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... army , its progress , Harfleur , the dauphin , council , 92 : Agincourt , 93 : the battle , the king's humanity , the results , 94 : returns to England , leaves again for France , Troyes , sir John Oldcastle , accidental coincidences ...
... army , its progress , Harfleur , the dauphin , council , 92 : Agincourt , 93 : the battle , the king's humanity , the results , 94 : returns to England , leaves again for France , Troyes , sir John Oldcastle , accidental coincidences ...
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... army , massacre at Glencoe , judges , plot , Act of Succession , national debt , 243 : coinage , triennial parliaments , Peter the Great ; names of note ; siege of Limerick , 244-5 : death and character , 240 . House of Stuart again ...
... army , massacre at Glencoe , judges , plot , Act of Succession , national debt , 243 : coinage , triennial parliaments , Peter the Great ; names of note ; siege of Limerick , 244-5 : death and character , 240 . House of Stuart again ...
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... army in Britain , in 306. He remodelled the civil government of Britain , and for fifty years after his death the internal tranquillity of the country became a source of blessing to the people . St. Alban , the first Christian martyr in ...
... army in Britain , in 306. He remodelled the civil government of Britain , and for fifty years after his death the internal tranquillity of the country became a source of blessing to the people . St. Alban , the first Christian martyr in ...
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... army under his command , and ventured against the Danes . Not being sufficiently con- fident in his forces , and having no trustworthy person to send to enquire into the strength of the Danish camp , he determined to go himself in the ...
... army under his command , and ventured against the Danes . Not being sufficiently con- fident in his forces , and having no trustworthy person to send to enquire into the strength of the Danish camp , he determined to go himself in the ...
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HENRY INCE. his subjects in Selwood Forest ; he then collected a large army , and falling unexpectedly upon the Danes , obtained a complete victory . Instead of murdering his prisoners , as was the custom of the time , he promised to ...
HENRY INCE. his subjects in Selwood Forest ; he then collected a large army , and falling unexpectedly upon the Danes , obtained a complete victory . Instead of murdering his prisoners , as was the custom of the time , he promised to ...
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Seite 163 - It was said I constrained not her faith, but willed her not as a king to rule, but as a subject to obey ; and that her example might breed too much inconvenience.
Seite 96 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into, Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Seite 163 - I had suffered her mass, in hope of her reconciliation, and how now being no hope, which I perceived by her letters, except I saw some short amendment, I could not bear it.
Seite 276 - I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.
Seite 52 - Tyrrel, impatient to show his dexterity, let fly an arrow at a stag which suddenly started before him. The arrow, glancing from a tree, struck the king in the breast, and instantly slew...
Seite 173 - And now I come to the great thing that troubleth my conscience more than any other thing that ever I said or did in my life, and that is, the setting abroad of writings contrary to the truth which here now I renounce and refuse as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and writ for fear of death, and to save my life...
Seite 139 - The hour of my death now approaching, I cannot choose but, out of the love I bear you, advise you of your soul's health, which you ought to prefer before all considerations of the world or flesh whatsoever : for which yet you have cast me into many calamities, and yourself into many troubles. — But I forgive you all, and pray God to do so likewise.
Seite 268 - The nations around us, sir, are already enslaved and have been enslaved by these very means: by means of their standing armies they have every one lost their liberties. It is indeed impossible that the liberties of the people can be preserved in any country where a numerous standing army is kept up.
Seite 217 - Westminster, while the court was sitting, and be whipped ; after whipping, be set upon the pillory a convenient time, and have one of his ears cut off, one side of his nose slit...
Seite xiv - Nothing in the early existence of Britain indicated the greatness which she was destined to attain. Her inhabitants, when first they became known to the Tyrian mariners, were little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands.