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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... poor observer , his memory may fail him when he is engaged in recalling the scene , his original mental picture may be overlaid by later and incorrect impressions . An unemotional person , such as the pro- fessed critic , is likely to ...
... poor observer , his memory may fail him when he is engaged in recalling the scene , his original mental picture may be overlaid by later and incorrect impressions . An unemotional person , such as the pro- fessed critic , is likely to ...
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... poor sources simply because they exist in profusion . Accordingly the reader will find among the following passages numerous examples of those sound and final authorities which have just been described . Constitutional history is always ...
... poor sources simply because they exist in profusion . Accordingly the reader will find among the following passages numerous examples of those sound and final authorities which have just been described . Constitutional history is always ...
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... poor , they lust for dominion ; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them . Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches . To robbery , slaughter , plunder , they give the lying name of empire ...
... poor , they lust for dominion ; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them . Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches . To robbery , slaughter , plunder , they give the lying name of empire ...
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... poor , but that all , high and low , rich or poor , shall enjoy alike impartial law ; from 1 Rudolf III . , last king of Burgundy . 2 A vestment which was regarded as the distinct badge of archiepisco- pal office , and which it was ...
... poor , but that all , high and low , rich or poor , shall enjoy alike impartial law ; from 1 Rudolf III . , last king of Burgundy . 2 A vestment which was regarded as the distinct badge of archiepisco- pal office , and which it was ...
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... poor , the meanness of whose fortune often re- strains them from overstepping the bounds of justice . I omit men of ecclesiastical rank , whom sometimes respect to their profession , and sometimes the fear of shame , suffer not to ...
... poor , the meanness of whose fortune often re- strains them from overstepping the bounds of justice . I omit men of ecclesiastical rank , whom sometimes respect to their profession , and sometimes the fear of shame , suffer not to ...
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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.