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England from the reign of Henry the Sixth to the Revolution of 1688 Charles Dickens Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1854 |
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Side 131 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.
Side 199 - All this was like a very little King indeed, I think. And now, for twelve long years, steadily pursuing his design of setting himself up and putting the people down, the King called no Parliament ; but ruled without one. If twelve thousand volumes were written in his praise (as a good . many have...
Side 283 - Sidney," said this Chief Justice of a merry' reign, after passing sentence, "to work in you a temper fit to go to the other world, for I see you are not fit for this.
Side 232 - He also said to Colonel Hacker, " Take care that they do not put me to pain." He told the executioner, "I shall say but very short prayers, and then thrust out my hands," — as the sign to strike. He put his hair up under a white satin cap, which the bishop had carried, and said, " I have a good cause and a gracious God on my side.
Side 90 - The news of his death was quickly carried to the king, who was amusing himself with archery in the garden of the magnificent palace at Hampton Court, which that very Wolsey had presented to him. The greatest emotion his royal mind displayed at the loss of a...
Side 207 - In a postscript to the very same letter, he added, " If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.
Side 257 - ... that were reeking with the blood of the last; and the heads of the dead were drawn on sledges with the living to the place of suffering. Still, even so merry a monarch could not force one of these dying men to say that he was sorry for what he had done.
Side 285 - ... had once saved his body, and was now come to save his soul. The Merry Monarch lived through that night, and died before noon on the next day, which was Friday, the sixth. Two of the last things he said were of a human sort, and your remembrance will give him the full benefit of them. When the Queen sent to say she was too unwell to attend him and to ask his pardon, he said, 'Alas! poor woman, she beg my pardon! I beg hers with all my heart.