The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688Phillips Sampson, 1854 |
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Seite 419 - No less than thirty thousand persons are said to have daily lived at his board In the different manors and castles which he possessed in England: the military men, allured by his munificence and hospitality, as well as by his bravery, were zealously attached to his interests: the people in general bore him an unlimited affection: his numerous retainers were more devoted to his will than to the prince or to the laws: and he was the greatest, as well as the last, of those mighty barons who formerly...
Seite 22 - Innocent exacted the revenues of all vacant benefices, the twentieth of all ecclesiastical revenues without exception ; the third of such as exceeded a hundred marks a year, and the half of such as were possessed by non-residents.
Seite 446 - While the Yorkists were advancing to the charge, there happened a great fall of snow, which, driving full in the faces of their enemies, blinded them; and this advantage was improved by a stratagem of Lord Falconberg's. That nobleman ordered some infantry to advance before the line, and, after having sent a volley of flight arrows (as they were called) amid the enemy, immediately to retire.
Seite 419 - King-maker, had distinguished himself by his gallantry in the field, by the hospitality of his table, by the magnificence, and still more by the generosity of his expense, and by the spirited and bold manner which attended him in all his actions. The undesigning frankness and openness of his character rendered his conquest over men's affections the more certain and infallible : his presents were regarded as sure testimonies of esteem and friendship, and his professions as the overflowings of his...
Seite 227 - Edward had chosen his station on the top of the hill ; and he surveyed in tranquillity the scene of action. When the messenger accosted him, his first question was, whether the prince were slain or wounded. On receiving an answer in the negative, " Return," said he, " to my son, and tell him that I reserve the...
Seite 224 - Crecy, and there determined to wait with tranquillity the shock of the enemy. He drew up his men on a gentle ascent, and divided them into three lines. The first was commanded by the young prince of Wales ; the second was conducted by the earls of Northampton and Arundel ; and the third, kept as a body of reserve, was headed by the king in person.
Seite 350 - It was the dying injunction of the late king to his son, not to allow the English to remain long in peace, which was apt to breed intestine commotions ; but to employ them in foreign expeditions, by which the prince might acquire honour; the nobility, in sharing his dangers, might attach themselves to his person ; and all the restless spirits find occupation for their inquietude.
Seite 283 - ... mankind from one common stock, their equal right to liberty and to all the goods of nature, the tyranny of artificial distinctions, and the abuses which had arisen from the degradation of the more considerable part of the species, and the...
Seite 236 - Edward's mistress, commonly supposed to be the countess of Salisbury, dropped her garter, and the king taking it up, observed some of the courtiers to smile, as if they thought that he had not obtained this favour merely by accident; upon which he called out, Honi soil qui mal y pense...
Seite 452 - The man, whose humanity and generous spirit had been obscured, not entirely lost, by his vicious course of life, was struck with the singularity of the event, was charmed with the confidence reposed in him ; and vowed not only to abstain from all injury against the princess, but to devote himself entirely to her service'.