Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers: Including Their Private Correspondence, Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, Band 1R. Bentley, 1849 |
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... danger and distraction . When the narrow rivulet of biography joins its innumerable kindred streams that form the ocean of history , ' it becomes expanded instead of being lost . Not only , however , does the current of our story tend ...
... danger and distraction . When the narrow rivulet of biography joins its innumerable kindred streams that form the ocean of history , ' it becomes expanded instead of being lost . Not only , however , does the current of our story tend ...
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... danger . The Em- peror of Austria was stirred by every motive of interest , intolerance , and pride , to revenge him- self upon the revolted States : his armies were now powerful ; his wealth incalculable . The King 1 This was not the ...
... danger . The Em- peror of Austria was stirred by every motive of interest , intolerance , and pride , to revenge him- self upon the revolted States : his armies were now powerful ; his wealth incalculable . The King 1 This was not the ...
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... dangerous personage in times of popular excite- ment . The Bohemian nobles remonstrated with Frederic ; he turned to his queen for counsel , and she , with a woman's bravery and impulse , espoused the weaker side : Scultetus was ...
... dangerous personage in times of popular excite- ment . The Bohemian nobles remonstrated with Frederic ; he turned to his queen for counsel , and she , with a woman's bravery and impulse , espoused the weaker side : Scultetus was ...
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... danger ; it now sustained him in defeat . strated by his ruin , he was only roused to the exer- tion of escaping by the energy of Elizabeth ; and it was full time . The stern Maximilian was at the gates , and allowed the city but eight ...
... danger ; it now sustained him in defeat . strated by his ruin , he was only roused to the exer- tion of escaping by the energy of Elizabeth ; and it was full time . The stern Maximilian was at the gates , and allowed the city but eight ...
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... danger , this extraordinary man died in his bed , in an obscure village in Dalmatia , bequeathing all his property ( gained by the sword , he was born to nothing else ) to Venice , where he had been educated . 2 Administrator of ...
... danger , this extraordinary man died in his bed , in an obscure village in Dalmatia , bequeathing all his property ( gained by the sword , he was born to nothing else ) to Venice , where he had been educated . 2 Administrator of ...
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Seite 205 - In this time, his house being within little more than ten miles of Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that university ; who found such an immenseness of wit, and such a solidity of judgment in him, so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in any thing, yet such an excessive humility, as if he had known nothing, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college...
Seite 144 - This firm and sensible speech silenced them. A council was held; the judges were consulted ; and on this occasion they came to a very unexpected decision, that " Felton ought not to be tortured by the rack, for no such punishment is known or allowed by our law.
Seite 205 - He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men ; and that made him too much a contemner of those arts, which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs.
Seite 112 - I have eaten his bread and served him near " thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake " him, and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I " shall do) to preserve and defend those things which are " against my conscience to preserve and defend ; for I will " deal freely with you — I have no reverence for the Bishops, " for whom this quarrel subsists.
Seite 206 - ... he must have been with it obliged to do somewhat else not justifiable. And this he made matter of conscience, since he knew the king made choice of him before other men especially because he thought him more honest than other men. The other was, lest he...
Seite 41 - I cannot omit here the hunting, namely, with running houndes, which is the most honourable and noblest sort thereof ; for it is a thievish form of hunting to shoote with gunnes and bowes ; and grey-hound hunting is not so martial a game.
Seite 328 - How much I am unsatisfied with the proceedings here, I have at large expressed in several letters. Neither is there wanting daily handsome occasion to retire, were it not for grinning honour. For let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were resolved to fight on the parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather be hanged, it will be said without doubt, that a man is afraid to fight.
Seite 183 - The humble petition of the officers and soldiers " of the army,
Seite 112 - King would yield and consent to what they desire ; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him ; and choose rather to lose my Life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend.
Seite 171 - The word goes in haste to the lord lieutenant, where he was with the king; with speed he comes to the house ; he calls rudely at the door; James Maxwell, keeper of the black rod, opens : his lordship, with a proud glooming countenance, makes towards his place at the board head...