...Tower - 'for King Henry the Eighth, if all the Pictures and Patterns of a mercilles Prince were lost 33 in the World, they might all again be painted to the Life, out of the Story of this King'. (The armoured codpiece, until recently displayed in a wall-case and which in the seventeenth century...

...of the king who ruled during the stormy times from 1509 to 1547. Of him Sir Walter Raleigh wrote, " If all the pictures and patterns of a merciless prince...painted to the life out of the story of this king." But he was God's instrument for changes which were to affect history for many centuries. Another outstanding...

...Henry pronounced on him by histonans is that he vm. of a merciless prince," says Sir Walter Raleigh, " were lost in the world, they might all again be painted to the life out of the story of this king." " Perhaps no other monarch since the emancipation of woman from polygamy," says Mackintosh, " has put...

...said, he thought that Ralegh had criticised too freely the character of Henry VIII, when he said ' if all the pictures and patterns of a merciless prince...lost in the world, they might all again be painted out of the story of this king.' To the fanatical believer in the divine right of kings, any censure...

...laws. * — " For Henry the Eighth ; if all the pictures and patterni of a mercilefs prince " were loft in the world, they might all again be painted to the life, out of the Ilory " of this king. How many fervants did he advance in hafte, but for what virtue no" man could...