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" The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers,... "
Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay - Page 156
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 472 pages
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Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pages
...thirty kings: the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court...Neither military nor civil, pomp was wanting. * * * The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of...
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The Franklin Sixth Reader and Speaker: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and ...

George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 pages
...just sentence of Bacon, and the just absolution of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of Strafibrd had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment; the hall M'here Charles had confronted the high court of justice, with the placid courage that has halt' redeemed...
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English into French, a selection from the best English prose writers to be ...

Henri van Laun - 1876 - 120 pages
...kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution l of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted2 a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted3 the...
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A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges

John Seely Hart - 1877 - 392 pages
...just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Stratford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party...cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter-King-at-Arms. The judges, in their vestments of state, attended...
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The Franklin Sixth Reader and Speaker: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and ...

George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 456 pages
...kings ; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacou, and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for...the high court of justice, with the placid courage that has half redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp were wanting. The avenues were lined...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical ..., Volume 6

William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 498 pages
...sentence of Bacon, and the just ''"absolution of Soniers; the hall, where the eloquence of Stafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party...High Court of Justice, with the placid courage which half redeemed his fame. 2. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with...
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The Elements of Rhetoric

James De Mille - 1878 - 618 pages
...kings ; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for...cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter King at Arms. The judges, in their vestments of state, attended...
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The Legal News, Volume 1

James Kirby - 1878 - 658 pages
...just sentence of Bacon, and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Stafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party...placid courage which has half redeemed his fame." The great Essayist by his love of dramatic effect, and by his immediate subject which wan the trial...
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English Party Leaders and English Parties: Sir Robert Walpole. William Pitt ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 518 pages
...just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and united a victorious party inflamed with just resentment,...placid courage which has half redeemed his fame." Then the prisoner was a man whom no one could regard without the strongest interest. For fifteen years...
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A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges

John Seely Hart - 1878 - 396 pages
...kings; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers ; the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party in:l mi'-d with just resentment; the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with...
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