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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Pàgina 19
... encouraging the knowledge of it by means much more likely to succeed , and much more likely to be favoured with the divine blessing . But , not to keep you too long , I shall hasten to the end of the reign of William Rufus . William was ...
... encouraging the knowledge of it by means much more likely to succeed , and much more likely to be favoured with the divine blessing . But , not to keep you too long , I shall hasten to the end of the reign of William Rufus . William was ...
Pàgina 41
... encouraged to write to you often . I am , your affectionate father , & c . QUESTIONS . Who was king of England , after Henry II . ? In what year did Richard I. come to the throne ? What French name was given to him ? What is the meaning ...
... encouraged to write to you often . I am , your affectionate father , & c . QUESTIONS . Who was king of England , after Henry II . ? In what year did Richard I. come to the throne ? What French name was given to him ? What is the meaning ...
Pàgina 58
... encouraged in their high spirit by their bards , ( or poets ) who made war songs in praise of their country , and sung them to their harps , thus raising the courage of the people , and lifting up their minds to a resolute determination ...
... encouraged in their high spirit by their bards , ( or poets ) who made war songs in praise of their country , and sung them to their harps , thus raising the courage of the people , and lifting up their minds to a resolute determination ...
Pàgina 93
... suffer for his former con- duct but , instead of this , the young king sent for him ; told him that he had acted rightly and nobly , encouraged him to go on in the same honest and independent manner , and bestowed on him great HENRY V. 93.
... suffer for his former con- duct but , instead of this , the young king sent for him ; told him that he had acted rightly and nobly , encouraged him to go on in the same honest and independent manner , and bestowed on him great HENRY V. 93.
Pàgina 94
... encouraging all those whose characters were good , and setting his face wholly against flatterers , and drunkards , and profligates . You know , that , in the times of which I am writing , the Roman Catholic form of religion was ...
... encouraging all those whose characters were good , and setting his face wholly against flatterers , and drunkards , and profligates . You know , that , in the times of which I am writing , the Roman Catholic form of religion was ...
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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...