A School History of EnglandE. Maynard & Company, 1889 - 427 pages |
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afterward Albans Alfred ancient Anglo-Saxon Archbishop army barons battle Battle of Crecy became bishops Black Prince Britain Britannia Secunda British Britons brother Bruce Cæsar Calais called Canterbury Canute castle caused century character Charles Chaucer chief Christianity church commenced compelled conquest crown Danes death defeated died earl East Anglia Edgar Atheling Edmund Edward Edward III Egbert emperor enemies England English Essex Ethelred Ethelwolf executed feudal forces France French Guienne Harold Henry Henry IV History of England inhabitants insurrection invaded invasion Ireland island Isle James John of Gaunt Kent king king's kingdom land latter Lollards London Lord Mercia monarch Mortimer murder nobles Norman Normandy Northumbria Parliament period Picts Plantagenet prisoner Progressive Map provinces queen reign Richard Robert Roger Bacon Roman royal Saxons Scotland Scots Scottish slain soon succeeded successor throne tion took treaty Verulamium victory Wales Wat Tyler Welsh Wickliffe William York
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Page 142 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
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Page 57 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR DISSEISED, OR OUTLAWED, OR BANISHED, OR ANY WAYS DESTROYED, NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Page 165 - He was not only sightless : he became utterly deaf. All light, all reason, all sound of human voices, all the pleasures of this world of God, were taken from him. Some slight lucid moments he had ; in one of which, the queen, desiring to see him, entered the room, and found him singing a hymn, and accompanying himself at the harpsichord.
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Page 177 - I look through all his life, and recognize but a bow and a grin. I try and take him to pieces, and find silk stockings, padding, stays, a coat with frogs and a fur collar, a star and blue ribbon, a pockethandkerchief prodigiously scented, one of Truefitt's best nutty brown wigs reeking with oil, a set of teeth and a huge black stock, underwaistcoats, more underwaistcoats, and then nothing.
Page 162 - The most triumphant death is that of the martyr ; the most awful that of the martyred patriot ; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory : and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory.
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Page 165 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the gr^ve where our hero we buried.