The Historians' History of the World: England, 1485-1642Henry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 - World History |
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... kingdom with a settled constitution and with colonies and dependencies over all the globe . For , strange to say , during the whole range of those two centuries con- stitutional government , in the modern sense of that expression , did ...
... kingdom with a settled constitution and with colonies and dependencies over all the globe . For , strange to say , during the whole range of those two centuries con- stitutional government , in the modern sense of that expression , did ...
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... kingdom , determining not only cases of heresy , but also of matrimony , of testamentary dispositions and of other things , which the common law of the country left entirely to the ecclesiastical tribu- nals . No king of England before ...
... kingdom , determining not only cases of heresy , but also of matrimony , of testamentary dispositions and of other things , which the common law of the country left entirely to the ecclesiastical tribu- nals . No king of England before ...
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... kingdom , he could only do so by the aid of temporal princes ; and practically there were but the two princes to whom he could appeal , neither of whom dared to make war on England , lest England should ally itself with a powerful rival ...
... kingdom , he could only do so by the aid of temporal princes ; and practically there were but the two princes to whom he could appeal , neither of whom dared to make war on England , lest England should ally itself with a powerful rival ...
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... kingdom and the palatinate . And both with James I and with Charles I the recovery of the palatinate for the husband , and after- wards for the son of this Elizabeth , was the one leading motive in foreign policy . When there was no ...
... kingdom and the palatinate . And both with James I and with Charles I the recovery of the palatinate for the husband , and after- wards for the son of this Elizabeth , was the one leading motive in foreign policy . When there was no ...
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... kingdom gets into complete disorder that is the final arbiter . After the execution of the king there was nothing ... kingdoms into a kind of necessary unity , and would fain have brought back as far as could be the old traditions of the ...
... kingdom gets into complete disorder that is the final arbiter . After the execution of the king there was nothing ... kingdoms into a kind of necessary unity , and would fain have brought back as far as could be the old traditions of the ...
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Page 380 - 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...
Page 426 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave.
Page 393 - For the Queen! For the Queen! A plot is laid for my life!
Page 542 - Sir, my consent shall more acquit you herein to God than all the world can do besides. To a willing man there is no injury done.
Page 50 - The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and, whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman...
Page 48 - I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Page 472 - I think the Dane hath strangely wrought on our good English nobles; for those, whom I never could get to taste good liquor, now follow the fashion, and wallow in beastly delights. The ladies abandon their sobriety, and are seen to roll about in intoxication.
Page 116 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Page 454 - Sir, the knee-timber of your Voyage is Money; spare your purse in this particular, for upon my life you have a sufficient Pardon for all that is passed already, the King having under his Broad- Seal made you Admiral of your Fleet, and given you power of the Martial Law over your Officers and Soldiers.
Page 518 - Star-Chamber censuring the breach and disobedience to those proclamations by very great fines and imprisonment ; so that any disrespect to any acts of state, or to the persons of statesmen, was in no time more penal, and those foundations of right by which men valued their security, to the apprehension and understanding of wise men, never more in danger to be destroyed.