A Pictorial History of EnglandJ. H. Butler & Company, 1879 - 448 Seiten |
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... head into the window , and asked him to make something for him . St. Dunstan , soon finding out who it was , seized him by the nose with a pair of red - hot tongs , and held him there , whilst he bellowed most lustily . 10. These , and ...
... head into the window , and asked him to make something for him . St. Dunstan , soon finding out who it was , seized him by the nose with a pair of red - hot tongs , and held him there , whilst he bellowed most lustily . 10. These , and ...
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... head of the monastery , who was called the Abbot , or the Superior . 3. The old clergy were called Seculars ; and between the two bodies a furious contest at once arose , which agitated the whole kingdom , and finally produced a civil ...
... head of the monastery , who was called the Abbot , or the Superior . 3. The old clergy were called Seculars ; and between the two bodies a furious contest at once arose , which agitated the whole kingdom , and finally produced a civil ...
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... head of Edward . This poor young man behaved kindly and gently to everybody , and very liberally to his ambitious step - mother ; but this did not prevent her from contriving his death . 9. One day , when he was hunting near Corfe ...
... head of Edward . This poor young man behaved kindly and gently to everybody , and very liberally to his ambitious step - mother ; but this did not prevent her from contriving his death . 9. One day , when he was hunting near Corfe ...
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... head - dress was a square piece of linen , or silk , so put on as to conceal the hair and neck , and showing only the face . 5. Historians talk of their curls and crisping - pins ; but their pic- tures show us nothing but the face ...
... head - dress was a square piece of linen , or silk , so put on as to conceal the hair and neck , and showing only the face . 5. Historians talk of their curls and crisping - pins ; but their pic- tures show us nothing but the face ...
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... head , went forth to meet him , and offered him the vacant throne , which he , with a little pretended hesitation , accepted . He was crowned at Westminster , on Christmas day , 1066 , and thus was completed the Conquest of England , as ...
... head , went forth to meet him , and offered him the vacant throne , which he , with a little pretended hesitation , accepted . He was crowned at Westminster , on Christmas day , 1066 , and thus was completed the Conquest of England , as ...
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Seite 276 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 313 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and' not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar. His hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour.
Seite 320 - Mark, child! what I say: They will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: But mark what I say, thou must not be a king, as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them! And thy head too they will cut off at last! Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them!
Seite 342 - The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children...
Seite 12 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Seite 295 - Good Mr. Jowler, we pray you speak to the King (for he hears you every day, and so doth he not us) that it will please his Majesty to go back to London, for else the country will be undone ; all our provision is spent already, and we are not able to entertain him longer.
Seite 287 - King James was wont to be very earnest with the country gentlemen to go from London to their country houses. And sometimes he would say thus to them, "Gentlemen, at London you are like ships at sea, which show like nothing; but in your country villages you are like ships in a river, which look like great things.
Seite 243 - It was not till the end of this reign that any salads, carrots, turnips, or other edible roots, were produced in England. The little of these vegetables that was used was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders". Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose.
Seite 259 - Guilford, desired permission to see her ; but she refused her consent, and sent him word, that the tenderness of their parting would overcome the fortitude of both, and would too much unbend their minds from that constancy which their approaching end required of them.
Seite 242 - Ho! man: will they not suffer my bill to pass?" And laying his hand on Montague's head, who was then on his knees before him, "Get my bill passed by to-morrow, or else to-morrow this head of yours shall be off.