The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688, Том 2Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848 |
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Стр. 240 - A few days after, they appeared in his presence, armed, and attended with armed followers ; and they accused by name the archbishop of York, the duke of Ireland, the earl of Suffolk, Sir Robert Tresilian, and Sir Nicholas Brembre, as public and dangerous enemies to the state.
Стр. 170 - ... he ordered the reins of his bridle to be tied on each side to the horses of two gentlemen of his train ; and his dead body, and those of his attendants, were afterwards found among the slain, with their horses standing by them in that situation b. His crest was three ostrich feathers ; and his motto these German words, Ich dien, I serve, which the Prince of Wales and his successors adopted in memorial of this great victory.
Стр. 550 - ... them before themselves and some others, at their private houses, in a court of commission, where, in a summary manner, without trial or jury, arbitrary decrees were issued, both in pleas of the crown and controversies between private parties. Juries themselves, when summoned, proved but small security to the subject; being browbeaten by these oppressors; nay, fined, imprisoned, and punished, if they gave sentence against the inclination of the ministers The whole system of the feudal law, which...
Стр. 447 - ... of his reign : a prince more splendid and showy than either prudent or virtuous ; brave, though cruel ; addicted to pleasure, though capable of activity in great emergencies...
Стр. 445 - Feb. after his condemnation, was to leave him the choice of his death ; and he was privately drowned in a butt of malmsey in the Tower: a whimsical choice, which implies that he had an extraordinary passion for that liquor.
Стр. 584 - That prince, having given him a commission to Maximilian, who at that time resided at Brussels, was surprised in less than three days after to see Wolsey present himself before him ; and, supposing that he had been delinquent, began to reprove his delay.
Стр. 377 - No less than thirty thousand persons are said to have daily lived at his board in the different manors and castles which he possessed in England...
Стр. 167 - The artillery first framed I346were so clumsy, and of such difficult management, that men were not immediately sensible of their use and efficacy ; and even to the present times, improvements have been continually making on this furious engine, which, though it seemed contrived for the destruction of mankind and the overthrow of empires, has, in the issue, rendered battles less bloody, and has given greater stability to civil societies.
Стр. 546 - The prior was thought an holy man, and much reverenced in those days. He came to the king, and besought the king for Perkin's life only, leaving him otherwise to the king's discretion.
Стр. 210 - England was deprived at once of both these princes, its chief ornament and support: he expired in [1377.] the sixty-fifth year of his age and the fifty-first of his reign ; and the people were then sensible, though too late, of the irreparable loss which they had sustained. The...