Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes3-4A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1860 |
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... hundred inches cubic measure , and 1 Memoirs of the Life and Administration of the Right Honourable Wil liam Cecil Lord Burghley , Secretary of State in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the ...
... hundred inches cubic measure , and 1 Memoirs of the Life and Administration of the Right Honourable Wil liam Cecil Lord Burghley , Secretary of State in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the ...
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... hundred and thirty years in Henry the Seventh's chapel . Yet her memory is still dear to the hearts of a free people . The truth seems to be that the government of the Tudors was , with a few occasional deviations , a popu- lar ...
... hundred and thirty years in Henry the Seventh's chapel . Yet her memory is still dear to the hearts of a free people . The truth seems to be that the government of the Tudors was , with a few occasional deviations , a popu- lar ...
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... hundred in any shire in England , which could not have overpowered the handful of armed men who composed her household . If a hostile sovereign threat- ened invasion , if an ambitious noble raised the standard of revolt , she could have ...
... hundred in any shire in England , which could not have overpowered the handful of armed men who composed her household . If a hostile sovereign threat- ened invasion , if an ambitious noble raised the standard of revolt , she could have ...
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... hundred years before the time of Luther , a great party in this kingdom was eager for change at least as extensive as that which was sub sequently effected by Henry the Eighth . The House of 26 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
... hundred years before the time of Luther , a great party in this kingdom was eager for change at least as extensive as that which was sub sequently effected by Henry the Eighth . The House of 26 BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES .
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... hundred and fifty years ! She had the happiest opportunity ever vouchsafed to any sovereign of establishing perfect freedom of conscience throughout her dominions , with- out danger to her government , without scandal to any large party ...
... hundred and fifty years ! She had the happiest opportunity ever vouchsafed to any sovereign of establishing perfect freedom of conscience throughout her dominions , with- out danger to her government , without scandal to any large party ...
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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.