The British Story Briefly Told: From Early Times to the Present Period, Illustrated with Thirty-six Engravings Representing the Sovereigns in Their Proper Costumes ...Baudry, 1840 - 256 trang |
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Trang 90 - William had even entertained the difficult project of totally abolishing the English language; and for that purpose, he ordered that in all schools throughout the kingdom the youth should be instructed in the French tongue; a practice which was continued from custom till after the reign of Edward III and was never indeed totally discontinued in England. The pleadings in the supreme courts of judicature were in French: The deeds were often drawn in the same language: The laws were composed in that...
Trang 75 - Remember to fight well, and put all to. death; for if we conquer we •'shall all be rich. What I gain, you will gain; if I conquer, you will conquer; if I take this land, you shall have it.
Trang 231 - In her person she was of a middle stature, and before she bore children well made. Her hair was dark, her complexion sanguine, her features strong, but not irregular ; her whole countenance more dignified than agreeable.
Trang 127 - ... and though he reached the castle of Newark, he was obliged to halt there, and his distemper soon after put an end to his life, in the forty-ninth year of his age, and eighteenth of his reign ; and freed the nation from the dangers to which it was equally exposed by his success or by his .misfortunes.
Trang 247 - January, 1820, in the eightysecond year of his age, and sixtieth of his reign.
Trang 101 - Christian name, in allowing the holy city to remain in the hands of infidels, here found the minds of men so well prepared, that the whole multitude, suddenly and violently, declared for the war, and solemnly devoted themselves to perform this service, so meritorious, as they believed it, to God and religion.
Trang 139 - Oure Fadir that art in hevenes, Halewid be thi name, Thi kingdom come to thee, Be thi will don in eerthe as in hevene. Give to us this day oure breed over othre substance, And forgive to us oure dettis as we forgiven oure dettours. And lede us not into temptation, But deliver us from ivel.
Trang 201 - ... in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign.
Trang 157 - John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, one of the sons of Edward III.
Trang 205 - To serve any good purpose, we must destroy, at one blow, the king, the royal family, the lords, the commons; and bury all our enemies in one common ruin.