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Chambers's historical readers. [With] Home lesson book i(-iv.). Chambers W. and R., ltd Повний перегляд - 1884 |
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Сторінка 74 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Сторінка 50 - The boy looked down and blushed, and said all the praise was due to his father ; and when King Edward saw how brave his son had been in battle, and how modest he was after it, this gave him more joy than the great victory of Crecy. Among those killed in the battle was the old blind king of Bohemia. When he found that the French were losing, he asked the knights who were near him to lead him into the thick of the fight, so that he might strike at least one good blow. They did so, and he fell. Young...
Сторінка 51 - Wales, surnamed the Black Prince, from the colour of his armour, was the eldest son of Edward III, and Philippaof Hainault, and was born in 1330.
Сторінка 12 - ... told, rather than fall into the hands of the victor. In spite of all that the brave Britons could do, the Romans made themselves masters of the country. They kept many thousands of soldiers in it, and ruled it for nearly four hundred years. At the end of that time they took away their officers and soldiers, because these were needed in their own land.
Сторінка 36 - One of the first things he did, on his return, was to paint his mother, reading by candle light. It was a small picture, and though I saw it in a room containing " The dying Hercules," and the like, yet it was the only picture I saw.
Сторінка 110 - Nobody knows to this day who made the mistake, but a wrong order was given. The six hundred men of the Light Brigade were told to make a charge right up to the mouth of the Russian cannon.
Сторінка 43 - ... English kingdom and is now one of the most peaceful, loyal, and law-abiding parts of the British Kingdom. 7. Ever since the conquest of Wales the eldest son of the English sovereign has been called Prince of Wales. This arose in the following way. Edward after his conquest of the country promised the Welsh that he would give them a prince born in their 'own country, and who could not speak a word of English. When the Welsh came to see their new Carnarvon Castle. prince, Edward showed them his...
Сторінка 40 - ... but the king was not satisfied, believing they had yet money concealed : he therefore ordered them to be tortured until they would acknowledge it. Some were deprived of an eye, and one in particular , from whom a sum of ten thousand marks was demanded, was treated with yet greater cruelty. The king ordered that one of his teeth should be pulled out every day till he paid the money. The Jew, not being disposed to reduce himself to poverty, resisted during a whole week, and thus lost seven of his...
Сторінка 93 - Sometimes people were taken ill, and do n. people com'-fort-atre-men'-doi fierce'-Zy died almost immediately. Others were forsaken by -all their friends and relations. In their agony and terror, the poor creatures flung themselves from their windows, or jumped into the river. 3. The houses where the plague was, were marked by a red cross on the doors, and the words,
Сторінка 19 - But he was not hard on the conquered Danes. He told them that they might stay in England if they would become Christians, and lead honest, peaceable lives.