A plain and short history of England for children;in letters from a father to his son, by the editor of the Cottager's monthly visitor1829 |
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... afterwards called William the Conqueror . Normandy , you perhaps know , is a province in France , and of this province William was Duke , and he had often entertained Edward the Confes- sor in his court , and he pretended that Edward ...
... afterwards called William the Conqueror . Normandy , you perhaps know , is a province in France , and of this province William was Duke , and he had often entertained Edward the Confes- sor in his court , and he pretended that Edward ...
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... afterwards vainly tried to make amends for his crime by doing penance at Becket's tomb . He accordingly went down towards Canterbury . When he got within sight of the church he alighted from his horse , and walked barefoot to- wards the ...
... afterwards vainly tried to make amends for his crime by doing penance at Becket's tomb . He accordingly went down towards Canterbury . When he got within sight of the church he alighted from his horse , and walked barefoot to- wards the ...
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... afterwards . This king Henry died in the year 1272. He had reigned fifty - six years , which is the longest reign of any of the English kings - except our last good king , George the Third . To assist your memory , it may be worth while ...
... afterwards . This king Henry died in the year 1272. He had reigned fifty - six years , which is the longest reign of any of the English kings - except our last good king , George the Third . To assist your memory , it may be worth while ...
Pàgina 67
... afterwards they took Spencer , and him they hanged . At length they made the king himself prisoner ; and it would be a very long and very tedious story to tell of all the cruel ways in you which they abused and tormented him . He was ...
... afterwards they took Spencer , and him they hanged . At length they made the king himself prisoner ; and it would be a very long and very tedious story to tell of all the cruel ways in you which they abused and tormented him . He was ...
Pàgina 68
... afterwards , taken and beheaded ; but Montravers lived to be tormented in his conscience , for this foul deed . This mur- der was committed on the 21st of September , 1327 . " Mark the year and mark the night , When 68 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... afterwards , taken and beheaded ; but Montravers lived to be tormented in his conscience , for this foul deed . This mur- der was committed on the 21st of September , 1327 . " Mark the year and mark the night , When 68 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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Pàgina 90 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Pàgina 89 - O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Pàgina 90 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf 'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Pàgina 185 - It will soon carry you a great way. It will carry you from earth to heaven, and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.
Pàgina 184 - Mark, child! what I say: They will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: But mark what I say, thou must not be a king, as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them! And thy head too they will cut off at last! Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them!
Pàgina 173 - I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow — this parliament, and yet they shall not see...
Pàgina 149 - He expired at Greenwich, in the sixteenth year of his age, and the seventh of his reign.
Pàgina 235 - Fabrice's arms, he never recovered. but expired about eleven o'clock the next morning, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and the thirteenth of his reign Questions for Examination, \ What was the conduct of the South Sea scheme ? 2 Explain the nature of it, 3.
Pàgina 69 - Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace: Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king!
Pàgina 134 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...