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A very fatal instance of the folly of kings , in permitting private friendships to
supersede public duty , distinguished the reign of Edward II . It rarely happens ,
that subjects of sufficient virtue are to be found whose abilities and integrity make
them ...
A very fatal instance of the folly of kings , in permitting private friendships to
supersede public duty , distinguished the reign of Edward II . It rarely happens ,
that subjects of sufficient virtue are to be found whose abilities and integrity make
them ...
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The grand error of the life of Edward II . was his strange , infatuated , and
perverse friendship for the successive favourites , Gaveston and Speneer . The
example of Henry III . was before him , and yet he ventured once more to force
the people ...
The grand error of the life of Edward II . was his strange , infatuated , and
perverse friendship for the successive favourites , Gaveston and Speneer . The
example of Henry III . was before him , and yet he ventured once more to force
the people ...
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The majestic and graceful Edward excelled in the various feats performed at the
tournament ; and frequently witnessed those martial amusements . He invariably
conquered when he led his armies to battle ; and this uninterrupted success was
...
The majestic and graceful Edward excelled in the various feats performed at the
tournament ; and frequently witnessed those martial amusements . He invariably
conquered when he led his armies to battle ; and this uninterrupted success was
...
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Then came the last , Edward Beauchamp and Clarius de Savoye . This bastard
was a hardy and strong Squire , and much better formed in all his limbs than the
Englishman . They ran at each other with a hearty good - will ; both struck their ...
Then came the last , Edward Beauchamp and Clarius de Savoye . This bastard
was a hardy and strong Squire , and much better formed in all his limbs than the
Englishman . They ran at each other with a hearty good - will ; both struck their ...
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Previous to the decisive victory at Cressy Edward retired to his oratory , and
fervently prayed for success in the approaching conflict . Early in the morning of
the day of battle he heard mass , in company with the Prince of Wales ; and all
the ...
Previous to the decisive victory at Cressy Edward retired to his oratory , and
fervently prayed for success in the approaching conflict . Early in the morning of
the day of battle he heard mass , in company with the Prince of Wales ; and all
the ...
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Seite 220 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 190 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Seite 186 - I inquire of it, and hearken for it; but now charity is waxen cold, none helpeth the scholar, nor yet the poor.
Seite 194 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor.
Seite 186 - But London was never so ill as it is now. In times past men were full of pity and compassion, but now there is no pity; for in London their brother shall die in the streets for cold, he shall lie sick at the door between stock and stock, I cannot tell what to call it, and perish there for hunger: was there ever more unmercifulness in Nebo?
Seite 243 - Colonel Hutchinson privately discoursing with his cousin about the communications he had had with the king, Ireton's expressions were these: " He gave us words, and we paid him in his own coin, when we found he had no real intention to the people's good, but to prevail by our factions, to regain by art what he had lost in fight.
Seite 193 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field.
Seite 230 - Hearing her so much deplored, he made inquiry after her, and grew so in love with the description that no other discourse could at first please him, nor could he at last endure any other ; he grew desperately melancholy, and would go to a mount where the print of her foot was cut, and lie there pining and kissing of it all the day long, till at length death, in some months' space, concluded his languishment.
Seite 352 - April, in the 17th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles the Second by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.
Seite 418 - In every parish is (or was) a church-house, to which belonged spits, crocks, &c., utensils for dressing provision. Here the housekeepers met and were merry, and gave their charity. The young people were there too, and had dancing, bowling, shooting at butts, &c., the ancients sitting gravely by, and looking on. All things were civil, and without scandal.
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| Titel | Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ... Band 1 von Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries, James Peller Malcolm |
| Autor/in | James Peller Malcolm |
| Ausgabe | 2 |
| Verlag | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 9. Mai 2008 |
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