The historical antiquities of Hertfordshire, Volumen2

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J.M. Mullinger, 1826

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Página 390 - Elizabeth his wife, for and during the term and terms of their natural lives, and the life of the longer liver of them, and...
Página 487 - She was so courteous and affable to all persons that she gained their love, yet not so familiar to expose herself to contempt. She was of a noble and generous soul, yet of so meek and humble a disposition that never any woman of her quality was greater in the world's opinion and less in her own.
Página 487 - Bible, written with her own hand, and never (till since her death) seen by any eye but her own, and her then dear, but now sorrowful husband, to the admiration both of her eminent piety in composing, and of her modesty in concealing. Then she was a most affectionate and observing wife to her husband, a most tender and indulgent mother to her children, a most kind and bountiful mistress to her family. In a word, she was so superlatively good, that language is too narrow to express her deserved character;...
Página 486 - God in the forty.fourth year of his age to change his great felicity into as great misery, by depriving him of his truly loving and entirely beloved wife, who was all his worldly bliss ; after which time humbly submitting to, and waiting on the will and pleasure of the Almighty, he did sorrowfully wear out...
Página 387 - Bench, the Master of the Rolls, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and...
Página 485 - ... was a profound scholar, an able statesman, and a good Christian ; he was a dutiful son to his mother the church of England in her persecution, as well as in her great splendor ; a loyal subject to his sovereign in those worst of times, when it was accounted treason not to be a traitor. " As he lived seventy yean a pattern of virtue, so he died an example of patience and piety, the fourth of December, in the year of our Lord 1649.
Página 485 - ... which should contribute most towards the making him a most accomplished gentleman ; he had an active body, and a vigorous soul ; his deportment was graceful, his discourse excellent, whether extemporary or premeditated, serious or jocular ; so that he seldom spake, but he did either instruct or delight those that heard him ; be was a profound scholar, an able statesman, and a good Christian...
Página 219 - Avalon, containing twelve hides of land. where they built a church of wreathen wands, and set a place apart for the burial of their servants. These holy men were devoted to a religious solitude, confined themselves to the number of twelve, lived there after the manner of Christ and the apostles, and, by their preaching, converted a great number of the Britons, who became Christians.
Página 273 - Anno 1381, to the Bailiffs of this Borrough, commanding them upon sight thereof to cause chains to be made, and to hang the Bodies in them upon the same Gallowes, there to remain so long as one Piece might stick to another, according to the Judgment.
Página 144 - Christian soul, from this world, in the name of God the Father Almighty, who created thee; in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, who suffered for thee ; in the name of the Holy Ghost who sanctified thee...