History of the English People, Volumen2Useful knowledge publishing Company, 1882 |
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... soon after Bosworth Field , makes him fairly impartial ; but he is sketchy and deficient in information . The more copious narrative of Poly . dore Vergil is far superior to these in literary ability , but of later date , and strongly ...
... soon after Bosworth Field , makes him fairly impartial ; but he is sketchy and deficient in information . The more copious narrative of Poly . dore Vergil is far superior to these in literary ability , but of later date , and strongly ...
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... soon proved a delusive one , and the strife brought wider strifes in its train . When Edward wrung from Balliol an acknowledgment of his suzerainty he foresaw little of the war with France , the war with Spain , the quarrel with the ...
... soon proved a delusive one , and the strife brought wider strifes in its train . When Edward wrung from Balliol an acknowledgment of his suzerainty he foresaw little of the war with France , the war with Spain , the quarrel with the ...
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... soon to add to these lordships the earldom of Lincoln . And to the weight of these great baronies was added his royal blood . The farther of Thomas had been a titular king of Sicily . His mother was dowager queen of Navarre . His half ...
... soon to add to these lordships the earldom of Lincoln . And to the weight of these great baronies was added his royal blood . The farther of Thomas had been a titular king of Sicily . His mother was dowager queen of Navarre . His half ...
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... soon threw the knighthood into disorder . " The horses that were stickit , " says an exulting Scotch writer , " rushed and reeled right rudely . " In the moment of failure the sight of a body of camp - followers , whom they mistook for ...
... soon threw the knighthood into disorder . " The horses that were stickit , " says an exulting Scotch writer , " rushed and reeled right rudely . " In the moment of failure the sight of a body of camp - followers , whom they mistook for ...
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... other . This isolation , however , of the estates soon showed signs of break- ing down . Though the clergy held steadily aloof from any real union with its fellow - orders , EDWARD THE THIRD . 29 -EDWARD THE THIRD 1327-1347.
... other . This isolation , however , of the estates soon showed signs of break- ing down . Though the clergy held steadily aloof from any real union with its fellow - orders , EDWARD THE THIRD . 29 -EDWARD THE THIRD 1327-1347.
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Página 280 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and thereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.
Página 422 - Wherefore, gracious king, remember yourself, have pity upon your soul ; and think that the day is even at hand, when you shall give account of your office, and of the blood that hath been shed with your sword.
Página 368 - He is a prince of most royal courage ; rather than miss any part of his will, he will endanger one half of his kingdom; and I do assure you, I have often kneeled before him, sometimes for three hours together, to persuade him from his appetite and could not prevail.
Página 383 - I had heard mass in Our Lady's Church, which is the fairest, the most gorgeous and curious church of building in all the city...
Página 345 - The king started a little, and said, " By my faith, my lord, I thank you for my " good cheer, but I may not endure to have my laws " broken in my sight; my attorney must speak with
Página 328 - ... and when I had advised me in this said book, I deliberated, and concluded to translate it into English, and forthwith took a pen and ink, and wrote a leaf or twain, which I oversaw again, to correct it; and when I saw the fair and strange terms therein, I doubted that it should not please some gentlemen, which late blamed me, saying, that in my translations, I had...
Página 433 - I beseech you to pity me, a woman and a stranger, without an assured friend and without an indifferent counsellor. I take God to witness that I have always been to you a true and loyal wife, that I have made it my constant duty to seek your pleasure, that I have loved all whom you loved, whether I have reason or not, whether they are friends to me or foes.
Página 459 - Lord, his heirs and successors kings of this realm, shall be taken, accepted, and reputed the only Supreme Head in earth of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia, and shall have and enjoy annexed and united to the imperial crown of this realm as well the title and style thereof, as all honours, dignities, pre-eminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities, to the said dignity of Supreme Head of the same Church belonging and appertaining...
Página 328 - And some honest and great clerks have been with me and desired me to write the most curious terms that I could find; and thus between plain, rude and curious I stand abashed.
Página 385 - In the institution of the weal public this end is only and chiefly pretended and minded that what time may possibly be spared from the necessary occupations and affairs of the commonwealth, all that the citizens should withdraw from bodily service to the free liberty of the mind and garnishing of the same. For herein they conceive the felicity of this life to consist.