History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... lived in youth and with which a long period of his parliamentary life had also been connected . In 1620 he presented to the king his " Novum Organum , ” a work ( a fragment only of his great design ) on which he had been engaged , in ...
... lived in youth and with which a long period of his parliamentary life had also been connected . In 1620 he presented to the king his " Novum Organum , ” a work ( a fragment only of his great design ) on which he had been engaged , in ...
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... lived with him , for she died before him , he shewed himself no very indulgent hus- band towards her , though she was beautiful , gentle , and 25 fruitful . But his aversion towards the house of York was so predominant in him , as it ...
... lived with him , for she died before him , he shewed himself no very indulgent hus- band towards her , though she was beautiful , gentle , and 25 fruitful . But his aversion towards the house of York was so predominant in him , as it ...
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... lived in Oxford , and had to his pupil a baker's son , named Lambert Simnell , of the age of some fifteen years , a comely youth , and well favoured , not without some extraordinary dignity , and grace of aspect . It came into this ...
... lived in Oxford , and had to his pupil a baker's son , named Lambert Simnell , of the age of some fifteen years , a comely youth , and well favoured , not without some extraordinary dignity , and grace of aspect . It came into this ...
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... lived to see her brother beheaded , and her two sons deposed from the crown , bastarded in their blood , and 15 cruelly murdered . All this while nevertheless she enjoyed her liberty , state , and fortunes : but afterwards again , upon ...
... lived to see her brother beheaded , and her two sons deposed from the crown , bastarded in their blood , and 15 cruelly murdered . All this while nevertheless she enjoyed her liberty , state , and fortunes : but afterwards again , upon ...
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... lived long after in a cave or vault . The number that was slain in the field , was of the enemy's part four thousand at the least ; and of the King's part , one half of his van - guard , besides many hurt , but none of name . There were ...
... lived long after in a cave or vault . The number that was slain in the field , was of the enemy's part four thousand at the least ; and of the King's part , one half of his van - guard , besides many hurt , but none of name . There were ...
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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.