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A Short History of England and the British Empire Laurence Marcellus Larson No preview available - 2023 |
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Advanced History Angevin Anglican archbishop army barons Bates and Coman battle became began bishops boroughs Britain British Canterbury Catholic century Charles Charter Cheyney chief chiefly Cnut colonies council court Cranmer Cromwell crown curia regis Danelaw death developed duke dynasty earl Edward Edward III election Elizabeth English church English king favor feudal Fletcher force foreign France French Gardiner Gascony Henry II Henry VIII Henry's History of England house of lords important India Innes Ireland Irish James John John Balliol Kendall king's kingdom land later lords Mary Masterman ment merchants minister monasteries monks movement nation Norman Oman papal parliament parliamentary party peace period Philip political pope prince Protestant Protestantism Puritan queen Ransome reform reign Review sec revolt Richard Roman Rome royal ruler Scotch Scotland soon Spain Stuart throne tion Tories Tout trade treaty Tudor Tuell and Hatch villeins Wales Whig William
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Page 294 - She shall be lov'd and fear'd : her own shall bless her ; Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her ! In her days every man shall eat in safety, Under his own vine, what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours...
Page 488 - When France in wrath her giant-limbs upreared, And with that oath, which smote air, earth, and sea, Stamped her strong foot and said she would be free, Bear witness for me, how I hoped and feared!
Page 101 - No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
Page 514 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, — Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring,— Hulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know...
Page 367 - that according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this Kingdom, the government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons.
Page 309 - If this be all that they have to say, I shall make them conform themselves, or I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.
Page 514 - AN old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king ; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn — mud from a muddy spring ; Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know. But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood...
Page 295 - And hang their heads with sorrow : good grows with her In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. God shall be truly known ; and those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Page 293 - He dying, left the fairest Tanaquill Him to succeede therein by his last will : Fairer and nobler liveth none this howre, Ne like in grace, ne like in learned skill ; Therefore they Glorian call that glorious flowre : Long mayst thou, Glorian!
Page 514 - A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field ; An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield ; Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay ; Religion Christless, Godless — a book sealed ; A Senate — Time's worst statute unrepealed, — Are graves, from which a glorious Phantom may Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.