A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 2A. Fullarton and Company, 1853 - Great Britain |
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... measures from motives rather personal than public , the same has been the case with reformers of much higher and purer characters , and that some of the grandest and most useful changes ever produced in the world have owed their ...
... measures from motives rather personal than public , the same has been the case with reformers of much higher and purer characters , and that some of the grandest and most useful changes ever produced in the world have owed their ...
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... measure for which a papal dispensation was obtained . About the same time , Margaret , the king's elder daughter , was married to James , king of Scotland . Eliza- beth , Henry's queen , died in February 1503. But neither prosperous nor ...
... measure for which a papal dispensation was obtained . About the same time , Margaret , the king's elder daughter , was married to James , king of Scotland . Eliza- beth , Henry's queen , died in February 1503. But neither prosperous nor ...
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... measure for securing which the queen had received the emperor's sup- port . Now began Wolsey's overthrow . There is reason to that he was more cautious and less vigorous in gratifying the " ; passions of the king , than suited the ...
... measure for securing which the queen had received the emperor's sup- port . Now began Wolsey's overthrow . There is reason to that he was more cautious and less vigorous in gratifying the " ; passions of the king , than suited the ...
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... measure to relent , and sent him a ring in token of regard . After his trial and condemnation , both in the Star chamber and in parliament , Henry granted him a pardon , and even after Wolsey's death , appears to have done honour to his ...
... measure to relent , and sent him a ring in token of regard . After his trial and condemnation , both in the Star chamber and in parliament , Henry granted him a pardon , and even after Wolsey's death , appears to have done honour to his ...
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... measure in his eye . He represented a matrimonial contract as having passed before his marriage , between Anne and the duke of Lorraine - a scheme , however , which appears to have been annulled ; and he also declared that he himself ...
... measure in his eye . He represented a matrimonial contract as having passed before his marriage , between Anne and the duke of Lorraine - a scheme , however , which appears to have been annulled ; and he also declared that he himself ...
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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.