A History of England: For the Use of Schools and Academies

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Houghton, Mifflin, 1900 - 673 trang
 

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Trang 405 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Trang 430 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Trang 40 - West-Saxons, and sat down there; and many of the people they drove beyond sea, and of the remainder the greater part they subdued and forced to obey them, except king Alfred : and he, with a small band, with difficulty retreated to the woods and to the fastnesses of the moors.
Trang 140 - Of its sixty-three articles, some provided securities for personal freedom : no man was to be taken, imprisoned, or damaged in person or estate, but by the judgment of his peers and by the law of the land.
Trang 404 - I must needs say that to you, impute it to what you please : I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, and made some conscience of what they did, and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy they beat continually.
Trang 559 - This new man looks upon a new world, with new work laid ready to his hand. In the latter part of the eighteenth century an epoch was entered marked by many distinctions, but most strikingly by what may be called the transformation of the world. The generations before that time, whether ancient or modern, had found the world in which they lived much the same, so far as concerns the common conditions of life; but for us of the present age- it has been utterly transformed. Its distances mean nothing...
Trang 559 - Speaking then of the nineteenth century, he remarked that the generations before it, "whether ancient or modern, had found the world in which they lived much the same, so far as concerns the common conditions of life ; but for us of the present age it has been utterly transformed, Its distances mean nothing that they formerly did ; its...
Trang 483 - ... had been accomplished, but to set forth in the instrument by which the Prince and Princess of Orange were called to the throne, and the order of succession settled, a distinct and solemn assertion of the fundamental principles of the Constitution and of the ancient franchises of the English nation ; so that the right of the king to his crown and of the people to their liberties might rest upon one and the same title-deed.
Trang 42 - He forestalled our own age in exploring the Northern Ocean, and in sending alms to the distant Churches of India ; but he neither forsook his crown, like some of his predecessors, nor neglected its with Wash- duties, like some of his successors.
Trang 100 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.

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