Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and ReadersElizabeth Kimball Kendall Macmillan, 1900 - 483 pages |
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... never men . To remedy this would be a long step toward success in the teaching of history , and here the value of the original letter or description is at once apparent . What brilliant character sketch can so surely bring home to the ...
... never men . To remedy this would be a long step toward success in the teaching of history , and here the value of the original letter or description is at once apparent . What brilliant character sketch can so surely bring home to the ...
Page xix
... never before what the study and writing of history actually are ; he will have felt for himself the per- sonal note , so interesting and so misleading ; he will realize in a measure the difficulties of dealing with incomplete and ...
... never before what the study and writing of history actually are ; he will have felt for himself the per- sonal note , so interesting and so misleading ; he will realize in a measure the difficulties of dealing with incomplete and ...
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... never before made a treaty with any one . The king , hearing that , took pity upon them , and received such hos- tages as he chose ; after which the pagans swore , moreover , that they would immediately leave the kingdom ; and their ...
... never before made a treaty with any one . The king , hearing that , took pity upon them , and received such hos- tages as he chose ; after which the pagans swore , moreover , that they would immediately leave the kingdom ; and their ...
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... never again get to the sea : then they went homewards another way . Then were forces assembled at Kennet and they there joined battle , and they soon brought that band to flight , and afterwards carried their booty to the sea . But ...
... never again get to the sea : then they went homewards another way . Then were forces assembled at Kennet and they there joined battle , and they soon brought that band to flight , and afterwards carried their booty to the sea . But ...
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... never before , according as books say unto us , had been among the English nation in any king's days . And they were all brought together to Sandwich , and there they were to lie and defend this land against every foreign army . But ...
... never before , according as books say unto us , had been among the English nation in any king's days . And they were all brought together to Sandwich , and there they were to lie and defend this land against every foreign army . But ...
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Page 251 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd.
Page 281 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own. Yet fame deserved, no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abethdin With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access.
Page 250 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor called the gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 280 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Page 445 - Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Page 446 - How humble, yet how hopeful, he could be ; How, in good fortune and in ill, the same ; Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he, Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame.
Page 281 - Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...
Page 272 - Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the fire rage every way ; and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the Fire...
Page 279 - Of whatsoe'er descent their godhead be, Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree, In his defence his servants are as bold As if he had been born of beaten gold. The Jewish Rabbins, though their enemies, In this conclude them honest men and wise ; For 'twas their duty, all the learned think, T" espouse his cause by whom they eat and drink.
Page 353 - If the Ministers thus persevere in misadvising and misleading the King, I will not say that they can alienate the affections of his subjects from his crown ; but I will affirm that they will make the crown not worth his wearing. 1 will not say that the King is betrayed ; but I will pronounce that the kingdom is undone.