History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, Volum 9

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C. Scribner's sons, 1871
 

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Pàgina 242 - ... we found her in her answers to have an eloquent tongue and a discreet head, and it seemeth by her doings that she hath stout courage and liberal heart adjoining thereunto.
Pàgina 143 - Queen,' he wrote the morning after the Lords' departure, ' it shall be to little purpose to me to have access to her, or to treat with her according to my instructions. It is to be feared that this tragedy will end in the Queen's person after this coronation, as it did begin in the person of David the Italian and the Queen's husband.
Pàgina 403 - If we should not pray for sinners, whom for should we pray ? seeing God came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Saint David was an adulterer, and so was she. Saint David committed murder in slaying Uriah for his wife, and so did she. But what is this to the matter? The more wicked she be, her subjects should pray for her to bring her to the spirit of repentance.
Pàgina 244 - ... she seemeth to regard no ceremonious honour beside the acknowledging of her estate regal : she showeth a disposition to speak much, to be bold, to be pleasant, and to be very familiar. She showeth a great desire to be avenged of her enemies ; she...
Pàgina 512 - In many churches they have no sermons, not one in seven years, and some not one in twelve years, as the parishes have declared to the preachers that lately came thither to preach.
Pàgina 512 - This is to signify that we whose names are by ourselves underwritten do acknowledge that it is our bounden duty to observe the contents of the Act of Parliament entitled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and the administration of the Sacraments.

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