Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, Part 3 |
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15th century 2nd century Abbey Abbot afterwards Archbishop autograph battle Bede belonged bequest Bible Bishop book hand Cędmon Canterbury Caroline minuscule Charles charters Christ Chronicle Church coloured contains copy Cotton cursive hand Dated Duke Earl earliest early 15th century Edward Edward III Egerton Egypt England English Epistles examples exhibited extant Facsimile FOUR GOSPELS French George Grant Greek Grenville Library half-uncial Harl Harley Ch Hebrew Henry II Henry VIII Holograph illuminated initials illustrate John King King's land late Latin vulgate version Letter literary Lord Manuscripts Merovingian miniatures monastery monk Norman original papyrus Peshitto poems Prince probably prose Psalter Queen Richard Robert Roman Roman cursive Royal rustic capitals script seal Septuagint shown signature specimens style Testament Thomas translation uncial uncial hand Vellum verse Vespasian Virgin William Witnesses writing Written in France Written in Italy Written in minuscules Wycliffite
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Page 53 - I have little hope that the propounders and framers of these innovations will desist from their insidious course. But I rely with confidence on the people of England ; and I will not bate a jot of heart or hope, so long as the glorious principles and the immortal martyrs of the Reformation shall be held in reverence by the great mass of a nation which looks with contempt on the mummeries of superstition, and with scorn at the laborious endeavours which are now making to confine the intellect and...
Page 53 - There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than any aggression of a foreign sovereign. Clergymen of our own church, who have subscribed the Thirtynine Articles, and acknowledged in explicit terms the Queen's supremacy, have been the most forward in leading their flocks, ' step by step, to the very verge of the precipice.
Page 18 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 70 - Tis not yet Consumption I believe, but it would be were I to remain in this climate all the Winter: so I am thinking of either voyageing or travelling to Italy. Yesterday I received an invitation from Mr Shelley, a Gentleman residing at Pisa, to spend the Winter with him: if I go I must be away in a Month or even less.
Page 70 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 66 - I set between an easy fortune and a small one. It is indeed a high strain of generosity in you to think of making me easy all my life, only because I have been so happy as to divert you some few hours...
Page 70 - Untrod is their home; by wolf-cliffs haunt they and windy headlands, fenways fearful, where flows the stream from mountains gliding to gloom of the rocks, underground flood. Not far is it hence in measure of miles that the mere expands, and o'er it the frost-bound forest hanging, sturdily rooted, shadows the wave. By night is a wonder weird to see, fire on the waters.
Page 70 - Norman kings was the court in which the whole financial business of the country was transacted, and as the whole administration of justice, and even the military organisation, was dependent upon the fiscal officers, the whole framework of society may be said to have passed annually under its review. It derived its name from the chequered cloth which covered the table at which the accounts were taken...
Page 70 - Mathusael, who, as we reade in the Scriptures, was the longeste liver that was of a manne, died at the laste : for as the precher sayethe, there is a tyme to be borne, and a tyme to dye ; and the daye of deathe is better than the daye of our birthe. Youres, as the Lord knowethe, as a frende, "JANE DUDDELEY.
Page 40 - Your lordship doth well understand my affection toward Spain, and how I have consumed the best part of my fortune...