A child's history of EnglandChapman and Hall, 1874 |
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Seite 307 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," said Latimer at that awful moment, "and play the man ! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Seite 423 - ... during their lives and the life of the survivor of them; and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange...
Seite 407 - I am sorry for, as I wish it had been framed and glazed and hung up in some public place, as a monument of baseness for the scorn of mankind. Next, came the trial of Algernon Sidney, at which Jeffreys presided, like a great crimson toad, sweltering and swelling with rage. "I pray God, Mr. Sidney...
Seite 275 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Seite 20 - ... he seemed to think of nothing but his music, he was watchful of their tents, their arms, their discipline, everything that he desired to know. And right soon did this great king entertain them to a different tune; for, summoning all his true followers to meet him at an appointed place, where they received him with joyful shouts and tears, as the monarch whom many of them had given up for lost or dead, he put himself at their head, marched on the Danish camp, defeated the Danes with great slaughter,...
Seite 132 - The best that can be said of him is that he was not cruel. De Roches coming home again, after ten years, and being a novelty, the king begau to favour him, and to look coldly on Hubert.
Seite 329 - Essex House had been released by one of the earl's own friends; he had been promptly proclaimed a traitor in the city itself; and the streets were barricaded with carts, and guarded by soldiers.
Seite 278 - I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.
Seite 198 - I am come a little before my time ; but, with your good pleasure, I will show you the reason. Your people complain with some bitterness, that you have ruled them rigorously for two-and-twenty years. Now, if it please God, I will help you to govern them better in future." " Fair cousin," replied the abject King, " since it pleaseth you, it pleaseth me mightily.
Seite 215 - Agincourt ; and that, whatever quarrel might arise with France, England should never make peace without holding Normandy. Then, he laid down his head, and asked the attendant priests to chant the penitential psalms. Amid which solemn sounds, on the thirty-first of August, one thousand four hundred and twenty-two, in only the thirty-fourth year of his age and the tenth of his reign, King Henry the Fifth passed away. Slowly and mournfully they carried his embalmed body in a procession of...