History of England: ElizabethLongmans, Green, 1879 |
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... passed current with the best ' in the payment of the statute wages of the artisan or labourer . The working man was robbed without know- ing how or why , while the tradesmen and farmers , aware that a sixpence was not a sixpence ...
... passed current with the best ' in the payment of the statute wages of the artisan or labourer . The working man was robbed without know- ing how or why , while the tradesmen and farmers , aware that a sixpence was not a sixpence ...
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... passed over England of which the religious change was only a single feature . New avenues of thought were opening on all sides with the growth of knowledge ; and as the discoveries of Columbus and Copernicus made their way into men's ...
... passed over England of which the religious change was only a single feature . New avenues of thought were opening on all sides with the growth of knowledge ; and as the discoveries of Columbus and Copernicus made their way into men's ...
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... passing or in afterwards ob- structing the execution of it . While therefore he had not extenuated the fault of those who had given way to the persecution , he had in some cases given them a hope that they had not sinned mortally . At ...
... passing or in afterwards ob- structing the execution of it . While therefore he had not extenuated the fault of those who had given way to the persecution , he had in some cases given them a hope that they had not sinned mortally . At ...
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... passing Durham Place when a stranger , who was loung- ing at the gate , drew a pistol and fired at him . The ball passed through the Italian's cap and wounded an Eng- lishman behind him . The assassin darted into the house with a crowd ...
... passing Durham Place when a stranger , who was loung- ing at the gate , drew a pistol and fired at him . The ball passed through the Italian's cap and wounded an Eng- lishman behind him . The assassin darted into the house with a crowd ...
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... passed to and fro . Cecil charged the Bishop with maintaining traitors and rebels . De Quadra 1 De Quadra to Philip , January | dwelling only in fuller detail on the 10 : MS . Simancas . The account midnight conferences of conspirators ...
... passed to and fro . Cecil charged the Bishop with maintaining traitors and rebels . De Quadra 1 De Quadra to Philip , January | dwelling only in fuller detail on the 10 : MS . Simancas . The account midnight conferences of conspirators ...
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Page 164 - ... anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast...
Page 164 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 164 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 521 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Page 382 - ... hath assured knowledge of such usage of herself, as altogether is intolerable to be borne, which, if it were not overwell known, we would both be very loath to think that it could be true. To take away this occasion of slander, he is himself determined to be at the apprehension and execution of him whom he is able manifestly to charge with the crime, and to have done him the most dishonour that can be to any man, much more being as he is.
Page 136 - The council, the Peers, the foreign ambassadors, bishops, aldermen, dignitaries of all kinds, were present in state as if at the exhibition of some wild animal of the desert. 0'N"eil stalked in, his saffron mantle sweeping round and round him, his hair curling on his back and clipped short below the eyes which gleamed from under it with a grey lustre, frowning fierce and cruel. Behind him followed his galloglasse bare-headed and fair-haired, with shirts of mail which reached their knees, a wolfskin...
Page 89 - Madam, in God's presence I speak: I never delighted in the weeping of any of God's creatures; yea, I can scarcely well abide the tears of my own boys whom my own hand corrects, much less can I rejoice in your Majesty's weeping.
Page 53 - ... Maitland tells me that four or five days ago, speaking of the affairs of France and of the Queen of Scots' marriage, the Queen of England said that if his mistress would be guided by her, she would give her a husband that should be all which she could desire ; the Queen of Scots should have Lord Robert, on whom God had bestowed so many charms that were she herself to marry she would prefer him to all the princes in the world.
Page 494 - Council, that shall find the means that your Majesty shall be quit of him without prejudice of your son ; and albeit that my Lord of Murray here present be little less scrupulous for a Protestant than your Grace is for a Papist, I am assured he will look through his fingers thereto, and will behold our doings, saying nothing to the same.
Page 543 - I had agreed to things so far against my honour and profit, that I would never perform them while I live. That made me make war — and if it were to do again I would do it. My ancestors were kings of Ulster ; and Ulster is mine, and shall be mine. O'Donnell shall never come into his country, nor Bag'enal into Newry, nor Kildare into Dundrum or Lecale. They are now mine. With this sword I won them — with this sword I will keep them.