Brief History of England1874 - 95 trang |
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Trang 80 - ... Whitefield and the two Wesleys separated from the Established Church of England, and founded the Society of Wesleyan Methodists. — The Porteous riot made a* great stir in Scotland : a 'smuggler named Wilson was being executed at Edinburgh : the hangman and the soldiers were pelted by the mob, which also . made a rush to get Wilson out of their hands : Captain Porteous fired on the crowd, and several were killed ; for which he was seized by the enraged mob, and hanged on a dyer's pole (1736)....
Trang 49 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs.
Trang 85 - He had the good of his people at heart, and he was beloved by them in return. During the last ten years of his life he had been now and then out of his mind, and had therefore been unable...
Trang 39 - York then laid claim to the throne. The question was 'debated in Parliament ; and it was arranged that Henry should reign till his death, and that the crown should then pass to York and his heirs. 9.
Trang 50 - Pavia. 5. There was no war with England during the reign of Francis the First ; but he once held an interview with the English king, near Calais. So much magnificence was displayed on both sides, that the place of meeting was called the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Trang 47 - America was discovered by Cabot, whom Henry VII. had sent out from Bristol. Cabot made the first map of the Western Hemisphere. A passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope was discovered by Vasco di Gama. A law was passed to prevent the nobles from keeping great numbers of dependants.
Trang 71 - Wild, and even ridiculous as this proceeding was, it imposed on the low illiterate adventurers, with whom Peru was filled, by the semblance of a legal sanction warranting Pizarro to carry on hostilities against a convicted traitor. Soldiers accordingly resorted from every quarter to his standard, and he was soon at the head of a thousand men, the best equipped that had ever taken the field in Peru.
Trang 89 - VICTOBIA. 1837 AD 1. Queen Victoria ascended the throne June 20, 1837, in the nineteenth year of her age. Her Majesty is the daughter of the late Duke of Kent, who was the brother of William IV. , and fourth son of George III. She was born at Kensington Palace, May 24, 1819. and crowned a't Westminster in 1838. In 1840 Her Majesty married her cousin, Albert of Saxe-CoburgGotha, and has four sons, Albert Edward Prinee of Wales, Alfred, Arthur, and Leopold ; and five daughters, Victoria the Princess...
Trang 29 - roused the anger of the nobles, that they seized his three chief favourites and put them to death. 2. In the seventh year of his reign he 'renewed the war with Scotland, and crossed the 'Border with an army of 100,000 men — the largest that had ever marched out of England. He was met at Bannockburn2 by Bruce with 30,000 men, and was completely defeated.
Trang 60 - Protestants followed. Forty thousand men, women, and children are said to have been slaughtered. 7. There were now two great parties in the State — the Cavaliers and the Roundheads. The former sided with the King ; the latter opposed him. The Parliament was chiefly composed of Roundheads ; and the breach between them and Charles grew wider and wider, until one day he sent orders for five of the members to be seized for high treason. 8. The Commons refused to give them up. Next day he went to the...