The history of England, by D. Hume, continued by T. Smollett, and to the 23rd year of the reign of queen Victoria by E. Farr and E.H. Nolan. 3 vols. [in 12 pt.].1859 |
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Seite 363 - 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 297 - This success emboldened the king to think more seriously of a French war ; but, while he was making preparations for that enterprise, he was seized with a distemper, of which he expired, in the forty-second year of his age and the twenty-third of his reign — a prince more splendid and showy than either prudent or virtuous ; brave, though cruel ; addicted to pleasure, though capable of activity in great emergencies...
Seite 346 - ... by some novelty, to excite the languid devotion of his audience. No regard will be paid to truth, morals, or decency, in the doctrines inculcated. Every tenet will be adopted that best suits the disorderly affections of the human frame.
Seite 270 - ... to the charge, and overpowered the English in their intrenchments. In the attack of another fort, she was wounded in the neck with...
Seite 271 - He passed by Troye, which opened its gates to him: Chalons imitated the example: Rheims sent him a deputation with its keys, before his approach to it: And he scarcely perceived, as he passed along, that he was marching through an enemy's country. The ceremony of his coronation was here performeds with the holy oil...
Seite 233 - June) in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and the fifty-first of his reign; and the people were then sensible, though too late, of the irreparable loss which they had sustained.
Seite 346 - Each ghostly practitioner, in order to render himself more precious and sacred in the eyes of his retainers, will inspire them with the most violent abhorrence of all other sects, and continually endeavour, by some novelty, to excite the languid devotion of his audience. No regard will be paid to truth, morals, or decency, in the doctrin'es inculcated.
Seite 388 - Henry was exerting this violence against the Protestants, he spared not the Catholics who denied his supremacy ; and a foreigner, at that time in England, had reason to say, that those who were against the pope were burned, and those who were for him were hanged b.
Seite 346 - It may naturally be thought, at first sight, that the ecclesiastics belong to the first class, and that their encouragement, as well as that of lawyers and physicians, may safely be entrusted to the liberality of individuals, who are attached to their doctrines, and who find benefit or consolation from their spiritual ministry and assistance.
Seite 241 - A few days after, they appeared in his presence, armed, and attended with armed followers ; and they accused by name the archbishop of York, the duke of Ireland, the earl of Suffolk, Sir Robert Tresilian, and Sir Nicholas Brembre, as public and dangerous enemies to the state.