Tales of Our Great Families, Volumen 2Hurst and Blackett, 1877 |
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... Charles , who had been present at the trial in Westminster Hall , and who was convinced that Lord Stafford was innocent of the imputed treason , yet signed his death - warrant , with no other mitigation than that he should be simply ...
... Charles , who had been present at the trial in Westminster Hall , and who was convinced that Lord Stafford was innocent of the imputed treason , yet signed his death - warrant , with no other mitigation than that he should be simply ...
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... Charles V. heard of his execution , he is reported to have exclaimed , " A butcher's dog has killed the finest buck in England . " The ducal title became extinct by its attainder ; and on the death of Henry , thirteenth Baron Stafford ...
... Charles V. heard of his execution , he is reported to have exclaimed , " A butcher's dog has killed the finest buck in England . " The ducal title became extinct by its attainder ; and on the death of Henry , thirteenth Baron Stafford ...
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... Charles ( we are told by another historian ) His Majesty declared that this luckless scion of a great race , having no part in the family inheritance , " nor any lands or means whatsoever , " should make a resignation of all his claims ...
... Charles ( we are told by another historian ) His Majesty declared that this luckless scion of a great race , having no part in the family inheritance , " nor any lands or means whatsoever , " should make a resignation of all his claims ...
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... Charles II . is responsible , inas- much as the first possessors of the titles of Richmond , Grafton , St. Albans , and Buccleuch were the sons of that sovereign by one or other of his many alliances , which I fear that I must scarcely ...
... Charles II . is responsible , inas- much as the first possessors of the titles of Richmond , Grafton , St. Albans , and Buccleuch were the sons of that sovereign by one or other of his many alliances , which I fear that I must scarcely ...
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... Charles , it would seem that similar honours , which have since become extinct , were bestowed by him at various times . on various favourites ; and the names of the Duchess of Cleveland , the Duchess of Ports- mouth , and Lady ...
... Charles , it would seem that similar honours , which have since become extinct , were bestowed by him at various times . on various favourites ; and the names of the Duchess of Cleveland , the Duchess of Ports- mouth , and Lady ...
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Página 226 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Página 247 - After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Página 26 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Página 108 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Página 27 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Página 51 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...