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He on the other side with great wisdom , not ignorant of the affections and fears of
the people , to disperse the conceit and terror of a conquest , had given order ,
that there 5 should be nothing in his journey like unto a warlike march or manner
...
He on the other side with great wisdom , not ignorant of the affections and fears of
the people , to disperse the conceit and terror of a conquest , had given order ,
that there 5 should be nothing in his journey like unto a warlike march or manner
...
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About this time in autumn , towards the end of September , there began and
reigned in the city , and other parts of the kingdom , a disease then new : which
by the accidents and manner thereof they called the sweating sickness . This 20 ...
About this time in autumn , towards the end of September , there began and
reigned in the city , and other parts of the kingdom , a disease then new : which
by the accidents and manner thereof they called the sweating sickness . This 20 ...
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... 5 warm , with temperate cordials , whereby nature ' s work were neither irritated
by heat , nor turned back by cold , he commonly recovered . But infinite persons
died suddenly of it , before the manner of the cure and attendance was known .
... 5 warm , with temperate cordials , whereby nature ' s work were neither irritated
by heat , nor turned back by cold , he commonly recovered . But infinite persons
died suddenly of it , before the manner of the cure and attendance was known .
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... ill armed , but well assured , being taken some few out of his own train , and the
rest out of the tenants and followers of such as were safe to be trusted , under the
conduct of the duke of Bedford . And as his manner was 20 HISTORY OF KING ...
... ill armed , but well assured , being taken some few out of his own train , and the
rest out of the tenants and followers of such as were safe to be trusted , under the
conduct of the duke of Bedford . And as his manner was 20 HISTORY OF KING ...
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And as his manner was to send his pardons rather before the sword than after ,
he gave commission to the duke to proclaim pardon to all that would come in :
which the duke , upon his approach to the lord Lovel ' s camp , did perform .
And as his manner was to send his pardons rather before the sword than after ,
he gave commission to the duke to proclaim pardon to all that would come in :
which the duke , upon his approach to the lord Lovel ' s camp , did perform .
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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.
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| Title | History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby Pitt press series |
| Author | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) |
| Editor | Joseph Rawson Lumby |
| Published | 1876 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2006 |
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