A School History of England ...Clark & Maynard, 1882 - 302 pages |
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Page 134 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
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Page 277 - Aud in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man.
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