Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest, Band 1Bell, 1882 |
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Seite xii - Conqueror, occupies that most interesting and important period of our national chronology, from the death of the last monarch of the Anglo-Saxon line, Edward the Confessor, to the demise of the last sovereign of the royal house of Stuart, Queen Anne, and comprises therein thirty queens who have worn the crownmatrimonial, and four the regal diadem of this realm.
Seite xiv - Their sayings, their doings, their manners, their costume, will be found faithfully chronicled in this work, which also includes the most interesting of their letters. The hope that the ' Lives of the Queens of England ' might be regarded as a national work, honourable to the female character, and generally useful to society, has encouraged us to the completion of the task.
Seite 112 - Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Seite xvii - ... royal house of Stuart, Queen Anne, and comprises therein thirty queens who have worn the crownmatrimonial, and four the regal diadem of this realm. We have related the parentage of every queen, described her education, traced the influence of family connexions and national habits on her conduct, both public and private, and given a concise outline of the domestic, as well...
Seite 570 - I shall find grace before the tribunal of God. I name myself first of the six.' " When Eustace had done speaking, his fellow-citizens all rose up, and almost adored him, casting themselves on their knees, with tears and groans.
Seite 349 - John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine...
Seite 234 - ... day of October, in the forty-ninth year of his age, and the nineteenth of his reign. He was a prince of wonderful endowments, both in body and mind : in his person tall and graceful, of great strength as well as vigour: he had a large portion of...
Seite 114 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged Nurse! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others
Seite 586 - Soon after, the good lady made the sign of the cross on her breast, and having recommended to the king her youngest son Thomas, who was present, praying to God she gave up her spirit, which I firmly believe was caught by holy angels and carried to the glory of heaven, for she had never done any thing by thought or deed to endanger her soul.
Seite 3 - Another antient perquisite belonging to the queen consort, mentioned by all our old writers, and therefore only worthy notice, is this: that, on the taking of a whale on the coasts, which is a royal fish, it shall be divided between the king and queen: the head only being the king's property, and the tail of it the queen's. " De sturgione observetur, quod rex ilium hdbebit integrum: de balcna vero SH flit-it, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam (x).