The English Historical Review, Volumen28

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Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, Sir John Goronwy Edwards
Oxford University Press, 1913

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Página 118 - Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever ; but the matters which are to be established for the estate of our lord the King and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments, by our lord the King, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm ; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Página 442 - Wherefore it is our will, and we firmly enjoin, that the English Church be free, and that the men in our kingdom have and hold all the aforesaid liberties, rights, and concessions, well and...
Página 406 - The avowed pretension of the United States to put themselves at the head of the confederacy of all the Americas, and to sway that confederacy against Europe (Great Britain included), is not a pretension identified with our interests, or one that we can countenance or tolerate.
Página 340 - Peion's book has convinced us that M. Otto's application was grounded on false pretences, and that the passport was fraudulently obtained ; that there never was any intention to send these vessels on a voyage of discovery round the world, as stated by M. Otto, but that the sole object of it was to ascertain the real state of New Holland ; to discover what our colonists were doing, and what was left for the French to do, on this great continent, in the event of a peace ; to find some port in the neighbourhood...
Página 261 - How they fought in the attack of Madura, how they fought in the defence of Arcot, how they crossed bayonets, foot to foot, with the best French troops at Cuddalore,3 historians have delighted to tell. All the power and all the responsibility, all the honours and rewards were not then monopolised by the English Captains. Large bodies of troops were sometimes despatched on hazardous enterprises under the independent command of a native leader, and it was not thought an offence to a European soldier...
Página 250 - The Thoughts of a Member of the Lower House, in relation to a project for restraining and limiting the power of the Crown, in the future creation of Peers.
Página 27 - His herberwe and his mone, his lodemenage, Ther nas noon swich from Hulle to Cartage. Hardy he was, and wys to undertake; With many a tempest hadde his berd been shake. He knew wel alle the havenes, as they were, From Gootlond to the cape of Finistere, And every cryke in Britayne and in Spayne; His barge y-cleped was the Maudelayne.
Página 461 - ... and the story ends with the pious exclamation, " from which devill and all other devills defend us, good Lord ! Amen." We have spoken of the collections of tales, which, at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Página 609 - He arose to protect his own unwritten laws in order that his property, his self-respect, and his family might not be injured or destroyed. He resorted to physical violence under cover, in one of the most sinister and interesting contests of modern times. And in this contest for a very necessary supremacy many a foul crime was committed by white against black.
Página 35 - If you knew," Walsingham wrote, 'with what difficulty we retain what we have and that the seeking of more might hazard (according to man's understanding) that which we already have, you would then deal warily in this time when policy carrieth more sway than zeal.

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