The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British WorthiesC. Knight, 1845 |
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... lived a life of devotion and penitence ; but all that is known as to the time of her death is , that it took place before that of her father , and he was still alive in 1165 . Henry , finding that nothing could be done at present in ...
... lived a life of devotion and penitence ; but all that is known as to the time of her death is , that it took place before that of her father , and he was still alive in 1165 . Henry , finding that nothing could be done at present in ...
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... lived . : The war that followed between Henry and his sons , aided by King Louis , did not last long . Attacked as he was on every side at once - in Brittany , in Normandy , in Anjou , in Guienne , in England ; from France , from ...
... lived . : The war that followed between Henry and his sons , aided by King Louis , did not last long . Attacked as he was on every side at once - in Brittany , in Normandy , in Anjou , in Guienne , in England ; from France , from ...
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... lived from the time of the Interdict in the reign of John , to the beginning of the interference with Scotland in that of Edward I. His age is that of Cardinal Cusa , Thomas à Kempis , Matthew Paris , Albertus Magnus , Raymond Lully ...
... lived from the time of the Interdict in the reign of John , to the beginning of the interference with Scotland in that of Edward I. His age is that of Cardinal Cusa , Thomas à Kempis , Matthew Paris , Albertus Magnus , Raymond Lully ...
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... lived , there is not a word of any other force except that of persuasion . He takes care to have both authority and reason for every proposition that he advances : perhaps , indeed , he might have experi- enced forbearance at the hand ...
... lived , there is not a word of any other force except that of persuasion . He takes care to have both authority and reason for every proposition that he advances : perhaps , indeed , he might have experi- enced forbearance at the hand ...
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... lived hun- dreds of years is a relation taken from another . Vol- taire , in his Philosophical Dictionary , has overlooked this distinction , and has much to say in consequence . It was , however , no very strange matter that Bacon ...
... lived hun- dreds of years is a relation taken from another . Vol- taire , in his Philosophical Dictionary , has overlooked this distinction , and has much to say in consequence . It was , however , no very strange matter that Bacon ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterwards Anne Anne Boleyn appears archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury arms army Bacon Bishop Bishop of Winchester brother brought called Canterbury Cardinal Castle Catherine Catherine Parr Chancellor Chaucer church clergy Colet council court Cranmer Cromwell crown daughter death declared died doctrine doubt Duchess Duke of Norfolk Earl Edward Elizabeth England English father favour France French king Friar friends hand head heart Henry VIII Henry's honour House of York James John John of Gaunt king's knights Knox Lady Jane Lady Jane Grey Latimer learned letter lived London Lord marriage married Mary matter never noble Oxford parliament person poet pope preaching prince prison proceedings Queen Reformation reign Richard Ridley Roger Bacon Rome royal says Scotland Scots sent sermon Sir Thomas soon Surrey Surrey's Thomas Cromwell throne tion told took Tower treason unto Wiclif wife Winchester Windsor Castle Wolsey writings young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 151 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Seite 60 - 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 Berkeley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king...
Seite 33 - With silver drops the meads yet spread for ruth ; In active games of nimbleness and strength, Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies praise ; Recording soft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.
Seite 129 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep and my mother milked thirty kine...
Seite 29 - So thick the boughis and the leavis green Beshaded all the alleys that there were, And mids of every arbour might be seen The sharpe greene sweete juniper, Growing so fair with branches here and there, That as it seemed to a lyf without, The boughis spread the arbour all about.
Seite 52 - For we can give such figures to transparent bodies, and dispose them in such order with respect to the eye and the objects, that the rays shall be refracted and bent towards any place we please ; so that we shall see the object near at hand, or at a distance under any angle we please. And thus from an incredible distance we may read the smallest letters, and may number the smallest particles of dust and sand...
Seite 129 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, He would not have given me over, in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is my just reward for my pains and diligence, not regarding my service to God, but only my duty to my prince.
Seite 70 - ... to be godfather to his child, and named him Peter. But afterwards, proving a dainty and effeminate youth, he was commonly called by the diminutive of his name, Peterkin, or Perkin. For as for the name of Warbeck, it was given him when they did but guess at it, before examinations had been taken. But yet he had been so much talked on by that name, as it stuck by him after his true name of Osbeck was known.
Seite 154 - I have been brought up," quoth he, "at Oxford, at an Inn of Chancery, at Lincoln's Inn, and also in the King's Court, — and so forth from the lowest degree to the highest; and yet have I in yearly revenues at this present left me little above an hundred pounds by the year.
Seite 133 - At length his sovereign frowns — the train of state Mark the keen glance, and watch the sign to hate. Where'er he turns, he meets a stranger's eye, His suppliants scorn him, and his followers fly; Now drops at once the pride of awful state, The golden canopy, the glittering plate, The regal palace, the luxurious board, The liveried army, and the menial lord; With age, with cares, with maladies oppress'd, He seeks the refuge of monastic rest.