Eminent British Statesmen: Sir Thomas More [by Sir J. Mackintosh] Cardinal Wolsey. Archbishop Cranmer. William Cecil, Lord Burleigh [by J. Macdiarmid1831 |
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... authority and severity , as More won by gentleness and pleasantry . Though verging on old age , and not of a yielding temper , he prevailed on her to take lessons on the lute , the cithara , the viol , the monochord , and the flute ...
... authority and severity , as More won by gentleness and pleasantry . Though verging on old age , and not of a yielding temper , he prevailed on her to take lessons on the lute , the cithara , the viol , the monochord , and the flute ...
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... authority of parents ; to bestow a sort of dignity on humble occu- pations ; to raise menial offices to the rank of virtues ; to spread peace and cultivate kindness among those who had shared , and were soon again to share , the same mo ...
... authority of parents ; to bestow a sort of dignity on humble occu- pations ; to raise menial offices to the rank of virtues ; to spread peace and cultivate kindness among those who had shared , and were soon again to share , the same mo ...
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... authority in the hands of the superior courts at Westminster , which contributed to the purity and dignity of the judicial character , as well as to a perfect uniformity and a con- stant improvement of the administration of law ; a ...
... authority in the hands of the superior courts at Westminster , which contributed to the purity and dignity of the judicial character , as well as to a perfect uniformity and a con- stant improvement of the administration of law ; a ...
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... authority due to magistrates fall to the ground : for I cannot imagine how they can be kept up among those that are in all things equal to one another . " These " * Utopia , 57. Happening to write where I have no access to the original ...
... authority due to magistrates fall to the ground : for I cannot imagine how they can be kept up among those that are in all things equal to one another . " These " * Utopia , 57. Happening to write where I have no access to the original ...
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... authority : " When them he perceived so much in his talk to delight , that he could not once in a month get leave to go home to his wife and children ( whose company he most desired ) , he , much misliking this restraint on his liberty ...
... authority : " When them he perceived so much in his talk to delight , that he could not once in a month get leave to go home to his wife and children ( whose company he most desired ) , he , much misliking this restraint on his liberty ...
Términos y frases comunes
affairs ambition Anne Boleyn answer appears appointed archbishop archbishop of Canterbury authority bishop Burleigh Burnet Calais cardinal cardinal's catholic cause Cecil chancellor character church circumstances clergy common conduct conscience considered council court Cranmer Cromwell crown danger death declared dignity doctrines duke duke of Norfolk earl ecclesiastical effect Elizabeth enemies England English Erasmus father favour fortune France grace hand hath Henry VIII Henry's heresy honour Ibid Jane Colt king king's labour learning letter London Lyddington majesty Margaret Roper marriage Mary matter means ment mind minister monarch More's nation nature ness never Northumberland occasion opinion papal parliament person pleasure pope prelates present prince privy privy council procured protestants punishment queen of Scots quoth realm received reformation reign religion rendered Rome Roper royal says Scotland seemed sir Thomas Somerset sovereign subjects things tion unto Utopia William Lord Burghley Wolsey Wolsey's zeal
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Página 172 - Well, well, Master Kingston,' quoth he, ' I see the matter against me how it is framed ; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 92 - I do nobody no harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith I long not to live.
Página 192 - After I had written this letter unto your grace, my lord chancellor, &c. sent for me to come unto the starchamber; and there declared unto me such things as your grace's pleasure was they should make me privy unto. For the which I am most bounden unto your grace. And what communication we had therein, I doubt not but they will make the true report thereof to your grace. I am exceedingly sorry that such faults can be proved by the queen as I heard of their relation. But I am, and ever shall be, your...
Página 9 - And albeit his mind most served him to the second daughter, for that he thought her the fairest and best favoured, yet when he considered that it would be both great grief and some shame also to the eldest to see her younger sister preferred before her in marriage, he then, of a certain pity, framed his fancy toward her, and soon after married her...
Página 221 - It is a goodly matter," she said, " to consider your ignorance. It was not long ago since you burned Anne Askew for a piece of bread, and yet came yourselves soon after to believe and profess the same doctrine for which you burned her. And now, forsooth, you will needs burn me for a piece of flesh, and in the end you will come to believe this also, when you have read the Scriptures and understand them.
Página 185 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Página 130 - There wanted no dames, or damsels, meet or apt to dance with the maskers, or to garnish the place for the time, with other goodly disports. Then was there all kind of music and harmony set forth, with excellent voices both of men and children. I have seen the king suddenly come in thither in a mask, with a dozen of other maskers, all in garments like shepherds...
Página 32 - And other whiles, in the night, would he have him up into the leads, there to consider with him the diversities, courses, motions, and operations of the stars and planets. And because he was of a pleasant disposition, it pleased the king and queen, after the council had supped, at the time of their supper, for their pleasure commonly to call for him to be merry with them.
Página 43 - Would to God you had been at Rome, Mr More, when I made you Speaker.
Página 129 - And when it pleased the King's Majesty, for his recreation, to repair unto the Cardinal's house, as he did divers times in the year( at which time there wanted no preparations, or goodly furniture, with viands of the finest sort that might be provided for money or friendship...