A History of England

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D.C. Heath & Company, 1913 - 651 trang
 

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Trang 202 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Trang 347 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Trang 55 - England possessed in land or in cattle, and how much money this was worth. So very narrowly did he cause the survey to be made, that there was not a single hide nor a rood of land, nor — it is shameful to relate that which he thought no shame to do — was there an ox, or a cow, or a pig passed by, and that was not set down in the accounts, and then all these writings were brought to him.
Trang 153 - But it were any persone obstinat, ' . What-so he were, of heigh or lowe estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones. A bettre preest, I trowe that nowher noon is. He wayted after no pompe and reverence, Ne maked him a spyced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taughte, and first he folwed it himselve.
Trang 328 - For all which treasons and crimes this Court doth adjudge that he, the said Charles Stuart, as a tyrant, traitor, murderer, and public enemy to the good people of this nation, shall be put to death by the severing of his head from his body.
Trang 277 - And though you have had and may have many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have any that will be more careful and loving.
Trang 322 - 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 155 - This brook,' says Fuller, the church historian, in a passage which brings quaintness to the borders of sublimity,' hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean : and thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over.
Trang 29 - I, then, Alfred, King, gathered these together, and commanded many of those to be written which our forefathers held, those which to me seemed good ; and many of those which seemed to me not good I rejected them, by the counsel of my witan...
Trang 31 - Alfred found learning dead and he restored it, Education neglected and he revived it, The laws powerless and he gave them force, The church debased and he raised it, The land ravaged by a fearful enemy From which he delivered it, Alfred's name will live as long As mankind shall respect the past.

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