History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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Page viii
... called a philosophical ro- mance , and which describes an imaginary realm where the per- fection of which Plato only gave an augury in his " Republic , " was set forth as achieved . He also wrote several separate treatises intended to ...
... called a philosophical ro- mance , and which describes an imaginary realm where the per- fection of which Plato only gave an augury in his " Republic , " was set forth as achieved . He also wrote several separate treatises intended to ...
Page xv
... called not a parliament , as it seems , but , in accordance with a former precedent , a great Council as precursor of a parliament ( for the parliament proper did not meet till 17th October , 1491 ) , and to them he made his speech ...
... called not a parliament , as it seems , but , in accordance with a former precedent , a great Council as precursor of a parliament ( for the parliament proper did not meet till 17th October , 1491 ) , and to them he made his speech ...
Page xvi
... . It appeared that no better method could be adopted for explaining the language of our author , than this use of what may be called his own commentary on the work . CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE . Regnal Years of Henry VII . I. xvi INTRODUCTION .
... . It appeared that no better method could be adopted for explaining the language of our author , than this use of what may be called his own commentary on the work . CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE . Regnal Years of Henry VII . I. xvi INTRODUCTION .
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... called the conqueror , howsoever he used and exercised the power of a conqueror to reward his Nor- mans , yet he forbore to use that claim in the beginning , but 5 mixed it with a titulary pretence , grounded upon the will and ...
... called the conqueror , howsoever he used and exercised the power of a conqueror to reward his Nor- mans , yet he forbore to use that claim in the beginning , but 5 mixed it with a titulary pretence , grounded upon the will and ...
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... called the sweating sickness . This 20 disease had a swift course , both in the sick body , and in the time and period of the lasting thereof ; for they that were taken with it , upon four and twenty hours escaping , were thought almost ...
... called the sweating sickness . This 20 disease had a swift course , both in the sick body , and in the time and period of the lasting thereof ; for they that were taken with it , upon four and twenty hours escaping , were thought almost ...
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Page 270 - 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.