LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY1841 |
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עמוד xv
... king's journey to Scotland in 1641 . Fourth interval , from that journey to the civil war . Prynne's Speech in Cobbett - Walker's History of Independents to be looked at , and the King's Letters in Royston's edition of his works - Mrs ...
... king's journey to Scotland in 1641 . Fourth interval , from that journey to the civil war . Prynne's Speech in Cobbett - Walker's History of Independents to be looked at , and the King's Letters in Royston's edition of his works - Mrs ...
עמוד xviii
... KING OF PRUSSIA . THIEBAULT - Edinburgh Review of that work - Tower's Life of the King of Prussia . These will be sufficient for the general reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and ...
... KING OF PRUSSIA . THIEBAULT - Edinburgh Review of that work - Tower's Life of the King of Prussia . These will be sufficient for the general reader . Mirabeau on the Prussian Monarchy ; particularly the first vol . and last ; read and ...
עמוד 20
... king , James the First , was the most egregious pedant of this kind on record ; the mysteries of his state - craft , as he called it , were deemed by him to be so profound , that they were not to be comprehended even by the houses of ...
... king , James the First , was the most egregious pedant of this kind on record ; the mysteries of his state - craft , as he called it , were deemed by him to be so profound , that they were not to be comprehended even by the houses of ...
עמוד 78
... king , as the greatest of those lords . In England the situation of things was not exactly the same as in the rest of Europe , from the greater influence of the crown : but in general it may be said , that whatever shook and scattered ...
... king , as the greatest of those lords . In England the situation of things was not exactly the same as in the rest of Europe , from the greater influence of the crown : but in general it may be said , that whatever shook and scattered ...
עמוד 90
... king's friends and attendants . Robert , to save his subjects from the guilt of perjury , made them swear upon a shrine from which he had withdrawn the relics ; such was the reasoning of the king himself . In the ensuing reign of Henry ...
... king's friends and attendants . Robert , to save his subjects from the guilt of perjury , made them swear upon a shrine from which he had withdrawn the relics ; such was the reasoning of the king himself . In the ensuing reign of Henry ...
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עמוד 10 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
עמוד 193 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
עמוד 80 - Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil.
עמוד 28 - Alii immani magnitudine simulacra habent, quorum contexta viminibus membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus succensis circumventi flamma exanimantur homines.
עמוד iii - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
עמוד 408 - He would confirm his spirit in the truth and lead him by a right enlightened conscience ; and finding no check, but a confirmation in his conscience that it was his duty to act as he did, he upon serious debate, both privately and in his addresses to God, and in conferences with conscientious, upright, unbiassed persons, proceeded to sign the sentence against the king.
עמוד 358 - Lastly, for a complement of all these blessings, they were enjoyed by, and under the protection of, a king, of the most harmless disposition, and the most exemplary piety, the greatest example of sobriety, chastity, and mercy, that any prince...
עמוד 358 - Star-Chamber censuring the breach and disobedience to those proclamations by very great fines and imprisonment ; so that any disrespect to any acts of state, or to the persons of statesmen, was in no time more penal, and those foundations of right by which men valued their security, to the apprehension and understanding of wise men, never more in danger to be destroyed.
עמוד 408 - ... although he was very much confirmed in his judgment concerning the cause, yet being here called to an extraordinary action, whereof many were of several minds, he addressed himself to God by prayer, desiring the Lord, that, if through any human frailty, he were led into any error or false opinion in those great transactions, he would open his eyes, and not suffer him to proceed, but that he would confirm his...
עמוד 112 - And let this little hanging ball alone ; For give you but a foot of conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe.