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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 77
Página 2
... justice had originally sprung from each man's personal action . There had been a time when every freeman was his own avenger . But even in the earliest forms of English society of which we catch traces this right of self - defence was ...
... justice had originally sprung from each man's personal action . There had been a time when every freeman was his own avenger . But even in the earliest forms of English society of which we catch traces this right of self - defence was ...
Página 3
... justice . Each kinsman was his kinsman's keeper , bound to protect him from wrong , to hinder him from wrong - doing , and to suffer with and pay for him , if wrong were done . So fully was this principle recognized that , even if any ...
... justice . Each kinsman was his kinsman's keeper , bound to protect him from wrong , to hinder him from wrong - doing , and to suffer with and pay for him , if wrong were done . So fully was this principle recognized that , even if any ...
Página 5
... justice for the great empire which has sprung from this little body of farmer - com- monwealths in Sleswick . The religion of the English was the same as that of the whole German family . Christianity , which had by this time brought ...
... justice for the great empire which has sprung from this little body of farmer - com- monwealths in Sleswick . The religion of the English was the same as that of the whole German family . Christianity , which had by this time brought ...
Página 17
... justice for national sin . Their ravage , terrible as it had been , was held to be almost at an end : in another century - so ran old prophecies - their last hold on the land would be shaken off . But of submission to , or even of ...
... justice for national sin . Their ravage , terrible as it had been , was held to be almost at an end : in another century - so ran old prophecies - their last hold on the land would be shaken off . But of submission to , or even of ...
Página 19
... justice- court , no kinsman to claim vengeance for his wrong . If a stranger slew him , his lord claimed the damages ; if guilty of wrong - doing , " his skin paid for him " under the lash . If he fled he might be chased like a strayed ...
... justice- court , no kinsman to claim vengeance for his wrong . If a stranger slew him , his lord claimed the damages ; if guilty of wrong - doing , " his skin paid for him " under the lash . If he fled he might be chased like a strayed ...
Términos y frases comunes
abbey Ælfred Angevins Archbishop army baronage barons battle became Bishop borough Britain Britons broke brought Cædmon Canterbury Charter Chronicle Church claim clergy conquerors conquest Council court Cromwell Crown Danelaw Danes death Duke Earl East Anglia ecclesiastical Ecgberht Edward England English fell feudal flung followed forced France French Friars gathered hands head Hengest Henry Henry's House of Lancaster John John of Gaunt justice Kent King King's kingdom knights labor land Lanfranc Lollard London lord marched Mercia monks nobles Norman Normandy Northumbria older once Oxford Papal Parliament passed peace Picts political Pope prelates Prince realm reform reign religious revival revolt Richard Rolls Series Rome rose royal scholars Scotland Scots seemed shire statute stood strife struggle summoned temper thegns throne tion town victory villeins Wales Welsh Wessex West-Saxons whole William Wolsey Wyclif
Pasajes populares
Página 408 - Knyghton, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 159 - And the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, as well by land as by water; furthermore we will and grant, that all other cities and boroughs, and towns and ports, shall have all their liberties and free customs.
Página 308 - Good people," cried the preacher, " things will never go well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we? On what grounds have they deserved it? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride?
Página 373 - The king started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for my " good cheer, but I may not endure to have my laws " broken in my sight; my attorney must speak with
Página 49 - Amid tears and farewells the day wore away to eventide. "There is yet one sentence unwritten, dear master," said the boy. "Write it quickly," bade the dying man. "It is finished now," said the little scribe at last.
Página 366 - ... and when I had advised me in this said book, I deliberated, and concluded to translate it into English, and forthwith took a pen and ink, and wrote a leaf or twain, which I oversaw again, to correct it; and when I saw the fair and strange terms therein, I doubted that it should not please some gentlemen, which late blamed me, saying, that in my translations, I had...
Página 200 - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom ; and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave ; and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood-anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
Página 366 - And certainly our language now used varieth far from that which was used and spoken when I was born...
Página 43 - ... day of my trouble. 17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing : for thou, O God, art my refuge, and my merciful God. PSALM 60. Deus, repulisti nos. OGod, thou hast cast us out, and scattered us abroad : thou hast also been displeased ; O turn thee unto us again.
Página 150 - Foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the fouler presence of John." The terrible verdict of the King's contemporaries has passed into the sober judgement of history.