England from the reign of Henry the Sixth to the Revolution of 1688

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Harper & Brothers, 1854
 

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Side 205 - You have an army in Ireland that you may employ to reduce this kingdom to obedience.
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 - Let Sir John Eliot's body be buried in the church of that parish where he died.
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 servant...
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 232 - 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 95 - I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.
Side 285 - Two of the last things he said were of a human sort, and your remembrance will give him the full benefit of them.
Side 223 - Well," said the King, smiling, as if he were pleased, "' I never before read such a commission ; but it is written in fair and legible characters. This is a company of as handsome proper gentlemen as I have seen a long while.
Side 303 - ... during their lives and the life of the survivor of them; and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange...

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