A smaller history of England. (By P. Smith). Ed. by W. Smith. 9th thous

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Página 130 - Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short. Take heed therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.
Página 212 - There is, sir, but one stage more, which though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. Consider, it will soon carry you a great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory." "I go," replied the king, "from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown; where no disturbance can have place.
Página 223 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 202 - I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, as made some conscience of what they did, and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy they beat continually.
Página 203 - Behold now this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation : others as...
Página 111 - For profit, it was to be made two ways ; upon his subjects for the war, and upon his enemies for the peace ; like a good merchant that maketh his gain both upon the commodities exported and imported back again.
Página 264 - August 1, she expired at Kensington, in the fiftieth year of her age, and the thirteenth of her reign. Her easy temper and her faultless domestic life gained her the epithet of "the good Queen Anne.
Página 123 - For I assure you I have often kneeled before him in his privy chamber...
Página 174 - March 24, 1603, in the 70th year of her age and the 45th of her reign.
Página 130 - I will not meddle with any such matters, for I am fully determined to serve God and to think upon His passion, and my passage out of this...

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