“The” Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations from the Earliest Times as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All AgesHenry Smith Williams History association, 1907 |
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Pagina 8
... resolved to keep his ground . " He spent the night in the field , by such a fire as could be made of the little wood and bushes which grew thereabouts . " When the day appeared , the parliamentary army still lay beneath Edgehill . It ...
... resolved to keep his ground . " He spent the night in the field , by such a fire as could be made of the little wood and bushes which grew thereabouts . " When the day appeared , the parliamentary army still lay beneath Edgehill . It ...
Pagina 11
... resolved to establish a great seal : and under this authority , and that of the king , judges executed their functions as usual , after a suspension of a few months . During these unhappy times England was in a great degree exempt from ...
... resolved to establish a great seal : and under this authority , and that of the king , judges executed their functions as usual , after a suspension of a few months . During these unhappy times England was in a great degree exempt from ...
Pagina 23
... resolved to march to the west himself . He was directed by the committee to retrace his steps , and go in pursuit of the king . Essex replied to the committee that their orders were opposed to military discipline ; and he marched Waller ...
... resolved to march to the west himself . He was directed by the committee to retrace his steps , and go in pursuit of the king . Essex replied to the committee that their orders were opposed to military discipline ; and he marched Waller ...
Pagina 24
... resolved to fight . Newcastle was indignant with the prince but he left him to his own course . On the 2nd of July , having rested two days in and near York and enabled the city to be newly provisioned , the royalist army went forth to ...
... resolved to fight . Newcastle was indignant with the prince but he left him to his own course . On the 2nd of July , having rested two days in and near York and enabled the city to be newly provisioned , the royalist army went forth to ...
Pagina 53
... resolved on the 11th of June , that a committee of the parliament and of the capital should , for the safety of the kingdom and of the parliament , raise and arm men , and adopt all suitable measures ; everybody was bound to obey and ...
... resolved on the 11th of June , that a committee of the parliament and of the capital should , for the safety of the kingdom and of the parliament , raise and arm men , and adopt all suitable measures ; everybody was bound to obey and ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 213 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Pagina 20 - I had rather have a plain russet-coated Captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call "a Gentleman" and is nothing else. I honour a Gentleman that is so indeed!
Pagina 450 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Pagina 4 - I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, as made some conscience of what they did ; and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy, they beat continually.
Pagina 256 - The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm ; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth.
Pagina 596 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Pagina 256 - Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.
Pagina 229 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Pagina 114 - The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy. Surely, if it be not, such a one we shall have, if this provoke those...
Pagina 360 - But on all this misery society looked with profound indifference. Nowhere could be found that sensitive and restless compassion which has, in our time, extended a powerful protection to the factory child, to the Hindoo widow, to the negro slave, which pries into the stores and water-casks of every emigrant ship, which winces at every lash laid on the back of a drunken soldier, which will not suffer the thief in the hulks to be ill fed or overworked, and which has repeatedly endeavored to save the...