The World's Great Classics: A short history of the English people, by J.R. Green. History of civilization in Europe, by F.P.G. GuizotTimothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne Colonial Press, 1899 Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor. |
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Pasajes populares
Página 179 - making and maintenance of laws, and redress of grievances, which daily happen within this realm, are proper subjects and matter of council and debate in Parliament. And that in the handling and proceeding of those businesses every member of the House hath, and of right ought to have, freedom
Página 478 - than all the company, now sits without speaking, and with his eyes fixed for an hour together." The end was in fact near; and in the opening of 1742 the dwindling of his majority to three forced Walpole to resign.
Página 285 - Cromwell replied to the angry alarm of the Parliament, " knowing that if some issue were not put to this business it would occasion another winter's war. At Coventry he learnt Charles's position, and swept round by Evesham upon Worcester,
Página 190 - for redress of wrongs done to personal liberty. " We must vindicate our ancient liberties," said Sir Thomas Wentworth, in words soon to be remembered against himself: " we must reinforce the laws made by our ancestors. We must set such a stamp upon them, as no licentious spirit shall dare hereafter to invade them.
Página 206 - At the opening of his third Parliament Charles had hinted in ominous words that the continuance of Parliament at all depended on its compliance with his will. " If you do not your duty," said the King, " mine would then order me to use those other means which God has put into my hand.
Página 63 - vast but unfinished plan of the " History of the World," showed the widening of historic interest beyond the merely national bounds to which it had hitherto been confined. A far higher development of our literature sprang from the growing influence which Italy, as we have seen, was exerting, partly through
Página 153 - for a reform in the Liturgy, the dislike of " superstitious usages," of the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, the gift of the ring in marriage, the posture of kneeling at the Lord's Supper, was shared by a large number of the clergy and laity alike. At the opening of Elizabeth's reign almost all the higher
Página 305 - and Desborough at their head, placed their commands in Cromwell's hands. A petition from the officers to Parliament demanded the withdrawal of the proposal to restore the Monarchy, " in the name of the old cause for which they had bled." Cromwell at once anticipated the coming debate on this petition, a debate which might have led to an
Página 450 - favor of the war: by Robert Harley, who became Secretary of State, and Henry St. John, a man of splendid talents, who was named Secretary at War. The Duke's march into Germany, which pledged England to a struggle in the heart of the Continent, embittered the political strife. The high
Página 337 - Their very bearing was that of wild revolt against the Puritan past. To a staid observer, Roger Pepys, they seemed a following of " the most profane, swearing fellows that ever I heard in my life." The zeal of the Parliament at its outset, indeed, far outran that of Charles or his ministers. Though it