History of the English People, Volumen1Macmillan, 1885 |
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... Papacy which William provoked by his marriage with Matilda , a daughter of the Count of Flanders , Lan- franc took the side of Rome . His opposition was met by a sentence of banishment , and the Prior had hardly set out on a lame horse ...
... Papacy which William provoked by his marriage with Matilda , a daughter of the Count of Flanders , Lan- franc took the side of Rome . His opposition was met by a sentence of banishment , and the Prior had hardly set out on a lame horse ...
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... found another leader in William's half - brother , the Bishop of Bayeux . Under pretence of aspiring by arms to the papacy Bishop Odo 1071- 1085 . collected money and men , but the 132 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE . [ BOOK.
... found another leader in William's half - brother , the Bishop of Bayeux . Under pretence of aspiring by arms to the papacy Bishop Odo 1071- 1085 . collected money and men , but the 132 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE . [ BOOK.
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... Papacy in the years that were to follow the students besieged a legate in the abbot's house at Osney . A murderous town and gown row pre- ceded the opening of the Barons ' War . " When Oxford draws knife , " ran an old rime ...
... Papacy in the years that were to follow the students besieged a legate in the abbot's house at Osney . A murderous town and gown row pre- ceded the opening of the Barons ' War . " When Oxford draws knife , " ran an old rime ...
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... Papacy . The closer study of John's history clears away the charges of sloth and incapacity with which men tried to explain the greatness of his fall . The awful lesson of his life rests on the fact that the king who lost Normandy ...
... Papacy . The closer study of John's history clears away the charges of sloth and incapacity with which men tried to explain the greatness of his fall . The awful lesson of his life rests on the fact that the king who lost Normandy ...
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... for its fruits at Rome , his diplomacy to reap its harvest in Flanders , ere he could deal with England . From the hour of his submission to the Papacy John . 1214- 1216 . CHAP . I. his one III . ] 239 THE CHARTER . 1204-1291 .
... for its fruits at Rome , his diplomacy to reap its harvest in Flanders , ere he could deal with England . From the hour of his submission to the Papacy John . 1214- 1216 . CHAP . I. his one III . ] 239 THE CHARTER . 1204-1291 .
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Página 247 - The influence of the trading class is seen in two other enactments by which freedom of journeying and trade was secured to foreign merchants and an uniformity of weights and measures was ordered to be enforced throughout the realm.
Página 520 - I am come before my time," said Lancaster, "but I will show you the reason. Your people, my lord, complain that for the space of twenty years you have ruled them harshly : however if it please God, I will help you to rule them better.
Página 440 - Why do they hold us in serfage ? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than we, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride?
Página 75 - Alfred was the noblest as he was the most complete embodiment of all that is great, all that is lovable, in the English temper. He combined as no other man has ever combined its practical energy, its patient and enduring force, its profound sense of duty, the reserve and self-control that...
Página 509 - Chaucer has received his training from war, courts, business, travel — a training, not of books, but of life. And it is life that he loves — the delicacy of its sentiment, the breadth of its farce, its laughter and its tears, the tenderness of its Griseldis, or the Smollett-like adventures of the miller and the clerks.
Página 155 - ... every rich man built his castles, and defended them against him, and they filled the land full of castles. They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men.
Página 285 - More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom ; and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave ; and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood-anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain.
Página 244 - But in itself the Charter was no novelty, nor did it claim to establish any new constitutional principles. The Charter of Henry the First formed the basis of the whole, and the additions to it are for the most part formal recognitions of the judicial and administrative changes introduced by Henry the Second. But the vague expressions of the older charters were now exchanged for precise and elaborate provisions.
Página 212 - In the silent growth and elevation of the English people the boroughs led the way : unnoticed and despised by prelate and noble they had alone preserved or won back again the full tradition of Teutonic liberty. The rights of self-government, of free speech in free meeting, of equal justice by one's equals, were brought safely across the ages of tyranny by the burghers and shopkeepers of the towns.
Página 265 - It concerns the community to see what sort of men ought justly to be chosen for the weal of the realm. ' The constitutional restrictions on the royal authority, the right of the whole nation to deliberate and decide on its own affairs and to have a voice in the selection of the administrators of government, had never been so clearly stated before.