The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 - Great Britain |
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... ranks . The knights of England found worthy rivals in the knights of France . Chandos encountered an equal foe in Du Guesclin . But France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows and bills . A French- king was brought ...
... ranks . The knights of England found worthy rivals in the knights of France . Chandos encountered an equal foe in Du Guesclin . But France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows and bills . A French- king was brought ...
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... rank . The dignity of knighthood , the rules of heraldry , were common to all . All had richly endowed ecclesiastical establishments , municipal corpo- rations enjoying large franchises , and senates whose consent was necessary to the ...
... rank . The dignity of knighthood , the rules of heraldry , were common to all . All had richly endowed ecclesiastical establishments , municipal corpo- rations enjoying large franchises , and senates whose consent was necessary to the ...
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... ranks at Hastings and scaled the walls of Jerusalem . There were Bohuns , Mowbrays , De Veres , nay kinsmen of the House of Plantagenet , with no higher addition than that of esquire , and with no civil privileges beyond those enjoyed ...
... ranks at Hastings and scaled the walls of Jerusalem . There were Bohuns , Mowbrays , De Veres , nay kinsmen of the House of Plantagenet , with no higher addition than that of esquire , and with no civil privileges beyond those enjoyed ...
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... ranks of the nobility were largely recruited from among the gentry . The constitution of the House of Commons tended greatly to promote the salutary intermixture of classes . The knight of the shire was the connecting link between the ...
... ranks of the nobility were largely recruited from among the gentry . The constitution of the House of Commons tended greatly to promote the salutary intermixture of classes . The knight of the shire was the connecting link between the ...
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... rank of sacraments . Shrift was no part of her system . Yet she gently invited the dying penitent to confess his sins to a divine , and em- powered her ministers to sooth the departing soul by an absolution , which breathes the very ...
... rank of sacraments . Shrift was no part of her system . Yet she gently invited the dying penitent to confess his sins to a divine , and em- powered her ministers to sooth the departing soul by an absolution , which breathes the very ...
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Page 408 - The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day...
Page 119 - But bearbaiting, then a favourite diversion of high and low, was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries. It is to be remarked that their antipathy to this sport had nothing in common with the feeling which has, in our own time, induced the legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 257 - At such times obstructions and quarrels were frequent, and the path was sometimes blocked up during a long time by carriers, neither of whom would break the way. It happened, almost every day, that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm, to tug them out of the slough.
Page 123 - ... skilful it was called by some fine name. The chief trick by which clever men kept up the price of their abilities was called integrity. The chief trick by which handsome women kept up the price of their beauty was called modesty.
Page 217 - At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five and twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields. Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered there by thousands.
Page 77 - In one sense, indeed, the distinction which then became obvious had always existed, and always must exist. For it has its origin in diversities of temper, of understanding, and of interest, which are found in all societies, and which will be found till the human mind ceases to be drawn in opposite directions by the charm of habit and by the charm of novelty.
Page 381 - ... and took refuge in the dwelling of a lady of his family who lived hard by. There he flung himself on a couch, and gave himself up to an agony of remorse and shame. His kinswoman, alarmed by his looks and groans, thought that he had been taken with sudden illness, and begged him to drink a cup of sack. " No, no," he said ;
Page 197 - We might find out here and there a Norman minster, or a castle which witnessed the wars of the Roses. But, with such rare exceptions, everything would be strange to us.
Page 429 - His conduct on this occasion was of a piece with his whole life. His intellect was indeed darkened by many superstitions and prejudices: but his moral character, when impartially reviewed, sustains a comparison with any in ecclesiastical history, and seems to approach, as near as human infirmity permits, to the ideal perfection of Christian virtue.
Page 24 - Early in the fourteenth century the amalgamation of the races was all but complete ; and it was soon made manifest, by signs not to be mistaken, that a people inferior to none existing in the world had been formed by the mixture of three branches of the great Teutonic family with each other, and with the aboriginal Britons.