A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 2A. Fullarton, 1853 - Great Britain |
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... cause of comets , which has been so long sought for in vain . " " What is it ? " " It is the concourse of the light of the wandering stars . " But the king said , " as the stars move in such different motions , this concourse must be ...
... cause of comets , which has been so long sought for in vain . " " What is it ? " " It is the concourse of the light of the wandering stars . " But the king said , " as the stars move in such different motions , this concourse must be ...
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... cause of the Lancastrian king . A hostile attempt , however , against This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss . His looks are full of peaceful majesty ; His head by nature framed to wear a crown , His hand to wield a sceptre ...
... cause of the Lancastrian king . A hostile attempt , however , against This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss . His looks are full of peaceful majesty ; His head by nature framed to wear a crown , His hand to wield a sceptre ...
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... cause divers subjects to be indicted for sundry crimes , and so far forth to proceed in form of law ; but , when the bills were found , then presently to commit them ; and , nevertheless , not to produce them in any reasonable time to ...
... cause divers subjects to be indicted for sundry crimes , and so far forth to proceed in form of law ; but , when the bills were found , then presently to commit them ; and , nevertheless , not to produce them in any reasonable time to ...
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... cause , and gave him instructions as to the mode of making an attack on the neighbouring country . But the Spanish monarch appear- ing to the marquess of Dorset , who commanded Henry's troops , dis- Biog . Brit . Herbert , apud Kennet ...
... cause , and gave him instructions as to the mode of making an attack on the neighbouring country . But the Spanish monarch appear- ing to the marquess of Dorset , who commanded Henry's troops , dis- Biog . Brit . Herbert , apud Kennet ...
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... cause , and the royal parties ap- peared before them . At the opening of the court , Catharine fell at Henry's feet , and made a pathetic expostulation with him on his con- duct in wishing to be divided from his tried and faithful queen ...
... cause , and the royal parties ap- peared before them . At the opening of the court , Catharine fell at Henry's feet , and made a pathetic expostulation with him on his con- duct in wishing to be divided from his tried and faithful queen ...
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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 300 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 300 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
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 300 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Page 300 - We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us. That our hearts are now more capacious, our thoughts more erected to the search and expectation of greatest and exactest things...
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 219 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations, and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...
Page 293 - Yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries, as if, while the temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irrational men who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built.
Page 300 - Believe it, Lords and Commons, they who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves; and I will soon show how. If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild, and free, and...