A New History of Great Britain: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time ...C. Law, 1803 - 455 pagina's |
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Pagina 51
... marched with them in folemn proceflion to a new place of burial , and there paid the military honours to the deceafed by difcharg- ing their mufkets over his grave * . Many of the northern tribes excluded women from their future ...
... marched with them in folemn proceflion to a new place of burial , and there paid the military honours to the deceafed by difcharg- ing their mufkets over his grave * . Many of the northern tribes excluded women from their future ...
Pagina 97
... marches to London . His approach increafed the general alarm , and the divifions already prevalent in the English councils . The fuperior clergy , of whom the majority were his own countrymen , began to declare in his favour ; and the ...
... marches to London . His approach increafed the general alarm , and the divifions already prevalent in the English councils . The fuperior clergy , of whom the majority were his own countrymen , began to declare in his favour ; and the ...
Pagina 163
... marched towards Shrewsbury , in order to join his forces with thofe of Glendour . The king had fortunately a fmall army on foot , with which he inftantly hurried away , and ap proached Percy , near Shrewsbury , before he was joined by ...
... marched towards Shrewsbury , in order to join his forces with thofe of Glendour . The king had fortunately a fmall army on foot , with which he inftantly hurried away , and ap proached Percy , near Shrewsbury , before he was joined by ...
Pagina 175
... marched . from London to attack him ; and being joined the night before the battle , by his brother Clarence , who , upon this occafion , ungenerously deferted his father in law , victory declared in his favour . The earl , after having ...
... marched . from London to attack him ; and being joined the night before the battle , by his brother Clarence , who , upon this occafion , ungenerously deferted his father in law , victory declared in his favour . The earl , after having ...
Pagina 201
... marched towards London , in order to deliver a petition to the king for a redrefs of grievances . When they reached Wells , they were joined by lord Audley , a nobleman of an ancient family , and popular in his deportment ; but vain ...
... marched towards London , in order to deliver a petition to the king for a redrefs of grievances . When they reached Wells , they were joined by lord Audley , a nobleman of an ancient family , and popular in his deportment ; but vain ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 376 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month; and Gay A week ; and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry I'm sorry; but we all must die.
Pagina 390 - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity.
Pagina 254 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Pagina 394 - I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Pagina 400 - ... collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Pagina 270 - 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.
Pagina 379 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friends lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the "Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.
Pagina 124 - Lever a cinq, diner a neuf, Souper a cinq, coucher a neuf, Fait vivre d'ans nonante et neuf.
Pagina 153 - ... a coat, one half white, and the other half black or blue ; a long beard ; a silk hood buttoned under his chin, embroidered with grotesque figures of animals, dancing men, &c.
Pagina 370 - I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson.