Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate A Short History of EnglandGinn, 1908 - 781 pàgines Provides primary sources on Great Britain's history taken from works such as those by Tacitus, excerpts from Beowulf, Froissart, legal statutes, love letters, Fox's book of martyrs, diaries, personal letters etc. |
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Pàgina xxvi
... king RUSHWORTH , Historical Collections , Vol . VII , pp . 1418- 1419 . 297. Death warrant of Charles I. PAGE 486 489 Ibid . p . 1426 . 298. The king's last night 489 WARWICK , Memoirs of King Chares II , 2d ed . , pp . 336 $ 99 . 299 ...
... king RUSHWORTH , Historical Collections , Vol . VII , pp . 1418- 1419 . 297. Death warrant of Charles I. PAGE 486 489 Ibid . p . 1426 . 298. The king's last night 489 WARWICK , Memoirs of King Chares II , 2d ed . , pp . 336 $ 99 . 299 ...
Pàgina xxxii
... king's acknowledgment of American independence 636 King's speech on opening parliament , December 5 , 1782 , Annual Register , 1783 , pp . 311-312 . 388. Presentation of the first American minister to England 637 Letter of John Adams to ...
... king's acknowledgment of American independence 636 King's speech on opening parliament , December 5 , 1782 , Annual Register , 1783 , pp . 311-312 . 388. Presentation of the first American minister to England 637 Letter of John Adams to ...
Pàgina 50
... king's chief men , approving of his words and exhortations , presently added : " The present life of man on earth , O king , seems to me , in comparison of that time which is unknown to us , like the swift flight of a sparrow through ...
... king's chief men , approving of his words and exhortations , presently added : " The present life of man on earth , O king , seems to me , in comparison of that time which is unknown to us , like the swift flight of a sparrow through ...
Pàgina 59
... King 39. Extracts Offa's daughter ; and in his days first came three ships of from the Northmen out of Denmark . And then the reeve rode to the Saxon place , and would have driven them to the king's town , because Chronicle he knew not ...
... King 39. Extracts Offa's daughter ; and in his days first came three ships of from the Northmen out of Denmark . And then the reeve rode to the Saxon place , and would have driven them to the king's town , because Chronicle he knew not ...
Pàgina 60
... kings of the Egbert , king into Kent with a large force , and they drove Baldred the king northwards over the Thames . And the men of Kent , and the men of Surrey , and the South Saxons , and the East Saxons submitted to him ; for ...
... kings of the Egbert , king into Kent with a large force , and they drove Baldred the king northwards over the Thames . And the men of Kent , and the men of Surrey , and the South Saxons , and the East Saxons submitted to him ; for ...
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Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to ... Edward Potts Cheyney Visualització completa - 1908 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 436 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Pàgina 410 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery; but I assure you I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear...
Pàgina 480 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Pàgina 506 - ... 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...
Pàgina 630 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Pàgina 547 - Westminster do resolve that William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be declared king and queen of England, France and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging, to hold the crown and royal dignity of the said kingdoms and dominions to them, the said prince and princess, during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange...
Pàgina 546 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law; 7.
Pàgina 479 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Pàgina 459 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament...
Pàgina 741 - It shall not be required as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school, or any place of religious worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects in the school or elsewhere...