Warrior, priest, & statesman; or, English heroes in the thirteenth centuryW. P. Nimmo, 1873 - 343 pagina's |
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Abbot afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury Archdeacon archiepiscopal arms attended authority barons Bishop of London Blauuw boys brother cardinals castle cathedral cause Chancellor character Charter Chronicle Church clergy clerks council court crown danger Dean Hook death declared dignity Earl ecclesiastical Edward Grim enemies English exclaimed excommunication favour Fitz-Stephen Fitzurse Folliot French King friends Gilbert Gloucester God's hands Henry Henry II Henry's Herbert of Bosham Holy honour horses interdict John John of Salisbury justice King of England King's kingdom knights land laws legates Leicester letter Lewes liberties lord the King Louis Matthew Paris monks nobles Normandy oath Papal peace person Philip Pontigny Pope popular prelates present priest Primate Prince Edward received refused reign replied Richard Robert Robert of Gloucester Roman Rome royal Salisbury says servants shrine Simon de Montfort spirit Stephen Langton summoned sword ther Thomas à Becket thou William Winchester
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Pagina 308 - It is to your ancestors, my lords, it is to the English barons, that we are indebted for the laws and constitution we possess. Their virtues were rude and uncultivated, but they were great and sincere. Their understandings were as little polished as their manners, but they had hearts to distinguish right from wrong; they had heads to distinguish truth from falsehood; they understood the rights of humanity, and they had spirit to maintain them.
Pagina 239 - Roger de Hoveden to that of Matthew Paris, from the second Henry to the third, and judge whether the victorious struggle had not excited an energy of public spirit to which the nation was before a stranger. The strong man, in the sublime language of Milton, was aroused from sleep, and shook his invincible locks.
Pagina 180 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Pagina 181 - In all the parish wif ne was ther non, That to the offring before hire shulde gon, And if ther did, certain so wroth was she, That she was out of alle charitee.
Pagina 179 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.
Pagina 239 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Pagina 236 - The constitution of England has indeed no single date from which its duration is to be reckoned. The institutions of positive law, the far more important changes which time has wrought in the order of society during six hundred years subsequent to the Great Charter, have undoubtedly lessened its direct application to our present circumstances. But it is still the key-stone of English liberty.
Pagina 236 - Thou, who the verdant plain dost traverse here, While Thames among his willows from thy view Retires; O stranger, stay thee, and the scene Around contemplate well. This is the place Where England's ancient barons, clad in arms And stern with conquest, from their tyrant king (Then render'd tame) did challenge and secure The charter of thy freedom.
Pagina 185 - Becket,' and that his images and pictures throughout the whole realm shall be put down and avoided out of all churches and chapels, and other places; and that from henceforth the days used to be festivals in his name, shall not be observed — nor the service, office, antiphonies, collects and prayers in his name read, but rased and put out of all books.