The History of England: The history of England: middle ages. In five volumes

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Longman, Orme, Brown and Green, and Longman, 1839
 

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Seite 127 - O Israel, Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; . and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Seite 127 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south. Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth...
Seite 188 - Lord of earth and air! O king! O father! hear my humble prayer: Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more: If Greece must perish, we thy will obey, But let us perish in the face of day!
Seite 242 - ... it were done in despite of us. If I were to take his conduct for my example, I ought to do the like to you ; for you have done me more harm in Brittany than any other; but I shall endure it, and let him act according to his own will.
Seite 500 - And as you desire the welfare of the King our sovereign lord, and of his realms of England and France, your own health, and ours also, so haste you hither. For by my troth, if you tarry we shall put this land in adventure with a field. 1" Such a brother you have here, God make him a good man.
Seite 206 - They advanced in regular order to their ground, each lord under his banner and pennon, and in the centre of his men.
Seite 126 - They have survived, having borne their wrongs with exemplary patience and resignation. Suppose the result of these bitter persecutions had been to make the Jews a degraded race — suppose " the iron had entered into their souls " ; suppose they had been so bowed down, as to have become...
Seite 320 - ... in common, but the bed. I permitted this to be done for three days; but, on the fourth, I ordered the tables to be laid and covered properly, placing the four kings at an upper table, the minstrels at another below, and the servants lower still. They looked at each other and refused to eat, saying I had deprived them of their old custom in which they had been brought up.
Seite 213 - England, served up the first course, and waited on their guests. At the second course, they went and seated themselves at another table, where they were served and attended on very quietly. When supper was over, and the tables removed, the king remained in the hall, among the English and French knights, bareheaded, except a chaplet of fine pearls, which was round his head.
Seite 319 - I never saw hare, deer, sheep, or any other animal, I declare to you for a certainty, run with such speed as it did. In his right hand he bore a great long dart, which he cast with much skill.

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