions which its history records . So prominently , however , did almost all the reigning monarchs of this period act in the public mat ...
... course , his successors on the throne - there occurred in England some of the most remarkable transactions which its history records . So prominently , however , did almost all the reigning monarchs of this period act in the public mat ...
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... course of these busy times . In Elizabeth's reign , in particular , the wish to gratify a queen who set her heart on the success of naval and military enterprise , -the sense of actual danger to the independence and religion of the ...
... course of these busy times . In Elizabeth's reign , in particular , the wish to gratify a queen who set her heart on the success of naval and military enterprise , -the sense of actual danger to the independence and religion of the ...
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... course to the house of Lancaster , whose claims to the English crown were so zealously dis- puted with the rival family of York . When , in May , 1471 , the ad- herents of the former line were defeated at the battle of Tewksbury , the ...
... course to the house of Lancaster , whose claims to the English crown were so zealously dis- puted with the rival family of York . When , in May , 1471 , the ad- herents of the former line were defeated at the battle of Tewksbury , the ...
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... course of these protracted operations on the continent , the at- tempts to collect a subsidy granted in November , 1487 , had excited , in the counties of York and Durham , a violent excitement , such as to in- duce Henry to send down a ...
... course of these protracted operations on the continent , the at- tempts to collect a subsidy granted in November , 1487 , had excited , in the counties of York and Durham , a violent excitement , such as to in- duce Henry to send down a ...
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... course of the year 1506 , Henry committed to the Tower the earl of Suffolk , nephew of Edward IV . having previously induced Philip of Castile to yield him up into his hands . There is recorded a conversation between these two princes ...
... course of the year 1506 , Henry committed to the Tower the earl of Suffolk , nephew of Edward IV . having previously induced Philip of Castile to yield him up into his hands . There is recorded a conversation between these two princes ...
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Page 299 - And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 139 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 299 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 362 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age 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 292 - ... there be pens and heads there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people,...
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Page 56 - I nothing malign for that you have done to me, but the eternal God forgive you my death, as I do; I shall never sue to the king for life, howbeit he is a gracious prince, and more grace may come from him than I desire. I desire you, my lords, and all my fellows to pray for me.
Page 293 - ... tradition of crowding free consciences and Christian liberties into canons and precepts of men. I doubt not, if some great and worthy stranger should come among us, wise to discern the mould and temper of a people, and how to govern it, observing the high hopes and aims, the diligent alacrity of our extended thoughts and reasonings in the pursuance of truth and freedom, but that he would cry out, as...
Page 416 - Let him for succour sue from place to place, Torn from his subjects, and his son's embrace. First let him see his friends in battle slain, And their untimely fate lament in vain ; And when at length the cruel war shall cease, On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, But fall untimely by some hostile hand, And lie unburied on the barren sand.
Page 79 - Here landeth as true a subject, being a prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee, O God! I speak it, having no other friends but thee alone.