The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 2George Godfrey Cunningham A. Fullarton & Company, 1863 - Great Britain |
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... queen's court , attended as it was by a retinue of priests , was too obvious an indication to leave any doubts in the minds of anxious protestants as to the policy by which the king's counsels would be governed . No event had produced a ...
... queen's court , attended as it was by a retinue of priests , was too obvious an indication to leave any doubts in the minds of anxious protestants as to the policy by which the king's counsels would be governed . No event had produced a ...
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... queen herself , the youthful Anne of Austria , and even indulged the hope that the guilty - feeling was reciprocal . But his conduct was marked ; his subsequent intention to visit the French capital was checked by a message from Louis ...
... queen herself , the youthful Anne of Austria , and even indulged the hope that the guilty - feeling was reciprocal . But his conduct was marked ; his subsequent intention to visit the French capital was checked by a message from Louis ...
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... queen of Scots , by Henry Lord Darnley , and great - grandson of Margaret , daughter of Henry VII . James left his Scottish capital on the 5th of April , 1603 , to take possession of the richer diadem which , without effort or merit on ...
... queen of Scots , by Henry Lord Darnley , and great - grandson of Margaret , daughter of Henry VII . James left his Scottish capital on the 5th of April , 1603 , to take possession of the richer diadem which , without effort or merit on ...
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... queen's ministers who proclaimed King James , and the first also who tendered his service to the new monarch , despite of Northumberland's opinion that habitual caution , and a kind of official decorum , would restrain him from ...
... queen's ministers who proclaimed King James , and the first also who tendered his service to the new monarch , despite of Northumberland's opinion that habitual caution , and a kind of official decorum , would restrain him from ...
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... queen lived habitually much apart . There was little in the temper and habits of either to promote their domestic happiness ; and their chil- dren were allowed to grow up under the entire charge of others , and totally removed from the ...
... queen lived habitually much apart . There was little in the temper and habits of either to promote their domestic happiness ; and their chil- dren were allowed to grow up under the entire charge of others , and totally removed from the ...
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Page 388 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench 'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 8 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 16 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 379 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 8 - ... be pens and heads there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people,...
Page 15 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 354 - I showed them others, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify ; And some said, Let them live ; some, Let them die, Some said, John print it ; others said, Not so : Some said, It might do good ; others said, No.
Page 458 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Page 460 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Page 695 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.