Student's History of England: From the Earliest Times to 1885, Volume 2Longmans, Green and Company, 1892 - Great Britain |
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... received valuable assistance from the Rev. W. HUNT , who has kindly gone through the proof - sheets , and has called my attention to several errors and omissions which had escaped my eye . The illustrations of this volume , like those ...
... received valuable assistance from the Rev. W. HUNT , who has kindly gone through the proof - sheets , and has called my attention to several errors and omissions which had escaped my eye . The illustrations of this volume , like those ...
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... received a further impulse through the taking of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 , when the dispersal of Greek teachers from the East revived the study of the Greek language . It was not merely because new teachers landed in Italy ...
... received a further impulse through the taking of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 , when the dispersal of Greek teachers from the East revived the study of the Greek language . It was not merely because new teachers landed in Italy ...
Page 382
... received his own approval . 9. The Legatine Court . 1529. — The court of the two legates was opened at Blackfriars in 1529. Before proceeding to business they tried hard to induce either Henry to abstain from asking for a divorce or ...
... received his own approval . 9. The Legatine Court . 1529. — The court of the two legates was opened at Blackfriars in 1529. Before proceeding to business they tried hard to induce either Henry to abstain from asking for a divorce or ...
Page 387
... of the author of that book had not been put to the test . Even in the Utopia More had confined his tolerance to those who argued in opposition to the received religion. Clergy 1532 Sir Thomas More and Protestants 1529-1532.
... of the author of that book had not been put to the test . Even in the Utopia More had confined his tolerance to those who argued in opposition to the received religion. Clergy 1532 Sir Thomas More and Protestants 1529-1532.
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... received religion without anger or spite , and when he came to be in office he learnt by practical experience that opposition is seldom carried on in the spirit of meekness . Protestantism , as the Lutheran tenets began to be called in ...
... received religion without anger or spite , and when he came to be in office he learnt by practical experience that opposition is seldom carried on in the spirit of meekness . Protestantism , as the Lutheran tenets began to be called in ...
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Page 520 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 536 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
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Page 577 - according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this kingdom, the Government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons.
Page 629 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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Page 540 - You must get men of a spirit, and take it not ill what I say — I know you will not — of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go, or else you will be beaten still.
Page 574 - 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...