A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 2A. Fullarton and Company, 1853 - Great Britain |
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... executed , a monument of the mutability of honour , and of the in- security of favour in times of political distraction ... execution of Warbeck may have been blameless , —respecting that of Warwick we quote the words of Hume : - " This ...
... executed , a monument of the mutability of honour , and of the in- security of favour in times of political distraction ... execution of Warbeck may have been blameless , —respecting that of Warwick we quote the words of Hume : - " This ...
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... execution of his father , the duke of Clarence , Edward IV . had created him earl of Warwick . Even Richard , after the death of his own son , had treated him for a time as the heir - apparent , but afterwards , fearing that he might ...
... execution of his father , the duke of Clarence , Edward IV . had created him earl of Warwick . Even Richard , after the death of his own son , had treated him for a time as the heir - apparent , but afterwards , fearing that he might ...
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... execution , ordered them to be beheaded upon Towerhill , which was accordingly done on the 18th of August , 1510. With regard to the specific charge for which they suffered , there appears no sufficient evidence of the crime alleged ...
... execution , ordered them to be beheaded upon Towerhill , which was accordingly done on the 18th of August , 1510. With regard to the specific charge for which they suffered , there appears no sufficient evidence of the crime alleged ...
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... executed , in 1535. At the beginning of the following year , Catharine - to whom the king had given the title of princess - dowager of Wales , and from whom he had ordered the honours appropriate to royalty to be withheld - died at ...
... executed , in 1535. At the beginning of the following year , Catharine - to whom the king had given the title of princess - dowager of Wales , and from whom he had ordered the honours appropriate to royalty to be withheld - died at ...
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... executed , which greatly exasperated the clergy against the founder . Wolsey now became an aspirant after the pontificate , and to this splendid expectation he sacrificed his integrity as Henry's minister . Galt denies this : and asks ...
... executed , which greatly exasperated the clergy against the founder . Wolsey now became an aspirant after the pontificate , and to this splendid expectation he sacrificed his integrity as Henry's minister . Galt denies this : and asks ...
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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,...
Page 269 - Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ, Yet will I call on him: O spare me, Lucifer!
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.