A plain and short history of England for children;in letters from a father to his son, by the editor of the Cottager's monthly visitor1829 |
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... cruelty ; all these qualities evidently appear in the several in- cidents of his life . It is hard to say whether his conduct to his father , his brother , his nephew , or his subjects , was the worst . His dominions , when they came to ...
... cruelty ; all these qualities evidently appear in the several in- cidents of his life . It is hard to say whether his conduct to his father , his brother , his nephew , or his subjects , was the worst . His dominions , when they came to ...
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... but I never can think of him without calling to mind this horrible piece of cruelty . I cannot help feeling some of that indignation which must have glowed in the heart of our poet Gray , when he wrote the 58 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... but I never can think of him without calling to mind this horrible piece of cruelty . I cannot help feeling some of that indignation which must have glowed in the heart of our poet Gray , when he wrote the 58 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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England. soner . And here king Edward , again , shewed the cruelty of his disposition , for he ordered his brave enemy to be brought to London in chains , and then to be hanged , drawn , and quartered . Still , however , the Scots ...
England. soner . And here king Edward , again , shewed the cruelty of his disposition , for he ordered his brave enemy to be brought to London in chains , and then to be hanged , drawn , and quartered . Still , however , the Scots ...
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... cruelty and violence ? We are told that his person was very fine and comely , and that he was very tall , but that his legs were too long in proportion to his body . And thus he got the name of Longshanks . Ed- ward Longshanks ! What a ...
... cruelty and violence ? We are told that his person was very fine and comely , and that he was very tall , but that his legs were too long in proportion to his body . And thus he got the name of Longshanks . Ed- ward Longshanks ! What a ...
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... cruelty . They wished , if they could , to break his heart by their savage treatment . Besides many other cruelties , they shaved him in the open fields , using the dirty water from a neighbouring ditch . This insult is said to have ...
... cruelty . They wished , if they could , to break his heart by their savage treatment . Besides many other cruelties , they shaved him in the open fields , using the dirty water from a neighbouring ditch . This insult is said to have ...
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Page 90 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 89 - O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 90 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf 'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Page 185 - 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.
Page 184 - Mark, child! what I say: They will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: But mark what I say, thou must not be a king, as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them! And thy head too they will cut off at last! Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them!
Page 173 - I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow — this parliament, and yet they shall not see...
Page 149 - He expired at Greenwich, in the sixteenth year of his age, and the seventh of his reign.
Page 235 - Fabrice's arms, he never recovered. but expired about eleven o'clock the next morning, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and the thirteenth of his reign Questions for Examination, \ What was the conduct of the South Sea scheme ? 2 Explain the nature of it, 3.
Page 69 - Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace: Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king!
Page 134 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...