Library for the people. (Division 1). The wonders of nature and art. (Division 2). (A display of the arts of life and society). (Division 3). Worthies of the United Kingdom. (Division 4) [entitled] The chimney corner companion, Tema 21827 |
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... Europe , or the regions where Constantinople now stands . The accounts are as follow : " Three names have been given to the isle of Britain since the beginning . Before it was inhabited it was called Clas Merddin ( literally the country ...
... Europe , or the regions where Constantinople now stands . The accounts are as follow : " Three names have been given to the isle of Britain since the beginning . Before it was inhabited it was called Clas Merddin ( literally the country ...
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... Europe was amazed at it , and the greatest potentates stood in fear of him . At length Sichelin , King of the Norwegians , dying , and leaving his kingdom to Lot , Arthur's brother - in - law , the people of Norway , notwith- standing ...
... Europe was amazed at it , and the greatest potentates stood in fear of him . At length Sichelin , King of the Norwegians , dying , and leaving his kingdom to Lot , Arthur's brother - in - law , the people of Norway , notwith- standing ...
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... Europe , not only among the vulgar , but among persons of the highest rank and best education . Pope Innocent VI . firmly believed that Pe- trarch was a magician , because he read Virgil . Many miracles were reported and believed to be ...
... Europe , not only among the vulgar , but among persons of the highest rank and best education . Pope Innocent VI . firmly believed that Pe- trarch was a magician , because he read Virgil . Many miracles were reported and believed to be ...
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... Europe , long before this time . But it was not till about the middle of the thirteenth century that he ob- tained that dictatorial authority among learned men , and in the most famous seats of learning , that he so long maintained ...
... Europe , long before this time . But it was not till about the middle of the thirteenth century that he ob- tained that dictatorial authority among learned men , and in the most famous seats of learning , that he so long maintained ...
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... Europe , With him expired the liberty of his nation . The Welsh , discouraged by the death of their prince , and their defeat , and being no longer able to resist , Edward became , with ease , master of their whole country , which he ...
... Europe , With him expired the liberty of his nation . The Welsh , discouraged by the death of their prince , and their defeat , and being no longer able to resist , Edward became , with ease , master of their whole country , which he ...
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Página 368 - MY loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Página 284 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand!
Página 215 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Página 284 - Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 306 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Página 250 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 281 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Página 285 - They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms: And then the whining school-boy with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.
Página 281 - It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Página 345 - ... them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.