A History of England: For the Use of SchoolsVan Antwerp, Bragg & Company, 1875 - 287 trang |
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Trang 107 - Good people," cried the preacher, "things will never go well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villains and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we? On what grounds have they deserved it ? Why do they hold us in serfage?
Trang 108 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Trang 201 - CHARLES II Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
Trang 166 - Majesty should be misinformed if any man should deliver that the Kings of England have any absolute power in themselves either to alter Religion...
Trang 84 - No free man shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor send upon him, unless by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Trang 158 - Amen," while the rest of the spectators wept and sighed at this affecting spectacle ; for flattery and zeal alike gave place to stronger and better emotions. Thus died Mary, in the forty-fifth year of her age, and the nineteenth of her captivity — a princess unmatched in beauty, and unequalled in misfortunes.
Trang 81 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR BE DISSEISED OF HIS FREEHOLD, OR LIBERTIES, OR FREE CUSTOMS, OR BE OUTLAWED, OR EXILED, OR ANY OTHERWISE DESTROYED ; NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR SEND UPON HIM, BUT BY LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND. WE WILL SELL TO NO MAN, WE WILL NOT DENY OR DELAY TO ANY MAN, JUSTICE OR RIGHT.* " It is obvious,
Trang 139 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Trang 182 - That the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, do Declare, That the People are, under God, the Original of all just Power: And do also Declare, that the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, being chosen by, and representing the People, have the Supreme Power in this Nation...
Trang 178 - of the times, and foresee much misery to my country ; but believe that I shall be out of it ere night.