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Side 21
... King and removable at his pleasure . The local affairs were under a council in the colony , nominated by the council in England , with power of veto of any appointment reserved to the King . It is obvious that , although the charter ...
... King and removable at his pleasure . The local affairs were under a council in the colony , nominated by the council in England , with power of veto of any appointment reserved to the King . It is obvious that , although the charter ...
Side 23
... King , desirous of contracting for the whole crop of tobacco raised in Virginia decided that an assembly should be convened to consider his proposal . It was convened and it rejected the offer . Under the commonwealth the assembly was ...
... King , desirous of contracting for the whole crop of tobacco raised in Virginia decided that an assembly should be convened to consider his proposal . It was convened and it rejected the offer . Under the commonwealth the assembly was ...
Side 26
... king claimed to trace his descent from Wodin , it would appear certain that some record of the later stages of this mythical genealogy would be carefully preserved . Objections indeed against the existence of Hengist and Horsa based ...
... king claimed to trace his descent from Wodin , it would appear certain that some record of the later stages of this mythical genealogy would be carefully preserved . Objections indeed against the existence of Hengist and Horsa based ...
Side 29
... King , as in fact he was exercising the kingly office . Some of the king- doms thus created were of course more , and some less stably constituted ; —our present business is to see what position amongst them was held by Mercia . The ...
... King , as in fact he was exercising the kingly office . Some of the king- doms thus created were of course more , and some less stably constituted ; —our present business is to see what position amongst them was held by Mercia . The ...
Side 31
... King of a people to whom conflict was not only one of the conditions , but one of the pleasures of existence , Penda himself appears as the embodiment of that fierce and warlike spirit of which the religion he and his professed , was ...
... King of a people to whom conflict was not only one of the conditions , but one of the pleasures of existence , Penda himself appears as the embodiment of that fierce and warlike spirit of which the religion he and his professed , was ...
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ancient Annals Archbishop army Athenry Athens battle became Birmingham Bremen called castle cause century character Charles chief Christian chronicler Church City common Connaught conquest Cromwell death Dermot doctrine doubt Dublin Earl ecclesiastical Edward II Emperor Empire enemy England English Europe fact favour feeling feudal fitz France French Giraldus Greece Greek Grotius Henry Henry II historian human important influence interest invasion Ireland Irish Italy John Jus Gentium king king of Leinster knights land Leinster Lollards Lord Lord Castlereagh matter Mazzini means Meiler Mercia mind modern Montcalm moral nation nature never Parliament Penda perhaps period Peter Peter fitz political Pope practical principles Prussia question race regard reign religious republican Richard Robert Fitz-Stephen Roman Rome rule seems society Stedingen Stedingers theory things took tribes Wiclif write
Populære avsnitt
Side 67 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Side 22 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Side 24 - Art, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Side 72 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Side 74 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Side 90 - Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage ; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe; Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Side 86 - Threatning to bind our soules with secular chaines : Helpe us to save free Conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose Gospell is their maw.
Side 64 - I saw several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched ! 8th.