Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes3-4A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1860 |
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... army . The authority of Elizabeth rested solely on the support of her people . Those who say that her power was absolute do not sufficiently consider in what her power consisted . Her power consisted in the willing obedi- ence of her ...
... army . The authority of Elizabeth rested solely on the support of her people . Those who say that her power was absolute do not sufficiently consider in what her power consisted . Her power consisted in the willing obedi- ence of her ...
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... army which could , by its superior arms and its superior skill , overawe or vanquish the sturdy Commons of his realm , abounding in the native hardihood of English- men , and trained in the simple discipline of the militia . The It has ...
... army which could , by its superior arms and its superior skill , overawe or vanquish the sturdy Commons of his realm , abounding in the native hardihood of English- men , and trained in the simple discipline of the militia . The It has ...
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... army . They would have found it as dangerous to grind their subjects with cruel taxation as Nero would have found it to leave his prætorians unpaid . Those who imme- diately surrounded the royal person , and engaged in the hazardous ...
... army . They would have found it as dangerous to grind their subjects with cruel taxation as Nero would have found it to leave his prætorians unpaid . Those who imme- diately surrounded the royal person , and engaged in the hazardous ...
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... army , and whose power rests solely on the loyalty of his subjects , can continue for years to persecute a religion to which the majority of his subjects are sincerely attached . In fact , the Protestants did rise up against one sister ...
... army , and whose power rests solely on the loyalty of his subjects , can continue for years to persecute a religion to which the majority of his subjects are sincerely attached . In fact , the Protestants did rise up against one sister ...
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... army , provinces turned into deserts by misgovernment and persecution , factions dividing the court , a schism raging in the church , an immense debt , an empty treasury , im- measurable palaces , an innumerable household , ines ...
... army , provinces turned into deserts by misgovernment and persecution , factions dividing the court , a schism raging in the church , an immense debt , an empty treasury , im- measurable palaces , an innumerable household , ines ...
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Página 433 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 291 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 487 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 486 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Página 290 - The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.
Página 486 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 86 - The valour, the intelligence, the energy which, at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century...
Página 358 - ... suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 223 - Nothing in history or fiction, not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his bloody lips on the scalp of his murderer, approaches the horrors which were recounted by the few survivors of that night.
Página 385 - ... a price; that it had power to reconcile him to those whom he had most offended and provoked ; and continued to his age with that rare felicity, that his company was acceptable where his spirit was odious ; and he was at least pitied where he was most detested.