The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volumen1George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton & Company, 1863 |
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... circumstances , than any of his predecessors , to turn to account the advantageous position in which he was thus placed . This was the young Egbert , king of Wessex , whose reign forms so memorable an epoch in the history of his country ...
... circumstances , than any of his predecessors , to turn to account the advantageous position in which he was thus placed . This was the young Egbert , king of Wessex , whose reign forms so memorable an epoch in the history of his country ...
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... circumstances which brought about the final consolidation , under the single sway of Egbert the Great , of that fabric of polity which , during some previous centuries , had been rising as it were in so many separate parts in the ...
... circumstances which brought about the final consolidation , under the single sway of Egbert the Great , of that fabric of polity which , during some previous centuries , had been rising as it were in so many separate parts in the ...
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... circumstances in which he was thus placed , his noble energies had already threatened to lose themselves in a ca- reer of dissipation and profligacy . But both his years at this time , and the steady virtues of his manhood , forbid us ...
... circumstances in which he was thus placed , his noble energies had already threatened to lose themselves in a ca- reer of dissipation and profligacy . But both his years at this time , and the steady virtues of his manhood , forbid us ...
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... circumstances of the country in that age - should meet at least twice every year , thus providing a parliamentary , if not a popular check of considerable importance upon his own authority and that of his succes- sors . The general ...
... circumstances of the country in that age - should meet at least twice every year , thus providing a parliamentary , if not a popular check of considerable importance upon his own authority and that of his succes- sors . The general ...
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... circumstances of his age , his country , and even of his personal history . In his version , in like n.nner , of Orosius's Ancient History and Geography , he inserts from his own pen a sketch of the German nations , as well as an ...
... circumstances of his age , his country , and even of his personal history . In his version , in like n.nner , of Orosius's Ancient History and Geography , he inserts from his own pen a sketch of the German nations , as well as an ...
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The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of ..., Volumen1 George Godfrey Cunningham Vista de fragmentos - 1863 |
The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of ..., Volumen1 George Godfrey Cunningham Vista de fragmentos - 1863 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 623 - 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.
Página 703 - 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...
Página 518 - There was also borne before him, first, the great seal of England, and then his cardinal's hat, by a nobleman or some worthy gentleman, right solemnly, bareheaded.
Página 563 - 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.
Página 514 - He is a prince of a most royal carriage, and hath a princely heart; and rather than he will miss or want any part of his will, he will endanger the one half of his kingdom. "I do assure you, that I have often kneeled before him, sometimes three hours together, to persuade him from his will and appetite; but could not prevail...
Página 310 - He was a prince sad, serious, and full of thoughts and secret observations, and full of notes and memorials of his own hand, especially touching persons. As, whom to employ, whom to reward, whom to inquire of, whom to beware of, what were the dependencies, what were the factions, and the like ; keeping, as it were, a journal of his thoughts.
Página 748 - This was the first blood spilt in that fatal quarrel, which was not finished in less than a course of thirty years ; which was signalized by twelve pitched battles ; which opened a scene of extraordinary fierceness and cruelty ; is computed to have cost the lives of eighty princes of the blood ; and almost entirely annihilated the ancient nobility of England.
Página 703 - I owe thee a death, Lord, let it not be terrible, and then take thine own time: I submit to it: let not mine, O Lord! but let thy will be done.
Página 503 - ... prison, and by sundry artificial devices and terrors to extort from them great fines and ransoms, which they termed compositions and mitigations. Neither did they, towards the end, observe so much as the half-face of justice, in proceeding by indictment; but sent forth their precepts to attach men and convent them before themselves, and some others, at their private houses, in a court of commission ; and there used to shuffle up a summary proceeding by examination, without trial of jury; assuming...
Página 338 - The Countess of Montfort came down from the castle to meet them, and with a most cheerful countenance, kissed Sir Walter Manny, and all his companions, one after the other like a noble and valiant dame.