History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-eightRoutledge, 1860 - 856 pages |
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... quarrel between Julius Cæsar , the greatest of Roman generals , and a small tribe occupying the land near the present Morbihan in France . The Veneti , though situated in the northern part of the Bay of Biscay , on the stormiest part of ...
... quarrel between Julius Cæsar , the greatest of Roman generals , and a small tribe occupying the land near the present Morbihan in France . The Veneti , though situated in the northern part of the Bay of Biscay , on the stormiest part of ...
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... quarrels . In these civil distractions . the contending parties bargained for assistance from every quarter . There were settlements of northern peoples all along the eastern coast , thinly populated , and probably not unconnected ...
... quarrels . In these civil distractions . the contending parties bargained for assistance from every quarter . There were settlements of northern peoples all along the eastern coast , thinly populated , and probably not unconnected ...
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... deserving of notice than the quarrels and reconciliations of kites or crows . But though individual traits may be un- discoverable , the broad impress of that struggling and active time is left upon our land , and we ourselves.
... deserving of notice than the quarrels and reconciliations of kites or crows . But though individual traits may be un- discoverable , the broad impress of that struggling and active time is left upon our land , and we ourselves.
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... quarrel with all his heart . He therefore stirred up treason against the crown , and Mercia and Nor- thumbria rebelled . When Edwy was weakened by the loss of the greater part of his kingdom , Odo proceeded more boldly . He seized the ...
... quarrel with all his heart . He therefore stirred up treason against the crown , and Mercia and Nor- thumbria rebelled . When Edwy was weakened by the loss of the greater part of his kingdom , Odo proceeded more boldly . He seized the ...
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... quarrels broke out among the leaders ; the ships were deserted , and wrecked upon the shore . A large army of the enemy besieged Can- terbury . Alphege , the archbishop , resisted to the last ; but treachery opened the gates , and the ...
... quarrels broke out among the leaders ; the ships were deserted , and wrecked upon the shore . A large army of the enemy besieged Can- terbury . Alphege , the archbishop , resisted to the last ; but treachery opened the gates , and the ...
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Page 487 - Let tyrants fear ... I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects...
Page 647 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
Page 727 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 657 - As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves.
Page 628 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 648 - That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; 11. That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders; 12. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void; 13.
Page 163 - 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. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by. day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Page 450 - The duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine o'clock in the morning.
Page 647 - That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Page 647 - That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.