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... his virtues and merits ; and , in the opinion 15 of wise men , even those virtues themselves were conceived to be rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition , than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment or nature .
... his virtues and merits ; and , in the opinion 15 of wise men , even those virtues themselves were conceived to be rather feigned and affected things to serve his ambition , than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment or nature .
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the enjoying of a kingdom : yet , as a wise and watchful King , he would not neglect any thing for his safety ; thinking nevertheless to perform all things now , rather as an exercise than as a labour . So he being truly informed ...
the enjoying of a kingdom : yet , as a wise and watchful King , he would not neglect any thing for his safety ; thinking nevertheless to perform all things now , rather as an exercise than as a labour . So he being truly informed ...
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Therefore we shall make our judgment upon 5 the things themselves , as they give light one to another , and , as we can , dig truth out of the mine . The King was green in his estate ; and , contrary to his own opinion and desert both ...
Therefore we shall make our judgment upon 5 the things themselves , as they give light one to another , and , as we can , dig truth out of the mine . The King was green in his estate ; and , contrary to his own opinion and desert both ...
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Wherefore through this neglect , upon the coming of 15 Simon with his pretended Plantagenet into Ireland , all things were prepared for revolt and sedition , almost as if they had been set and plotted beforehand .
Wherefore through this neglect , upon the coming of 15 Simon with his pretended Plantagenet into Ireland , all things were prepared for revolt and sedition , almost as if they had been set and plotted beforehand .
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... and that God had so 30 miraculously prospered the beginning thereof ; and making offer , that all things should be guided by her will and as the sovereign patroness and protectress of the Plantagenet prise , direction , enterprise .
... and that God had so 30 miraculously prospered the beginning thereof ; and making offer , that all things should be guided by her will and as the sovereign patroness and protectress of the Plantagenet prise , direction , enterprise .
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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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