Readings in Medieval and Modern HistoryD. C. Heath & Company, 1917 - 388 sider |
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... forces into the Drontheim country ; and when he came to Mære , all among the chiefs of the Drontheim people who were most opposed to Christianity were assembled , and had with them all the great bonders1 who had before made sacrifice at ...
... forces into the Drontheim country ; and when he came to Mære , all among the chiefs of the Drontheim people who were most opposed to Christianity were assembled , and had with them all the great bonders1 who had before made sacrifice at ...
Side 74
... forces . No doubt the fates urged him on , as he neither summoned his troops , nor , had he been willing to do so , would he have found many ready to obey his call ; so hostile were all to him , because he had appropriated the northern ...
... forces . No doubt the fates urged him on , as he neither summoned his troops , nor , had he been willing to do so , would he have found many ready to obey his call ; so hostile were all to him , because he had appropriated the northern ...
Side 78
... force fails to succeed , ready to use stratagems or to corrupt by bribery . They live in large edifices with economy ; envy their superiors , wish to excel their equals , and plunder their subjects , though they defend them from others ...
... force fails to succeed , ready to use stratagems or to corrupt by bribery . They live in large edifices with economy ; envy their superiors , wish to excel their equals , and plunder their subjects , though they defend them from others ...
Side 84
... force of habit . For if he have authority in any office , he is too scornful , holding monks of no account , and being on familar terms with secular men , and if he be angry , he will scarce say a word willingly to any brother , even in ...
... force of habit . For if he have authority in any office , he is too scornful , holding monks of no account , and being on familar terms with secular men , and if he be angry , he will scarce say a word willingly to any brother , even in ...
Side 103
... force of Saracens rushed suddenly upon him to make him prisoner . The king , awakened by the noise , had hardly time to mount his horse , and his attendants were still getting on their horses also , when the enemy came upon them and ...
... force of Saracens rushed suddenly upon him to make him prisoner . The king , awakened by the noise , had hardly time to mount his horse , and his attendants were still getting on their horses also , when the enemy came upon them and ...
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Side 276 - Street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord, what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.
Side 50 - It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces in prayer towards the east and the west, but righteousness is of him who believeth in GOD and the last day, and the angels, and the scriptures, and the prophets...
Side 277 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Side 269 - Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee, for Thy people. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service...
Side 264 - He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for.
Side 271 - ... away from a miller and other company that took them for rogues ; his sitting at table at one place, where the master of the house, that had not seen him in eight years, did know him, but kept it private ; when at the same table there was one, that had been of his own regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but made him drink the King's health and said that the King was at least four fingers higher than he.
Side 260 - ... the want of custom. After he was confirmed and invested Protector by The humble petition and advice, he consulted with very few upon any action of importance, nor communicated any enterprise he resolved upon with more than those who were to have principal parts in the execution of it; nor to them sooner than was absolutely necessary.
Side 372 - RELIABLE information has been received by the German Government to the effect that French forces intend to march on the line of the Meuse by Givet and Namur.
Side 265 - 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...
Side 377 - We are now in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law. Our troops have occupied Luxemburg and perhaps are already on Belgian soil. Gentlemen, that is contrary to the dictates of international law. It is true that the French Government has declared at Brussels that France is willing to respect the neutrality of Belgium, as long as her opponent respects it.