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... reigns and classes , or to refer from one reign and class to another . * 4. To mention , after the English heads , at the end of each reign , 1. Such foreign princes as were allied to the royal family . 2. Foreign princes , and others ...
... reigns and classes , or to refer from one reign and class to another . * 4. To mention , after the English heads , at the end of each reign , 1. Such foreign princes as were allied to the royal family . 2. Foreign princes , and others ...
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... Reigns . reign was his putting out the eyes of his elder brother , and con- 1100 . fining him twenty - eight years in Cardiffe Castle , in Glamorganshire . * In 1110 , he began to restore learning in the university of Cambridge . The ...
... Reigns . reign was his putting out the eyes of his elder brother , and con- 1100 . fining him twenty - eight years in Cardiffe Castle , in Glamorganshire . * In 1110 , he began to restore learning in the university of Cambridge . The ...
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... Reigns . and annulled the marriage . The duke soon after married Eleanor Cobham . The good duke of Burgundy suffered ... reign of Henry V. but is undoubtedly a profile from the whole length of Edward IV . painted by Van Belcamp , which ...
... Reigns . and annulled the marriage . The duke soon after married Eleanor Cobham . The good duke of Burgundy suffered ... reign of Henry V. but is undoubtedly a profile from the whole length of Edward IV . painted by Van Belcamp , which ...
Side 42
... reign of Edward IV . * was descended from a son of Edward III . He had great talents , which he is said to have prostituted to the infamous purposes of Richard III . and to have had a principal share in his usurpation . It is certain ...
... reign of Edward IV . * was descended from a son of Edward III . He had great talents , which he is said to have prostituted to the infamous purposes of Richard III . and to have had a principal share in his usurpation . It is certain ...
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... reign of Henry VIII . JOHN BEAUFORT , first duke of Somerset . Thane . John de Beaufort , the second natural son of John duke of Lan- caster , was eminently conspicuous in most of the military cam- paigns in the reigns of Henry V. and ...
... reign of Henry VIII . JOHN BEAUFORT , first duke of Somerset . Thane . John de Beaufort , the second natural son of John duke of Lan- caster , was eminently conspicuous in most of the military cam- paigns in the reigns of Henry V. and ...
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Side 183 - Whose adorning let it not be that outWard adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Side 121 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Side 184 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Side 122 - This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle SHAKESPEARE cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life : O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
Side 159 - Monday came, all was well. Tuesday came, he not sick. Wednesday came, and still he was well ; with which his impertinent wife did much twit him in the teeth. Thursday came, and dinner was ended, he very well : he went down to the water-side and took a pair of oars to go to some buildings he was in hand with in Puddle Dock. Being in the middle of the Thames, he presently fell down, only saying, ' An impost, an impost,
Side 112 - March, 1538-9, he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron, by the title of Lord St.
Side 54 - The Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, l638,"Svo.
Side 167 - Bull's music was good ; and he remarks, in reference to some of them, " that they may be heard by a lover of music, with as little emotion as the clapper of a mill, or the rumbling of a post-chaise.
Side 156 - Lambeth, with a very good report of the neighbourhood, especially of the poor, unto whom he •was very charitable. He was a person that in horary questions (especially thefts) was very judicious and fortunate ; so also in sicknesses, which indeed was his masterpiece. In resolving questions about marriage he had good success ; in other questions very moderate.
Side 319 - It is hard to say whether his person, his understanding, or his courage, was the most extraordinary ; as the fair, the learned, and the brave, held him in equal admiration. But the same man was wise, and capricious ; redressed wrongs, and quarrelled for punctilios; hated bigotry in religion, and was himself a bigot to philosophy.