The history of England from the accession of James the second. (Vol.5 ed. by lady Trevelyan). |
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volum 5 Thomas Babington Macaulay Visualització completa - 1861 |
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Pàgina 71 - On the loth of January a vessel from Holland anchored off Greenwich and was welcomed with great respect. Peter the First, Czar of Muscovy, was on board. He took boat with a few attendants and was rowed up the Thames to Norfolk Street, where a house overlooking the river had been prepared for his reception. His journey is an epoch in the history, not only of his own country but of ours, and of the world.
Pàgina 309 - He ordered several of them to be called in, and exerted himself to take leave of them with a few kind and cheerful words. Among the English who were admitted to his bedside were Devonshire and Ormond. But there were in the crowd those who felt as no Englishman could feel, — friends of his youth, who had been true to him, and to whom he had been true, through all vicissitudes of fortune ; who had served him with unalterable fidelity when his Secretaries of State, his Treasury, and his Admiralty...
Pàgina 287 - REMEMBER, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Pàgina 200 - The stoiy is an exciting one; and it has generally been told by writers whose judgment had been perverted by strong national partiality. Their invectives and lamentations have still to be temperately examined ; and it may well be doubted whether, even now, after the lapse of more than a century and a half, feelings hardly compatible with temperate examination will not be stirred up in many minds by the name of Darien. In truth that name is associated with calamities so cruel that the recollection...