A history of England, by mrs Markham 12th ed |
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Page 271 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 357 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 232 - Kingston, had I but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 355 - The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children...
Page 8 - The barbarians drive us to the sea; the sea throws us back on the barbarians; thus two modes of death await us; we are either slain or drowned.
Page 342 - His wife and children were setting up for principality, which suited no better with any of them than scarlet on the ape ; only, to speak the truth of himself, he had much natural greatness, and well became the place he had usurped.
Page 285 - I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this Parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow this Parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them.
Page 353 - He died in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign.
Page 144 - We will not be the dregs of all : seeing other nations have the law of God, which is the law of our faith, written in their own language.
Page 322 - when I was lately offering up petitions for his majesty's restoration, felt my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, and considered this preternatural movement as the answer which Heaven, having rejected the king, had sent to my supplications.