Selections from the Sources of English History: Being a Supplement to Text-books of English History B.C. 55-A.D. 1832Charles William Colby Longmans, Green, & Company, 1899 - 325 páginas |
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Página xvii
... common sense , he .can estimate rightly the calibre of prominent authors about him . One cannot promise that technically his criticism will deserve very wide attention , but he will read with increased intelligence , and will be less ...
... common sense , he .can estimate rightly the calibre of prominent authors about him . One cannot promise that technically his criticism will deserve very wide attention , but he will read with increased intelligence , and will be less ...
Página xx
... common stumbling - block , imperfection of the re- cord . Besides the total loss of many eminent works and the mutilated state of others -- for instance the histories of Livy and Tacitus our knowledge of a whole period may depend on a ...
... common stumbling - block , imperfection of the re- cord . Besides the total loss of many eminent works and the mutilated state of others -- for instance the histories of Livy and Tacitus our knowledge of a whole period may depend on a ...
Página xxiv
... common definition a scholar either knows a thing or can at once find it out . He does not fulfil this second condition unless he cuts a wide swath in his reading and has studied the classi- fication of books with a view to ascertaining ...
... common definition a scholar either knows a thing or can at once find it out . He does not fulfil this second condition unless he cuts a wide swath in his reading and has studied the classi- fication of books with a view to ascertaining ...
Página xxxi
... common : they are entertaining . When the action has been crowded , or the event , though un- exciting , is of universal moment , the recital need not rely upon fine words . A simple style will suffice so long as it is un- marred by ...
... common : they are entertaining . When the action has been crowded , or the event , though un- exciting , is of universal moment , the recital need not rely upon fine words . A simple style will suffice so long as it is un- marred by ...
Página xxxii
... common news came their way , and by preserving it they have left us the possibility of judging them and their times . Sir T. D. Hardy points out that many a credulous story of saint or martyr abounds with local touches which are above ...
... common news came their way , and by preserving it they have left us the possibility of judging them and their times . Sir T. D. Hardy points out that many a credulous story of saint or martyr abounds with local touches which are above ...
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Página 153 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world...
Página 159 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England, too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Página 158 - My loving People, — We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Página 260 - It is the love of the people, it is their attachment to their Government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
Página 259 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly. This is the true act of navigation, which binds to you the commerce of the colonies, and through them secures to you the wealth of the world.
Página 42 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Página 206 - Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.
Página 74 - No free man shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized, or outlawed, or exiled, or any wise destroyed; nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, but by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. To none will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice.
Página 207 - Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the fire rage every way ; and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire...
Página 162 - And though you have had and may have many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have any that will love you better.