A plain and short history of England for children;in letters from a father to his son, by the editor of the Cottager's monthly visitor1829 |
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... clergy ; vain - glorious , talkative , rapacious , lavish , and dissolute . He took all opportunities to fleece and enslave his English subjects , and at quietly home again ; and then they agreed , that 18 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... clergy ; vain - glorious , talkative , rapacious , lavish , and dissolute . He took all opportunities to fleece and enslave his English subjects , and at quietly home again ; and then they agreed , that 18 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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... subject ought to do , he employed it in opposition to his sovereign , and wished to have the clergy a rich and powerful ... subjects , he could not hurt a hair of the poor man's head : - : but , in former days , if a king 32 HISTORY OF ...
... subject ought to do , he employed it in opposition to his sovereign , and wished to have the clergy a rich and powerful ... subjects , he could not hurt a hair of the poor man's head : - : but , in former days , if a king 32 HISTORY OF ...
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... subjects , was the worst . His dominions , when they came to him by the death of his brother , were greater than any other English monarch ever possessed . But he lost , by his misconduct , the flourishing provinces of France , the ...
... subjects , was the worst . His dominions , when they came to him by the death of his brother , were greater than any other English monarch ever possessed . But he lost , by his misconduct , the flourishing provinces of France , the ...
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... subject . After the death of king John , in the year 1216 , his son Henry , a boy only nine years old , was the rightful king ; but , by the ill management of his father , the kingdom had got into the hands of the French king . Young ...
... subject . After the death of king John , in the year 1216 , his son Henry , a boy only nine years old , was the rightful king ; but , by the ill management of his father , the kingdom had got into the hands of the French king . Young ...
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... subject to him without any of the privileges belonging to a king . But this the Scottish nation did not at all approve of , and they tried all they could to deliver themselves from their subjection to the king of England . There was a ...
... subject to him without any of the privileges belonging to a king . But this the Scottish nation did not at all approve of , and they tried all they could to deliver themselves from their subjection to the king of England . There was a ...
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Página 90 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 89 - O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 90 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf 'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Página 185 - It will soon carry you a great way. It will carry you from earth to heaven, and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.
Página 184 - Mark, child! what I say: They will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: But mark what I say, thou must not be a king, as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them! And thy head too they will cut off at last! Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them!
Página 173 - I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow — this parliament, and yet they shall not see...
Página 149 - He expired at Greenwich, in the sixteenth year of his age, and the seventh of his reign.
Página 235 - Fabrice's arms, he never recovered. but expired about eleven o'clock the next morning, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and the thirteenth of his reign Questions for Examination, \ What was the conduct of the South Sea scheme ? 2 Explain the nature of it, 3.
Página 69 - Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace: Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king!
Página 134 - 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...