History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... better ap- preciation of the sequence of events throughout the reign a table is appended of the principal events of the reign of Henry VII , ranged according to the regnal years of the king , which are so frequently alluded to in the ...
... better ap- preciation of the sequence of events throughout the reign a table is appended of the principal events of the reign of Henry VII , ranged according to the regnal years of the king , which are so frequently alluded to in the ...
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... full of 10 mutations , and rare accidents . And it is with times , as it is with ways : Some are more up - hill and down- hill , and some are more flat and plain ; and the one is better for the liver , and the other for I - 2.
... full of 10 mutations , and rare accidents . And it is with times , as it is with ways : Some are more up - hill and down- hill , and some are more flat and plain ; and the one is better for the liver , and the other for I - 2.
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Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) Joseph Rawson Lumby. is better for the liver , and the other for the writer . I have not flattered him , but took him to life as well as I could , sitting so far off , and having no better light . It is ...
Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) Joseph Rawson Lumby. is better for the liver , and the other for the writer . I have not flattered him , but took him to life as well as I could , sitting so far off , and having no better light . It is ...
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... better to extinguish envy and contradiction to his other purposes , yet was he resolved in himself not to proceed to the consummation thereof , till 10 his coronation and a parliament were past . The one , lest a joint coronation of ...
... better to extinguish envy and contradiction to his other purposes , yet was he resolved in himself not to proceed to the consummation thereof , till 10 his coronation and a parliament were past . The one , lest a joint coronation of ...
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... better security of his person , a band 5 of fifty archers , under a captain , to attend him , by the name of yeomen of his guard and yet , that it might be thought to be rather a matter of dignity , after the imitation of what he had ...
... better security of his person , a band 5 of fifty archers , under a captain , to attend him , by the name of yeomen of his guard and yet , that it might be thought to be rather a matter of dignity , after the imitation of what he had ...
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Page 272 - He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded. But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 221 - He was born at Pembroke castle, and lieth buried at Westminster, in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe, both for the chapel and for the sepulchre. So that he dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive in Richmond, or any of his palaces.
Page 155 - ... creation, as in St. George's Fields, where his own person had been encamped. And for matter of liberality, he did, by open edict, give the goods of all the prisoners unto those that had taken them; either to take them in kind, or compound for them, as they could. After matter of honour and liberality, followed matter of severity and execution. The lord Audley was led from Newgate to Tower-Hill, in a paper coat painted with his own arms; the arms reversed, the coat torn, and he at Tower-Hill beheaded.