A New History of Great Britain: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time ...C. Law, 1803 - 455 страница |
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... died in the year 901 , and his character is fo completely amiable and heroic , that he is juftly dignified with the epithet of the Great . His civil and military qualifications equally claim our adıniration . In him the virtues were fo ...
... died in the year 901 , and his character is fo completely amiable and heroic , that he is juftly dignified with the epithet of the Great . His civil and military qualifications equally claim our adıniration . In him the virtues were fo ...
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... died in 941 . The reigns of his fucceffors , Edmund , Edred , and Edwy , were weak and inglorious . Edgar , who mounted the throne about the year 959 , revived the naval glory of England , and is faid to have been rowed down the river ...
... died in 941 . The reigns of his fucceffors , Edmund , Edred , and Edwy , were weak and inglorious . Edgar , who mounted the throne about the year 959 , revived the naval glory of England , and is faid to have been rowed down the river ...
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... died in the year 1035 . With Canute fell the glory of the Danes in England ; and at his death the torch of difcord , which had lighted up fo many woes to this country , began to burn with a more baleful luftre . Canute , though nursed ...
... died in the year 1035 . With Canute fell the glory of the Danes in England ; and at his death the torch of difcord , which had lighted up fo many woes to this country , began to burn with a more baleful luftre . Canute , though nursed ...
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... died Harold in defence of English liberty , against the ufurpation of foreign power . His death put a period to the Anglo - Saxon govern- ment , after it had continued above fix hundred from Hengift , the firft king of Kent . CHAP . II ...
... died Harold in defence of English liberty , against the ufurpation of foreign power . His death put a period to the Anglo - Saxon govern- ment , after it had continued above fix hundred from Hengift , the firft king of Kent . CHAP . II ...
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... died in 709 . Beda , or Bede , furnamed the venerable , though he never attained to any higher station in the church than that of a fimple monk , was the great luminary of England , and of the Christian world , in the eighteenth century ...
... died in 709 . Beda , or Bede , furnamed the venerable , though he never attained to any higher station in the church than that of a fimple monk , was the great luminary of England , and of the Christian world , in the eighteenth century ...
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Страница 376 - Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month; and Gay A week ; and Arbuthnot a day. St John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry I'm sorry; but we all must die.
Страница 390 - The excellence of this work is not exactness, but copiousness ; particular lines are not to be regarded ; the power is in the whole ; and in the whole there is a magnificence like that ascribed to Chinese plantation, the magnificence of vast extent and endless diversity.
Страница 254 - THE Lord descended from above, And bowed the heavens most high ; And underneath his feet he cast The darkness of the sky. 2 On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode ; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad.
Страница 394 - I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Страница 400 - ... collate manuscripts — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Страница 270 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Страница 379 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their letters, and that he who writes to his friends lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the "Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.
Страница 124 - Lever a cinq, diner a neuf, Souper a cinq, coucher a neuf, Fait vivre d'ans nonante et neuf.
Страница 153 - ... a coat, one half white, and the other half black or blue ; a long beard ; a silk hood buttoned under his chin, embroidered with grotesque figures of animals, dancing men, &c.
Страница 370 - I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson.