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Pagina 21
... Houses were to be built , cattle , seed and implements purchased by the company's funds , and they were to be the company's property . The company undertook to provide food for the settlers — who were to have all things common . All the ...
... Houses were to be built , cattle , seed and implements purchased by the company's funds , and they were to be the company's property . The company undertook to provide food for the settlers — who were to have all things common . All the ...
Pagina 33
... house where the neighbours were feasting at supper . Being received by the owners of the house , he sat down with them at the entertainment , hanging the cloth in which he had brought the earth on a post against the wall . They sat long ...
... house where the neighbours were feasting at supper . Being received by the owners of the house , he sat down with them at the entertainment , hanging the cloth in which he had brought the earth on a post against the wall . They sat long ...
Pagina 47
... house of Anjou . These fresh attributes made him the very man for the emergency in which he was called to the throne . The vacillation and weakness of Stephen's rule were swept aside by him with the impetuosity of a whirlwind . Without ...
... house of Anjou . These fresh attributes made him the very man for the emergency in which he was called to the throne . The vacillation and weakness of Stephen's rule were swept aside by him with the impetuosity of a whirlwind . Without ...
Pagina 54
... House of Commons , had shaken the whole Feudal fabric , while as yet society was not established on a firmer basis . Lollardism was seething among the masses of the people , but had not consolidated itself into a guide for action ...
... House of Commons , had shaken the whole Feudal fabric , while as yet society was not established on a firmer basis . Lollardism was seething among the masses of the people , but had not consolidated itself into a guide for action ...
Pagina 55
... Joan of Arc at its close . Both Henry IV . and Henry V. were , as to the weight of merely personal character- istics , restrained by the growing influence of the House of Commons , to which the weakness of their claim to 55.
... Joan of Arc at its close . Both Henry IV . and Henry V. were , as to the weight of merely personal character- istics , restrained by the growing influence of the House of Commons , to which the weakness of their claim to 55.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 68 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 73 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Pagina 35 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Pagina 75 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Pagina 51 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what...
Pagina 80 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
Pagina 65 - While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched...
Pagina 80 - Christian civilization, but by the license of a time when " every " man did what was right in his own eyes," — and when the maxim of them of old time still prevailed over every other consideration, — " Thou shalt love u thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.