The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution in 1688, Volume 4

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Page 523 - words: My loving people, we have been persuaded by some, that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving
Page 94 - a message, that the tenderness of their parting would overcome the fortitude of both, and would too much unbend their minds from that constancy which their approaching end required of them: Their separation, she said, would be only for a moment', and they would soon rejoin each other in a scene where
Page 513 - from Tree or Wood) into pewter, and wooden spoons into silver or tin. For so common were all sorts of treene vessels in old time, that a man should hardly find four pieces of pewter, (of which one was peradventure a salt) in a good farmer's house. Description of Britain,
Page 509 - ascendant over her. In her family, in her court, in her kingdom, she remained equally mistress : The force of the tender passions was great over her, but the force of her mind was still superior; and the combat which her victory visibly cost her, serves only to
Page 513 - but each made his fire against a reredosse in the hall where he dined and dressed his meat. The second is the great amendment of lodging: For, said they, our fathers, and we ourselves, have lain full oft upon straw pallettes covered only with a sheet under coverlets made of
Page 514 - are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great
Page 138 - 37. Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it. the
Page 528 - to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but " my daily industry. Neither from my person nor my nature doth " this choice arise: For he that supplieth this place ought to be " a man big and comely, stately and well spoken, his voice great, " his carriage majestical, his nature haughty, and his purse
Page 94 - to defend her religion by all the topics then in use, but also to write a letter to her sister* in the Greek language; in which, besides sending her a copy of the scriptures in that tongue, she exhorted her to maintain, in every fortune, a like steady perseverance.
Page 523 - Let tyrants fear: I have always so behaved myself, that under God, 1 have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects.

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