Arthur Arundel: A Tale of the English Revolution, Том 3

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H. Colburn, 1844
 

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Сторінка 116 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Сторінка 271 - During this time, she took shelter under the walls of an old church at Lambeth ; turning her eyes, streaming with tears, sometimes on the Prince, unconscious of the miseries which attend upon Royalty, and who, upon that account, raised the greater compassion in her breast, and sometimes to the innumerable lights of the City, amidst the glimmerings of which, she in vain explored the Palace in which her husband was left, and started at every sound she heard from thence.
Сторінка 271 - Lausune, so famous for his own misfortunes, and by a few attendants, went privately from Whitehall. She crossed the Thames in an open boat, in a dark night, in a heavy rain, in a high wind, whilst the river was swollen, and at the coldest season of the year.
Сторінка 291 - THE constitution of England had now assumed a new aspect. The maxim of hereditary, indefeasible right was at length renounced by a free parliament. The power of the crown was acknowledged to flow from no other fountain than that of a contract with the people.
Сторінка 271 - Lauzune, so famous for his own misfortunes, and by a few attendants, went privately from Whitehall. She crossed the Thames in an open boat in a dark night, in a heavy rain, in a high wind, when the river was much swoln, and at the coldest period of the year.
Сторінка 109 - I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it,' I replied, 'You may take your own course ; I cannot stop you ; but I will keep myself clean from having any hand in this business,' and immediately went out of the room and never returned.
Сторінка 220 - Bring out shoes and put on his feet, and kill the fatted calf; and let us eat and be merry
Сторінка 278 - ... with that, fell a Searching their pockets and opening their breeches felt all about in a very rude manner, and the more, because they found nothing ; but at last one of them feeling about the King's Knees, got hould of the diamond bodkin, and cryd out he had found a prize, but the King faced him down he was in a mistake, that he had several things in his pocket, as sizers, a toothpick case and little Keys, and that perhaps it was one of those things he felt ; at which the man thrusting his hand...
Сторінка 194 - It has been said that no man is a hero to his valet ; and all the world saw as much of Louis the Fourteenth as his valet could see.
Сторінка 12 - I have always done, and nothing can happen which can make me change the fixed inclination and attachment which I have for your interests, and I...

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