Facts and features of English history, a series of alternating reading and memory exercises |
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Términos y frases comunes
A.D. MEMORY EXERCISE afterwards alliance appointed April Archbishop army barons battle Becket Bill Bishop Born A.D. British Canute captured Castle Catherine Chancellor Charles Charles II council court Cromwell crown daughter Death declared defeated died Duke of York Dutch Earl Earl of Warwick Edmund Edward Edward III Edward IV Elizabeth Emperor England English executed favour fleet forces France French George George III Gloucester Henry VIII House House of Lords India invades Ireland James John John of Gaunt July June king king's kingdom Lady Jane Grey lands London Lord Louis March Margaret Marlborough marriage marries Mary Matilda ment minister ministry nation Parliament parliamentary passed peace Philip Pitt Plantagenet Pope Prince Queen READING LESSON reform reign restored retires Richard Richard II royal Saxon Scotland Scots Sept sovereign Spain Stuart taken prisoner throne tion Tower treaty victory Wales Walpole Warwick William Wolsey
Pasajes populares
Página 235 - That God and nature put into our hands!" I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature, but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalpingknife...
Página 236 - I conjure them to join in the holy work, and vindicate the religion of their God. I appeal to the wisdom and the law of this learned bench, to defend and support the justice of their country.
Página 236 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Página 236 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Página 223 - The situation which Pitt occupied at the close of the reign of George the Second was the most enviable ever occupied by any public man in English history. He had conciliated the King ; he domineered over the House of Commons ; he was adored by the people; he was admired by all Europe. He was the first Englishman of his time ; and he had made England the first country in the world.
Página 236 - I solemnly call upon your Lordships, and upon every order of men in the state, to stamp upon this infamous procedure, the indelible stigma of the public abhorrence.
Página 235 - But, my lords, who is the man, that, in addition to the disgraces and mischiefs of the war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the savage; to call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman inhabitant of the woods...
Página 234 - America is an impossibility. You cannot, my lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there? We do not know the worst ; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much.
Página 27 - And now, therefore, be it known to you all, that I have dedicated my life to God, to govern my kingdoms with justice, and to observe the right in all things.
Página 58 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.