The history of England from the accession of James the second. (Vol.5 ed. by lady Trevelyan).

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Trang 438 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Trang 356 - O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Trang 378 - I am sure to be half ruined. If I say Not Guilty, I shall brew no more for the King ; and if I say Guilty, I shall brew no more for anybody else.
Trang 386 - Halifax sprang up and waved his hat At that signal, benches and galleries raised a shout. In a moment ten thousand persons, who crowded the great hall, replied with a still louder shout, which made the old oaken roof crack; and in another moment the innumerable throng without set vp a third huzza, which was heard at Temple Bar.
Trang 666 - ... institutions, was divine and inviolable; that the right of the House of Commons to a share in the legislative power was a right merely human, but that the right of the King to the obedience of his people was from above; that the Great Charter was a statute which might be repealed by those who had made it, but that the rule which called the princes of the...
Trang 226 - Devil behind him pulling his clothes. He thought that the brand of Cain had been set upon him. He feared that he was about to burst asunder like Judas. His mental agony disordered his health. One day he shook like a man in the palsy. On another day he felt a fire within his breast. It is difficult to understand how he survived sufferings so intense and so long continued.
Trang 125 - Ireland. his task becomes peculiarly difficult and delicate. His steps, — to borrow the fine image used on a similar occasion by a Roman poet, — are on the thin crust of ashes, beneath which the lava is still glowing.
Trang 168 - ... not suspected by the world. From the multitude his joy and his grief, his affection and his resentment, were hidden by a phlegmatic serenity, which made him pass for the most cold-blooded of mankind. Those who brought him good news could seldom detect any sign of pleasure. Those who saw him after a defeat looked in vain for any trace of vexation.

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