History of France: From the Earliest Period to the Present Date, Bände 1-2

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Whittaker, 1845
 

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Seite 145 - the Psalmist —" This is my rest for ever, here will I dwell, for I have desired it !" Being overheard by a monk, who put the abbot on his guard, the latter invited him to attend a chapter of the house, and then inquired into his intentions. " By the grace of God,
Seite 174 - My pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious.
Seite 145 - meaner sort to swear on a shrine in which he had placed an egg. Oh ! how exactly do the words of the prophet apply to this holy man— ' Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle, or who shall rest upon thy holy hill t Even he, that leadeth an uncorrupt life,
Seite 167 - I will bring thy seed from the East, and gather thee from the West.' God has brought your children from the East, since this country of the East
Seite 161 - of boars. So much he loved the high-deer, as if he had been their father. He also decreed about hares, that they should go free. His rich men moaned, and the poor men murmured ; but he was so hard, that he recked not the hatred of them all. For it was need they should follow
Seite 135 - dans un genre seul j'avais usé mes jours ; Mais quoi.' je suis volage, en vers comme en amours." (I am a trifling thing, and fly to whatever takes my fancy, from flower to flower, from object to object,
Seite 311 - Let the forfeit be nominated for an equal pound of your fair flesh, to be cut and taken, in what part of your body pleaseth
Seite 290 - Unarm'd he issues, saving with that lance Which the arch-traitor tilted with ; and that He carries with so home a thrust, as rives The bowels of poor Florence I see the other < (who a prisoner late Had stept on shore) exposing to the mart His daughter, whom he bargains for, as do The Corsairs for their slaves
Seite 345 - en lieu de servitudes et de diverses conditions, qui moult nous desplaît : Nous considérants que nostre royaume est dit, et nommé le royaume des Francs, et voulants que la chose en vérité soit accordant au nom, et que la condition des gents amende de nous
Seite 367 - as the English did. Upon this the count of Alençon exclaimed, "This is what one gets by employing such scoundrels, who fall off when there is any need for them." The. Genoese could not do much, the English riddled them so with arrows, and

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