Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's Abridgment of the History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George II : with a Continuation to the Close of the Year 1830 : Also, a Dictionary, Biographical, Historical, &c., Explaining Every Difficulty and Rendering the Whole Easy to be Understood, and Questions for Examination at the End of Each Section, Besides a Variety of Valuable Information Added Throughout the Work, Consisting of Useful and Correct Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of England, from Egbert to William the Fourth, Tables of Contemporary Sovereigns and Eminent Persons, an Account of the Idols Worshipped by the Saxons, Remarks on the Politics, Manners, and Literature of the Age, an Outline of the Constitution, &c. &c. : the Whole Illustrated by Copious Explanatory Notes, a Classical and Modern Map of England and Wales, and Portraits of the Sovereigns

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Whittaker, Treacher, & Company, 1831 - 507 Seiten

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Seite 371 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th
Seite 246 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Seite 275 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Seite 183 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it.
Seite 158 - Kingston, 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 403 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Seite 222 - Pym, and Strode. The articles were, That they had traitorously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental laws and government of the kingdom, to deprive the king of his regal power, and to impose on his subjects an arbitrary and tyrannical authority...
Seite 158 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my service to God, but only to my prince.
Seite 275 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 349 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

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