The History of Great Britain: From the First Invasion of it by the Romans Under Julius Caesar. Written on a New Plan, Volume 10Cadell and Davies, 1814 - Great Britain |
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Page 90 - A king of England cannot at his pleasure make any alterations in the laws of the land, for the nature of his government is not only regal, but political.
Page 218 - The friars of the order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives...
Page 221 - Vnto impnis of my maisteris dere, Gowere and Chaucere, that on the steppis satt Of rethorike, quhill thai were lyvand here, Superlatiue as poetis laureate, In moralitee and eloquence ornate, I recommend my buk in lynis seven, And eke thair saulis vnto the blisse of hevin.
Page 146 - AD 1405., and there kept a clofe prifoner till June 10., AD 1407., when he was removed to the caftle of Nottingham, from whence he was brought back to the Tower, March i., AD 1414., - ^ and there confined till Auguft 3. in the fame year, when he was conveyed to the caftle of Windfor, where he was detained till the fummer of AD 1417; when Henry V., for political reafons, carried him with him into France in his fecond expedition21.
Page 324 - ... dressed in different ways, according to the fashion of the times. The sideboards were plentifully furnished with ale, beer, and wines, which were handed to the company when called for, in pewter and wooden cups, by the mareschaJs, groems, yeomen, and waiters of .the chamber, ranged in regular order.
Page 299 - Then, turning her eyes towards the two earls, she said, I know that you English are determined to put me to death, and imagine that after I am dead, you will conquer France. But though there were an 100,000 G — Dam'mees more in France than there are, they will never conquer that kingdom.
Page 237 - We may reckon among us moderns, James, king of Scotland, who not only composed many sacred pieces of vocal music ; but also of himself invented a new kind of music, plaintive and melancholy, different from all other, in which he hath been imitated by Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, who, in our age, hath improved music with new and admirable inventions.
Page 119 - ... to take them to a well, to put one into the one bucket, and the other into the other bucket, and let them down alternately into the water, and to continue that exercife till each of them had made a couplet of verles on his bucket.
Page 149 - Worcefterwas greatly diftinguiflaed among the nobility of his time, by his genius and love of learning. He fucceeded to the great eftates of his family, by the death of his father John Lord Tiptoft...
Page 121 - None but great kings, princes, and prelates, universities and monasteries, could have libraries ; and the libraries of the greatest kings were not equal to those of many private gentlemen or country clergymen in the present age.