Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest, Tập 7

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G. Bell and Sons, 1885
 

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Trang 395 - The staircase is of cedar, the furniture is princely : the kitchen and stables are ill-placed, and the corridor worse, having no report to the wings they join to. For the rest, the fore-court is noble, so are the stables ; and, above all, the gardens, which are incomparable by reason of the inequality of the ground, and a pretty piscina. The holly hedges on the terrace I advised the planting of.
Trang 343 - Lord Marlborough, Lieutenant-general of the King's army in England, Gentleman of the Bed-chamber, &c. dismissed from all his charges, military and other. for his excessive taking of bribes, covetousness and extortion on all occasions from his inferior officers.
Trang 380 - No, my dear Mrs Freeman, never believe your faithful Mrs Morley will ever submit. She can wait with patience for a sunshine day, and if she does not live to see it, yet she hopes England will flourish again.
Trang 351 - Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves.
Trang 348 - Majesty from persisting in a resolution which you are satisfied must be so great a mortification to me, as, to avoid it, I shall be obliged to retire and deprive myself of the satisfaction of living where I might have frequent opportunities of assuring you of that duty and respect which I always have been and shall be desirous to pay you upon all occasions.
Trang 113 - ... hear the bishop of Bath and Wells expounds this afternoon at your chapel, and I have a great mind to hear him ; therefore I desire you would do me the favour to let some place...
Trang 360 - If you hear there is any such thing designed, and that 'tis easy to you, pray let me see you before the wind changes, for afterwards one does not know whether they will let one have opportunities of speaking to one another. But let them do what they please, nothing shall ever vex me, so I can have the satisfaction of seeing dear Mrs. Freeman ; and I swear I would live on bread and water between four walls with her without repining ; for as long as you continue kind, nothing can ever be a real mortification...
Trang 460 - Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down : and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her under foot.
Trang 451 - She looked on idleness as the great corrupter of human nature ; and believed that if the mind had no employment given it, it would create some of the worst sort to itself...
Trang 214 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.

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