Our native land, or, Scenes and sketches from British history, by the author of 'Scriptural instruction for the least and lowest'.1855 |
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... death of Hastings ; and without bringing him to trial , upon any well- founded accusation against him , he laid his plan , appointed the executioners , and caused the unfortunate nobleman to be seized while sitting in council in the ...
... death of Hastings ; and without bringing him to trial , upon any well- founded accusation against him , he laid his plan , appointed the executioners , and caused the unfortunate nobleman to be seized while sitting in council in the ...
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... death ; but this plan did not succeed , for Brakenbury would not commit such a crime . The matter therefore was en- trusted to another person of different feelings , -Sir James Tyrrell ; and the keeper was ordered to deliver up the keys ...
... death ; but this plan did not succeed , for Brakenbury would not commit such a crime . The matter therefore was en- trusted to another person of different feelings , -Sir James Tyrrell ; and the keeper was ordered to deliver up the keys ...
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... death ; and the Earl of Richmond was generally and gladly acknowledged king , under the title of Henry VII . You will understand , that in him were united the two rival families of Lancaster and York ; and as Tudor was his family name ...
... death ; and the Earl of Richmond was generally and gladly acknowledged king , under the title of Henry VII . You will understand , that in him were united the two rival families of Lancaster and York ; and as Tudor was his family name ...
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... death of the Duke of York , and therefore there could be no doubt that Perkin Warbeck was nothing more than an impostor ; but yet he found means of persuading some people , that the account of the young prince's murder , which was ...
... death of the Duke of York , and therefore there could be no doubt that Perkin Warbeck was nothing more than an impostor ; but yet he found means of persuading some people , that the account of the young prince's murder , which was ...
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... death . Warwick had been long cruelly op- pressed ; and as he had been found guilty of no actual crime , his execution gave great of- fence to the people , and was indeed an act of such undue severity , as to be a blemish in Henry's ...
... death . Warwick had been long cruelly op- pressed ; and as he had been found guilty of no actual crime , his execution gave great of- fence to the people , and was indeed an act of such undue severity , as to be a blemish in Henry's ...
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Стр. 364 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Стр. 164 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Стр. 57 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Стр. 57 - A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels...
Стр. 353 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Стр. 272 - Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Стр. 360 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Стр. 157 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Стр. 267 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Стр. 293 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.