History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... became one of the judges of the Sheriff's Court . His History of the " Union of the Two Noble and Illustre families of Lancastre and Yorke " brings the plied him with material which he used in such wise X INTRODUCTION .
... became one of the judges of the Sheriff's Court . His History of the " Union of the Two Noble and Illustre families of Lancastre and Yorke " brings the plied him with material which he used in such wise X INTRODUCTION .
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... wise as best suited his purpose . He has also drawn some few matters from Sir Thomas More's1 " History of the Life and Death of King Edward V , and of the usurpation of Richard III . ” Bacon must also have made some use of the ...
... wise as best suited his purpose . He has also drawn some few matters from Sir Thomas More's1 " History of the Life and Death of King Edward V , and of the usurpation of Richard III . ” Bacon must also have made some use of the ...
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... wise man , and an excellent King ; and yet the times were rough , and full of 10 mutations , and rare accidents . And it is with times , as it is with ways : Some are more up - hill and down- hill , and some are more flat and plain ...
... wise man , and an excellent King ; and yet the times were rough , and full of 10 mutations , and rare accidents . And it is with times , as it is with ways : Some are more up - hill and down- hill , and some are more flat and plain ...
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... wise men , even those virtues themselves were conceived ' to be rather feigned and affected things to serve his am- bition , than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment or nature . And therefore it was noted by men of great under ...
... wise men , even those virtues themselves were conceived ' to be rather feigned and affected things to serve his am- bition , than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment or nature . And therefore it was noted by men of great under ...
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... wise and decent 25 respect to distribute his creations , some to honour his coro- nation , and some his parliament . • The coronation followed two days after , upon the thirtieth day of October , in the year of our Lord 1485 ; at which ...
... wise and decent 25 respect to distribute his creations , some to honour his coro- nation , and some his parliament . • The coronation followed two days after , upon the thirtieth day of October , in the year of our Lord 1485 ; at which ...
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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.