Historical and Biographical Essays, Band 1

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J. Murray, 1858 - 469 Seiten

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Seite 317 - He was a strong man," so intimates Charles Harvey, who knew him: "in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope shone in him like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others.
Seite 5 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.
Seite 112 - We had sheathed our swords in each other's bowels,' says an eyewitness, ' had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it.
Seite 10 - Treatise on the Principle and Construction of Military Bridges, and the Passage of Rivers in Military Operations.
Seite 29 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Seite 73 - Service they please, for we hold it requisite that there should be throughout the whole realm a conformity to that order which the laws enjoin according to the Word of God.
Seite 272 - In this time, his house being within little more than ten miles of Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university, who found such an immenseness of wit, and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination...
Seite 316 - I perceive, your forces are not in a capacity for present release. Wherefore, whatever becomes of us, it will be well for you to get what forces you can together ; and the South to help what they can.
Seite 268 - I have eaten his bread, and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him; and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things which are against my conscience to preserve and defend : for I will deal freely with you, I have no reverence for the bishops, for whom this quarrel [subsists.]" It was not a time to dispute; and his affection to the church had never been suspected.
Seite 24 - History of Latin Christianity ; including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V.

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