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... Side - saddles first used , 129 Silk - women , 153 Sir Walter Raleigh , fate of , 214 Verses of , 215 South - sea bubble , 272 Spanish Armada , 200 St. Paul's Cathedral destroyed , 33 Rebuilt , 83 Sterling money first coined , 79 ...
... Side - saddles first used , 129 Silk - women , 153 Sir Walter Raleigh , fate of , 214 Verses of , 215 South - sea bubble , 272 Spanish Armada , 200 St. Paul's Cathedral destroyed , 33 Rebuilt , 83 Sterling money first coined , 79 ...
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... side , at a very difficult ford , he sees the enemy drawn up on the oppo- site bank ; besides their great numbers they had fortified that part of the river with sharp stakes , † driven so deep that some of them did not appear above the ...
... side , at a very difficult ford , he sees the enemy drawn up on the oppo- site bank ; besides their great numbers they had fortified that part of the river with sharp stakes , † driven so deep that some of them did not appear above the ...
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... side , and made him fresh presents , rejoicing that he had , by fraud and surprise , obtained from the man in all England most capable of frustrating his projects , a public and solemn oath to serve and assist him . Thierry's History ...
... side , and made him fresh presents , rejoicing that he had , by fraud and surprise , obtained from the man in all England most capable of frustrating his projects , a public and solemn oath to serve and assist him . Thierry's History ...
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... side , is evidently proved by that minute attention to familiar and local circumstances evinced † Matilda did not live long enough to complete her embroidered chronicle of the conquest of England . The outline of the pattern traced on ...
... side , is evidently proved by that minute attention to familiar and local circumstances evinced † Matilda did not live long enough to complete her embroidered chronicle of the conquest of England . The outline of the pattern traced on ...
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... side foremost . Those who stood by and saw this cursed it as an unfortunate omen ; but the duke's sewer again bade them be of good cheer , and declared that this also was a token of good fortune - namely , that those things which had ...
... side foremost . Those who stood by and saw this cursed it as an unfortunate omen ; but the duke's sewer again bade them be of good cheer , and declared that this also was a token of good fortune - namely , that those things which had ...
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Page 201 - My loving people, — -We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Page 287 - 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 287 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment : it is not a time for adulation ; the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Page 175 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Page 215 - It is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but Abjects, and humbles them at the instant ; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness.
Page 201 - I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation and sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all ; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Page 202 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 309 - It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a .modern workhouse...
Page 291 - I am going fast; it will be all over with me soon. Come nearer to me. Let my dear Lady Hamilton have my hair and all other things belonging to me.
Page 287 - We do not know the worst : but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.