Epochs and episodes of historyWard Lock & Company, 1882 |
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... never dreaming of any big results from his pot - luck conversation at the pleasant supper party , his suggestion was reported to the King , who , with keen sagacity , called for the presence of the hidden genius . " Who is this Dr ...
... never dreaming of any big results from his pot - luck conversation at the pleasant supper party , his suggestion was reported to the King , who , with keen sagacity , called for the presence of the hidden genius . " Who is this Dr ...
Page 55
... never halted in his course ; relentless as Fate itself , he struck down all opposition with the brawny arm of a political blacksmith and the delicate deftness of a State cook . Like his master , Wolsey , the student of Machiavelli ...
... never halted in his course ; relentless as Fate itself , he struck down all opposition with the brawny arm of a political blacksmith and the delicate deftness of a State cook . Like his master , Wolsey , the student of Machiavelli ...
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... never part , for the best or worst doctrine in Christendom , with their riches and estates . The Bible and Book of Common Prayer were abolished ; the Statute of Heretics was revived ; Cardinal Pole returned to England in a Catholic ...
... never part , for the best or worst doctrine in Christendom , with their riches and estates . The Bible and Book of Common Prayer were abolished ; the Statute of Heretics was revived ; Cardinal Pole returned to England in a Catholic ...
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... that it would soon embrace the Bombay and Madras Pre- sidencies . To the great good fortune of the British rule in India , never in such imminent peril as at that awful moment , Lord Canning proved equal 39 INDIA'S AGONY .
... that it would soon embrace the Bombay and Madras Pre- sidencies . To the great good fortune of the British rule in India , never in such imminent peril as at that awful moment , Lord Canning proved equal 39 INDIA'S AGONY .
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... never lost his head was reluctantly acknowledged by many of his former opponents to have been in the right . He at once saw the necessity of re- capturing Delhi at all hazards , well knowing the moral effect the fall of the head ...
... never lost his head was reluctantly acknowledged by many of his former opponents to have been in the right . He at once saw the necessity of re- capturing Delhi at all hazards , well knowing the moral effect the fall of the head ...
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Page 581 - I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the Reformed Churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no further than the instruments of their Reformation.
Page 262 - It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word, so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a King can do, or say that a King cannot do this or that, but | rest in that which is the King's will revealed in his law.
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Page 177 - Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear Of Flodden's fatal field. Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear And broken was her shield ! xxxv.
Page 581 - I charge you before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. " If God reveal any thing to you, by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 498 - THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 154 - A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.