Pictures of Old EnglandMacmillan and Company, 1861 - 457 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 73
Página 2
... characters , intimately connected with the celebrity and interest which this spot has claimed from the earliest ages in the pages of history . . The stranger , who in the present day is borne rapidly along the railway through the slopes ...
... characters , intimately connected with the celebrity and interest which this spot has claimed from the earliest ages in the pages of history . . The stranger , who in the present day is borne rapidly along the railway through the slopes ...
Página 4
... character which has clung to it to the present day . This Augustine , who was probably named after the great father of the Church - St . Augustine , Bishop of Hippo - Regius - was a monk of the monastery of St. Andrew , on the Cœlian ...
... character which has clung to it to the present day . This Augustine , who was probably named after the great father of the Church - St . Augustine , Bishop of Hippo - Regius - was a monk of the monastery of St. Andrew , on the Cœlian ...
Página 14
... character England , and the world at large , are indebted for the Magna Charta . The primate's sarco- phagus is on the south side of the building , where it projects through the wall far out into the churchyard , as if the dead had ...
... character England , and the world at large , are indebted for the Magna Charta . The primate's sarco- phagus is on the south side of the building , where it projects through the wall far out into the churchyard , as if the dead had ...
Página 15
... character of a martyr and a national saint . It would carry us too far beyond our limits were we here to repeat the often - told tale of this remarkable man's life , or were we even to enter into a discussion of the conflict in which he ...
... character of a martyr and a national saint . It would carry us too far beyond our limits were we here to repeat the often - told tale of this remarkable man's life , or were we even to enter into a discussion of the conflict in which he ...
Página 19
... character , within the venerable porphyry chair behind the altar , in which the archbishops were wont to receive consecration and homage , when the appearance of the knights stopped him ; and turning back , he encountered them in St ...
... character , within the venerable porphyry chair behind the altar , in which the archbishops were wont to receive consecration and homage , when the appearance of the knights stopped him ; and turning back , he encountered them in St ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
abbey adherents ancient appear Archbishop authorities barons became belonged Bishop Bohemia burghers Canterbury cathedral character Chaucer Christian Church civic classes clergy Cologne council Council of Constance court Crown 8vo dignity doctrines Duke Duke of Brabant Duke of Gloucester Earl ecclesiastical Edition Edward Edward III Emperor Empire endeavoured England English faith favour fcap foreign France Franciscans French German Gloucester Gower guilds hand Hanseatic Hanseatic League Henry Henry VI hitherto honour imperial John King knights land Lollards London Lord ment middle ages monarch monastery monastic monks moreover noble Norman occasion once origin Oxford Parliament party period person poet political Pope possessed prelates prince probably rank Reformation regard relations Richard Romans Rome royal Saxon scarcely secular secure Sigismund soon spirit Steelyard Teutonic knights Thomas Becket throne tion took towns trade Westminster Wiclif William the Conqueror
Pasajes populares
Página 5 - European History, Narrated in a Series of Historical Selections from the best Authorities. Edited and arranged by EM SEWELL and CM YONGE. First Series, crown 8vo. 6s. ; Second Series, 1088-1228, crown 8vo. 6s. Third Edition. " We know of scarcely anything," says the GUARDIAN, of this volume, "which is so likely to raise to a higher level the average standard of English education.
Página 8 - Stands alone as the one general history of the country, for the sake of which all others, if young and old are wise, will be speedily and surely set aside.
Página 6 - The book indeed is full of instruction and interest to students of all ages, and he must be a well-informed man indeed who will not rise from its perusal with clearer and more accurate ideas of a too much neglected portion of English history.
Página 19 - Wilson. — A MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Página 24 - Stephen (CE)— THE SERVICE OF THE POOR; Being an Inquiry into the Reasons for and against the Establishment of Religious Sisterhoods for Charitable Purposes. By CAROLINE EMILIA STEPHEN. Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d. "The ablest advocate of a better line of work in this direction that we have ever seen.
Página 18 - The result is a vivid picture of tropical life, which may be read with unflagging interest, and a sufficient account of his scientific conclusions to stimulate our appetite without wearying us by detail. In short, we may safely say that we have never read a more agreeable book of its kind.
Página 292 - Areopagitica: a speech to the Parliament of England, for the liberty of unlicensed printing; with prefatory remarks, copious notes, and excursive illustrations, by T.