The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Band 2George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton & Company, 1863 |
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... charge of high treason against five of the commons - Pym , Hampden , Holles , Haselrig , and Bond , and against Lord Kimbolton . The house resisted the demand to deliver up the impeached members , but assured the king of the due ...
... charge of high treason against five of the commons - Pym , Hampden , Holles , Haselrig , and Bond , and against Lord Kimbolton . The house resisted the demand to deliver up the impeached members , but assured the king of the due ...
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... charge was ever more unjust . He made no pretensions indeed to scholarship , but he was neither insensible to its value nor indifferent to its claims upon his patronage . The man who , amidst all his attention to public affairs , and ...
... charge was ever more unjust . He made no pretensions indeed to scholarship , but he was neither insensible to its value nor indifferent to its claims upon his patronage . The man who , amidst all his attention to public affairs , and ...
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... charge is , however , not well - sustained , for what he did which deserves this character seems to have been in a great measure , if not wholly , justified by the violence of those irreconcileable parties which would have effectually ...
... charge is , however , not well - sustained , for what he did which deserves this character seems to have been in a great measure , if not wholly , justified by the violence of those irreconcileable parties which would have effectually ...
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... charge brought against him , and has been most suc- cessfully used by his adversaries to impart an air of sanguinary ... charges this treating with the king for his return , as a great crime , calling it a driving on a bargain for the ...
... charge brought against him , and has been most suc- cessfully used by his adversaries to impart an air of sanguinary ... charges this treating with the king for his return , as a great crime , calling it a driving on a bargain for the ...
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... charge of others , and totally removed from the observation of their parents . They were , in fact , boarded out ' in the families of different noblemen ; James's only care being to provide the infant heir - apparent with an expensive ...
... charge of others , and totally removed from the observation of their parents . They were , in fact , boarded out ' in the families of different noblemen ; James's only care being to provide the infant heir - apparent with an expensive ...
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Seite 390 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench 'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 8 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Seite 16 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 381 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Seite 8 - ... be pens and heads there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people,...
Seite 15 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 356 - I showed them others, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify ; And some said, Let them live ; some, Let them die, Some said, John print it ; others said, Not so : Some said, It might do good ; others said, No.
Seite 460 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Seite 461 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Seite 697 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.