History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... thought and expression ; every sen- tence is replete with ideas enough for a sermon , and each expression is as polished as if the author had designed it to become a maxim . In 1605 appeared , in English , his two books , " Of the ...
... thought and expression ; every sen- tence is replete with ideas enough for a sermon , and each expression is as polished as if the author had designed it to become a maxim . In 1605 appeared , in English , his two books , " Of the ...
Page ix
... thought of such a work had been long before his mind . Mr Spedding has published in his edition of Bacon's works , ( Vol . VI . pp . 17 seqq . ) a fragment of such a history , of the existence of which Speed1 , whose history was ...
... thought of such a work had been long before his mind . Mr Spedding has published in his edition of Bacon's works , ( Vol . VI . pp . 17 seqq . ) a fragment of such a history , of the existence of which Speed1 , whose history was ...
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... thought generally , that he was a Prince , as ordained and sent down from heaven , to unite and put to an end the long dissensions of the two houses ; which although they had had , in the times of Henry the fourth , Henry the fifth ...
... thought generally , that he was a Prince , as ordained and sent down from heaven , to unite and put to an end the long dissensions of the two houses ; which although they had had , in the times of Henry the fourth , Henry the fifth ...
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... thought almost assured . And as to the time of the malice and reign of the disease , ere it ceased ; it began about the 25 one and twentieth of September , and cleared up before the end of October , insomuch as it was no hindrance to ...
... thought almost assured . And as to the time of the malice and reign of the disease , ere it ceased ; it began about the 25 one and twentieth of September , and cleared up before the end of October , insomuch as it was no hindrance to ...
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... thoughts , he did institute , for the 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 ...
... thoughts , he did institute , for the 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 ...
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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.