Historical Particulars Relating to SouthamptonBaker, 1820 - 111 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Historical Particulars Relating to Southampton (Classic Reprint) John Bullar Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterward Alexander Ross amiable ampton ancient appears apud Bree army Ascupart Averni Batt bishop Bree's Sketch burgesses Canute castle Catherine Parr Charles Christ church corporation of Southampton court customs Danes death duke earl of Southampton Edmund Ironside Edward Edward VI Elizabeth embarked England Englefield's Walk English Essex fair fleet France French gate Granger's Biog Henry II Henry VIII Hist Holy Rood inhabitants Isle of Wight John Strawnge Josyan king king's kingdom landed at Southampton late letter London lord Magna Britannia,-Hampshire mayor merchants minister Netley noble parish parliament person poets port Portsmouth prince printed prison queen reign residence Richard Richard Cromwell romance Ross Salic law scot and lot ships Sir Bevis Sir H Sir Thomas South Star Chamber Sternhold tion town of Southampton trade treason troops tyme verses Walk through Southampton Winchester wine Wriothesly zour
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 105 - Abney, who received him into his house; where, with a constancy of friendship and uniformity of conduct not often to be found, he was treated for thirty-six years with all the kindness that friendship could prompt, and all the attention that respect could dictate.
Seite 106 - Every man acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another making a catechism for children in their fourth year.
Seite 106 - Few men have left behind such purity of character, or such monuments of laborious piety. He has provided instruction for all ages, from those who are lisping their first lessons, to the enlightened readers of Malbranche and Locke ; he has left neither corporeal nor spiritual nature unexamined ; he has taught the Art of Reasoning, and the Science of the Stars.
Seite 106 - Malbranche and Locke ; he has left neither corporeal nor spiritual nature unexamined ; he has taught the Art of Reasoning, and the Science of the Stars. His character, therefore, must be formed from the multiplicity and diversity of his attainments^ rather than from any single performance ; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest rank in any single denomination of literary dignity ; yet perhaps there was nothing in which he would not have excelled, if he had wot divided his powers to...
Seite 7 - He feigned to sit some time in expectation of their submission; but when the sea still advanced towards him, and began to wash him with its billows, he turned to his courtiers, and remarked to them, that every creature in the universe was feeble and impotent, and that power resided with one Being alone, in whose hands were all the elements of nature, who could say to the ocean, THUS FAR SHALT THOU GO, AND NO FARTHER; and who could level with his nod the most towering piles of human pride and ambition.
Seite 65 - Upon which that magistrate, who was otherwise a person of merit, but intoxicated with religious zeal, put his own hand to the rack, and drew it so violently that he almost tore her body asunder. Her constancy still surpassed the barbarity of her persecutors, and they found all their efforts to be baffled.
Seite 66 - ... subject, was frequently engaged in the argument ; and being secretly inclined to the principles of the reformers, she unwarily betrayed too much of her mind on these occasions. Henry, highly provoked that she should presume to differ from him, complained of her obstinacy to Gardiner, who gladly laid hold of the opportunity to inflame the quarrel. He praised the king's anxious...
Seite 89 - Medici was no sooner published than it excited the attention of the publick, by the novelty of paradoxes, the dignity of sentiment, the quick succession of images, the multitude of abstruse allusions, the subtilty of disquisition, and the strength of language.
Seite 35 - Rose, without their savageness — studious in the intervals of business — and devout after the manner of those whimsical times, when men challenged others whom they never saw, and went barefoot to visit shrines in countries of which they had scarce a map.
Seite 26 - Earl of Cambridge, Lord Scrope of Masham and Sir Thomas Grey of Heton.