| 1909 - 740 páginas
...characteristic of the writer and of her notions of the prerogative to be omitted. It ia in these words : — Proud Prelate. I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement ; but I would have you know that 1, who made you what you are, can unmake you, and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 páginas
...the way of the arrangement, that Elizabeth addressed to him the following well-known epistle : — " PROUD PRELATE, " I understand you are backward in...complying with your agreement, but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 páginas
...Church. How powerfully does the spirit of bluff king Hal speak by the pen of his genuine daughter ! " 'Proud Prelate— I understand you are backward in...have you to know that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your agreement, by — — • I will immediately... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 páginas
...first promising to do so, and then pleading scruples of conscience, she sent him this reprimand : " Proud Prelate ! I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement, but I would have you know, that I who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 páginas
...first promising to do so, and then pleading scruples of conscience, she sent him this reprimand: " Proud Prelate ! I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement, but I would have you know, that I who made you what you are, can unmake you; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
| James H. MACCULLOH - 1852 - 532 páginas
...the lands of that see to Sir Christopher Hntton, Queen Elizabeth addressed him the following letter: "Proud Prelate,— I understand you are backward in...have you to know that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you, and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will unfrock you. " Yours... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 526 páginas
...a profane phraseology to which she was addicted, and of her peremptory and imperious style : — " Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement ; but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
| 1853 - 860 páginas
...imperious dame, true daughter of Henry VIII., could write as Head of the Church to her servile bishops : " Proud Prelate, — I understand you are backward in...complying with your agreement ; but I would have you know, that I who made you what you are,, can unmake you, and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagements... | |
| David Hume - 1854 - 618 páginas
...queen's written to a bishop of Ely, and preserved in the register of that see. It is in these words : " Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
| David Hume - 1854 - 610 páginas
...queen's written to a bishop of Ely, and preserved in the register of that see. It is in these words : " Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement,... | |
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