| Oliver Goldsmith - 1846 - 482 Seiten
...poleaxe ; although some assort that he was starved in prison. 15. Thus died the unfortunate Richard, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. Though his conduct was blameable, yet the punishment he suffeied was greater than his offences ; and... | |
| David Hume - 1848 - 628 Seiten
...the story, that his body was exposed in public, and that no marks of violence were observed upon it. He died in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. He left no posterity, either legitimate or illegitimate. All the writers who have transmitted to us... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1849 - 524 Seiten
...poleaxe ; although some assert that he was starved in prison. 1 5. Thus died the unfortunate Richard, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. Though his conduct was blameable, yet the punishment he suffered was greater than his offences ; and... | |
| David Hume - 1854 - 562 Seiten
...the story, that his body was exposed in public, and that no marks of violence were observed upon it. He died in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. He left no posterity, either legitimate or illegitimate. .. All the writers who have transmitted to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 394 Seiten
...although some assert that he was starved in prison. Thus died the imprudent and unfortunate Richard, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign, leaving neither son nor daughter to bewail his tragical end. Though his conduct was blarneable, yet the punishment... | |
| David Hume - 1858 - 566 Seiten
...death in prison, since his body was exposed in public, and no marks of violence were observed upon it. He died in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign ; and left no posterity, either legitimate or illegitimate. Richard appears to have been incapacitated... | |
| David Hume - 1858 - 552 Seiten
...the story, that his body was exposed in public, and that no marks of violence were observed upon it. He died in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. He left no posterity, either legitimate or illegitimate. All the writers who have transmitted to us... | |
| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1858 - 736 Seiten
...parliament confirmed his deposition (September 29, 1399), and he was soon after privately assassinated in the thirty-fourth year of his age and the twentythird of his reign. He left no posterity. Thus began the contentions between the houses of York and Lancaster. SECTION... | |
| Charles Clough - 1870 - 104 Seiten
...London, where he gave up the crown ; and afterwards confined in Pontefract Castle, where he was murdered, in the thirty-fourth year of his age and the twenty-third of his reign. 43. Richard II. was fond of show, and lived in grand style. There were in his whole household ten thousand... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1879 - 460 Seiten
...Richard was conveyed to Pontefract Castle, and there put to death in the beginning of the year 1400, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. He is called the last sovereign of the line of Plantagenet ; Henry and his successors being styled... | |
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