John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Volume 3John Frederick Smith W. Kent and Company, 1859 |
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Page 391 - We have short time to stay, as you ; We have as short a spring, As quick a growth to meet decay, As you or anything.
Page 393 - ... only strong for disputations and contentions, but barren of the production of works for the benefit of the life of man; in which mind he continued to his dying day.
Page 329 - For shame," said he to the parliament, "get you gone; give place to honester men; to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust. You are no longer a parliament : I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you : he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work.
Page 256 - Sir, this is none other but the hand of God; and to Him alone belongs the glory, wherein none are to share with Him.
Page 136 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 312 - I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town: and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men...
Page 390 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die, because a woman's fair ? Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be...
Page 262 - They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not...
Page 213 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation...
Page 303 - Mark, child, what I say, they will cut off my head, and perhaps make thee a king ; but mark what I say, you must not be a king so long as your brothers Charles and James do live ; for they will cut off your brothers' heads (when they can catch them), and cut off thy head too at last ; and, therefore, I charge you do not be made a king by them.