The training school reader. [Ed.] by W.J. Unwin. 2nd book, division 1William Jordan Unwin 1853 |
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William Jordan Unwin. Service , and with the revenue thus procured he maintained an army of mercenaries . Geoffrey , his younger brother , claimed Anjou ; Henry forced him to relinquish it for a pension . The regency of Brittany next ...
William Jordan Unwin. Service , and with the revenue thus procured he maintained an army of mercenaries . Geoffrey , his younger brother , claimed Anjou ; Henry forced him to relinquish it for a pension . The regency of Brittany next ...
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... army soon after his accession . Achieving the conquest of the island of Cyprus on his way , he reached Syria , and joined the king of France at the siege of Acre , which they reduced , and entered as conquerors in 1191. This was their ...
... army soon after his accession . Achieving the conquest of the island of Cyprus on his way , he reached Syria , and joined the king of France at the siege of Acre , which they reduced , and entered as conquerors in 1191. This was their ...
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... army of the barons contained two thousand knights , and armed men in proportion . The hostile parties met at Runnymede , on the banks of the Thames , and here was wrested from the unwil- ling and faithless monarch , that Charter which ...
... army of the barons contained two thousand knights , and armed men in proportion . The hostile parties met at Runnymede , on the banks of the Thames , and here was wrested from the unwil- ling and faithless monarch , that Charter which ...
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... army to obtain it . Great numbers of the nobility and common people flocked to his standard , and his success was only prevented by the sudden death of the tyrant at Newark , A.D. 1216 . After the death of John , his son , a child of ...
... army to obtain it . Great numbers of the nobility and common people flocked to his standard , and his success was only prevented by the sudden death of the tyrant at Newark , A.D. 1216 . After the death of John , his son , a child of ...
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... army , and prepared to enter . Scotland ; but his illness increasing , he died at a village near Carlisle , in 1307 . There can scarcely be a greater contrast than is found in the characters and reigns of the 1st and 2nd Edwards . The ...
... army , and prepared to enter . Scotland ; but his illness increasing , he died at a village near Carlisle , in 1307 . There can scarcely be a greater contrast than is found in the characters and reigns of the 1st and 2nd Edwards . The ...
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Страница 105 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Страница 22 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Страница 8 - I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer I had before given — that, for anything I knew, the watch might have been always there.
Страница 40 - Excelsior! ,O stay,' the maiden said, ,and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!' A tear stood in his bright blue eye, But still he answered with a sigh, Excelsior! ,Beware the pine-tree's withered branch! Beware the awful avalanche!
Страница 76 - Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven.
Страница 66 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low, the woods Bow their hoar head ; and, ere the languid Sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Страница 58 - See Salem built, the labour of a God ! Bright as a sun the sacred city shines ; All kingdoms and all princes of the earth Flock to that light ; the glory of all lands Flows into her ; unbounded is her joy, . And endless her increase.
Страница 39 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Страница 77 - How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God.
Страница 9 - ... the watch must have had a maker ; that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.