 | Early English newspapers - 1805 - 756 pages
...here'by Henry VI. engraved, and the monumcnt' of Sir Ralph Pud fay, from HO extraordinary drawings. "In an age when the habits of the Great, in peace as well as war, required perpetual exertions of -bodily ftrensth, this unhappy prince mull. have been equally con* Patron, Thomas Lord Ros, attainted l Edward... | |
 | John Roby - Lancashire (England) - 1831 - 408 pages
...The hands are exactly proportioned to the feet, and not larger than those of a middle-sized woman. In an age when the habits of the great, in peace as well...contemptible from corporeal and from mental imbecility.* A well adjoining to Bolton Hall still retains his name. He is said to have ordered it to be dug and... | |
 | John Warkworth - Great Britain - 1839 - 118 pages
...boot, a glove, and a spoon ; figures of which are engraved in the Gentleman's Magazine for June 1785, and again in the History of Craven, p. 106. The boot...corporeal and from mental imbecility." — JGN P. 5, /. 7, 8. — His lege bownde to the styrope. One author, and as far as I have been able to find he... | |
 | John Warkworth - Great Britain - 1839 - 122 pages
...Craven, p. 106. The boot and glove are remarkably small, and show, in Dr. Whitaker's words, that " in an age when the habits of the great, in peace as well...the styrope. One author, and as far as I have been able to find he is the only authority for it, says.that Henry was immediately cast into chains. —... | |
 | John Warkworth - Great Britain - 1839 - 118 pages
...Craven, p. 106. The boot and glove are remarkably small, and show, in Dr. Whitaker's words, that " in an age when the habits of the great, in peace as well...corporeal and from mental imbecility." — JGN P. 5, /. 7, 8. — His kge bownde to the. styrope. One author, and as far as I have been able to find he... | |
 | English essays - 1841 - 962 pages
...the feet, and not larger than those of a middle-sized woman : (Dr. Whitaker adds the remark that) in an age when the habits of the great, in peace as well...contemptible, from corporeal and from mental imbecility." The* manor house, understood to have been built in the fourteenth century, has undergone various alterations... | |
 | William Dobson - Lancashire (England) - 1864 - 400 pages
...hands are exactly proportioned to the feet, and not larger than, those of a middle-sized woman. In an age when the habits of the great, in peace as well...contemptible, from corporeal and from mental imbecility. Yet I do not recollect that any historian mentions this circumstance."* Having seen tlie most interesting... | |
 | Mary Ann Hookham - 1872 - 476 pages
...woman.f It has been remarked that "in an age when the habits of the great, in peace " as well as in war, required perpetual exertions of " bodily strength,...contemptible from corporeal and from " mental imbecility." His enemies probably thus regarded him ; but if this were the case, how much more does it argue in... | |
 | Mary Ann Hookham - 1872 - 476 pages
...proportioned to the feet, and not larger than those of a middle-sized woman.f It has been remarked that " in an age when the habits of the great, in peace " as well as in war, required perpetual exertions of "bodily strength, this unhappy Prince must have " been equally... | |
 | John Roby - 1879 - 534 pages
...The hands are exactly proportioned to the feet, and not larger than those of a middle-sized woman. In an age when the habits of the great, in peace as well...contemptible from corporeal and from mental imbecility.* It is rot generally recorded that the science of alchemy was much encouraged by the royal visionary.... | |
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in an age when the habits of the great, in peace as well as war, required perpetual exertions of bodily strength, this unhappy prince must have been equally contemptible from corporeal and from mental imbecility. 
