English History for AmericansLongmans, Green, and Company, 1894 - 334 pages |
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Page 173 - You must get men of a spirit ; and take it not ill what I say, — I know you will not, — of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go : — or else you will be beaten still.
Page 179 - That it was our duty, if ever the Lord brought us back again in peace, to call Charles Stuart, that man of blood, to an account for that blood he had shed, and mischief he had done to his utmost, against the Lord's Cause and People in these poor Nations.
Page 176 - I do conceive if the Army be not put into another method, and the war more vigorously prosecuted, the people can bear the war no longer, and will enforce you to a dishonourable peace.
Page 117 - Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 199 - The old fool," said the kind-hearted Charles II., with truth, " has taken away more lives in that naked country, than I, for the murder of my father.
Page 156 - There is a command laid upon me to interrupt any that should go about to lay an aspersion on the ministers of state.
Page 212 - And shall Trelawney die, and shall Trelawney die ? Then thirty thousand Cornish boys will know the reason why.
Page 169 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 277 - Where, taming thought to human pride, The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, " Here let their discord with them die.
Page v - English annals which have had the most direct influence on the history and institutions of their own land. . . . The authors of this book have therefore boldly ventured to modify in their narrative the accustomed scale of proportion ; while it has been their wish, in the treatment of every detail, to accept the best result of modern English investigation, and especially to avoid all unfair or one-sided judgments.