Hume and Smollet's Celebrated History of England from Its First Settlement to the Year 1760: Accurately and Impartially Abridged, and a Continuation from that Period to the Coronation of George IV., July 19, 1821 ...Pratt, Oakley & Company, 1858 - 504 pagine |
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Pagina 9
... considerable part of the globe , approached its dissolution . Italy , and the centre of the empire , removed , during so many ages , from all concern in the wars , had entirely lost its military spirit , and were peopled by an enervated ...
... considerable part of the globe , approached its dissolution . Italy , and the centre of the empire , removed , during so many ages , from all concern in the wars , had entirely lost its military spirit , and were peopled by an enervated ...
Pagina 13
... considerable slaughter . The death of Egbert , whose prudence and valour had rendered him a terror to his enemies , revived the hopes of the Danes , and prompted them to new efforts . A. D. 838 Ethelwolf , the son and successor of ...
... considerable slaughter . The death of Egbert , whose prudence and valour had rendered him a terror to his enemies , revived the hopes of the Danes , and prompted them to new efforts . A. D. 838 Ethelwolf , the son and successor of ...
Pagina 16
... considerable of his friends , and sum- moned them to meet him with their followers at Brixton , on the borders of Selwood Forest . The English having experienced that submission only increased the insolence and rapacity of their ...
... considerable of his friends , and sum- moned them to meet him with their followers at Brixton , on the borders of Selwood Forest . The English having experienced that submission only increased the insolence and rapacity of their ...
Pagina 22
... considerable slaughter the Danes and Welsh . Athelstan was regarded as an able and active prince ; and the remarkable law which he enacted , that a merchant , who had made three long sea voyages , should be admitted to the rank of thane ...
... considerable slaughter the Danes and Welsh . Athelstan was regarded as an able and active prince ; and the remarkable law which he enacted , that a merchant , who had made three long sea voyages , should be admitted to the rank of thane ...
Pagina 36
... considerable slaughter . The artifice was repeated a se- cond time with the same success ; yet a great body of the English still maintained themselves in firm array , and seemed resolved to dispute the victory . Harold , however , was ...
... considerable slaughter . The artifice was repeated a se- cond time with the same success ; yet a great body of the English still maintained themselves in firm array , and seemed resolved to dispute the victory . Harold , however , was ...
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Pagina 229 - 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.
Pagina 315 - There is, sir, but one stage more, which though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. Consider, it will soon carry you a great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory." "I go," replied the king, "from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown; where no disturbance can have place.
Pagina 269 - He acknowledged twenty-eight articles; and was sentenced to pay a fine of forty thousand pounds, to be imprisoned in the Tower during the king's pleasure, to be for ever incapable of any office, place, or employment, and never again to sit in Parliament, or come within the verge of the court.
Pagina 43 - He died in the sixty-seventh year of his age, and the thirty-fifth of his reign ; leaving by will his daughter, Matilda, heir of all his dominions, without making any mention of her husband Geoffrey, who had given him several causes of displeasure.
Pagina 314 - On the fourth, the judges having examined some witnesses, by whom it was proved that the king had appeared in arms against the forces commissioned by the Parliament ; they pronounced sentence against him.
Pagina 396 - Fabrice's arms, he never recovered. but expired about eleven o'clock the next morning, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and the thirteenth of his reign Questions for Examination, \ What was the conduct of the South Sea scheme ? 2 Explain the nature of it, 3.
Pagina 98 - Return, said he, to my son, and tell him that I reserve the honour of the day to him : I am confident that he will show himself worthy of the honour of knighthood which I so lately conferred upon him : he will be able, without my assistance, to repel the enemy®.
Pagina 269 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Pagina 272 - No prince, so little enterprising and so inoffensive, was ever so much exposed to the opposite extremes of calumny and flattery, of satire and panegyric. And the factions, which began in his time, being still continued, have made his character be as much disputed to this day, as is commonly that of princes who are our contemporaries.
Pagina 131 - Armagnac ; but had not credit to effect his purpose. The cardinal and his friends had cast their eye on Margaret of Anjou, daughter of Regnier, titular king of Sicily, Naples, and Jerusalem, descended from the count of Anjou, brother of Charles V.