child apos s history of england

... XXXVII A Child' s History of England A Child' s History of England **The Project Gutenberg Etext of A Child' s History of England* * #11 in our series by Charles Dickens Copyright laws are changing ... burial-places of heaps of Britons, are to be seen in almost all parts of the country Across the bleak moors of Northumberland, the wall of SEVERUS, overrun with moss and weeds, still stretches, a strong ... Normans out of their country Some of those who had been dispossessed of their lands, banded together in the North of England; some, in Scotland; some, in the thick woods and marshes; and whensoever...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20

... it; to be less and less chivalrous to women, less and less respectful to old men, less and less ashamed of boasting about their sensual appetites; in a word, to show all those symptoms which, when ... appear to us as no mere bodiless and soulless names, but as beings of like passions with ourselves, comprehensible, coherent, organic, even in their inconsistencies Catherine of Arragon is still the ... Froude shows at once his strength and his weakness; his deep sense of the rottenness of the Church; his purpose to purge her from those abominations which were as well known, it seems, to him as they...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... enemies, and left hopes of favor to his most violent opponents From the whole tenor of his actions and discourse, he seemed desirous of losing the memory of past animosities, and of uniting every ... court of justice were disabled from bearing offices These were all the severities which followed such furious civil wars and convulsions The next business was the settlement of the king s revenue ... limitations to monarchy, and of all privileges in the subject, independent of the will of the sovereign For as no rights can subsist without some remedy, still less rights exposed to so much invasion...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... his country Under his leadership the Britons fought so well that they soon drove the Saxons away Horsa was killed in one of the battles, and soon afterwards Hengist and most of his soldiers took ... swords too were strong and sharp, while those of the Britons were made of copper Copper is a very soft metal, and swords made of it are easily bent and so made useless The Britons at this time were ... islanders He sailed away again in such of his ships as had not been destroyed For fierce storms had arisen a few days after his landing and wrecked many of his vessels CHAPTER C¾sar did not gain...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 08:20

... lawful issue of such Marriages and of the fact of the Marriages of many of their Children and Grandchildren and of the names of the issue of such marriages and of the deaths of many of the persons ... Neatherlands, Embden, Geneva, &c whose reformation is cut, or shapen much nerer y^e first Christian churches, as it was used in y^e Apostles times.[J] [6] So many therfore of these proffessors as saw ... end of his official service, comes to Massachusetts on an interesting errand He comes to deliver to the lineal successor of Governor Bradford, in the presence of the representatives and rulers of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... Dunkirk Cromwell 's greatness His poverty His fear of assassination His grief for his daughter 's death His sickness His conviction of his recovery His danger His discourse His death His character CHAPTER ... Acquiescence of the different armies Dissension between parliament and the officers The officers obliged to accept new commissions Projects of the royalists Rising in Cheshire It is suppressed ... Favour Of The King Scots Arm In His Defence The Royalists Renew The War The Presbyterians Assume The Ascendancy Defeat Of The Scots Suppression Of The Royalists Treaty Of Newport The King Is Again...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... manifested itself, cavalcades of gentlemen and yeomen, processions of Sheriffs and Bailiffs in scarlet gowns, musters of zealous Protestants with orange flags and ribands, salutes, bonfires, illuminations, ... great risk of treachery If he employed men of both parties, there was still some risk of mistakes; there was still some risk of treachery; and to these risks was added the certainty of dissension ... less sagacious observer of human affairs For it is to be chiefly ascribed to a law as certain as the laws which regulate the succession of the seasons and the course of the trade winds It is...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... illustrious houses of Brunswick, of Saxony, of Holstein, and of Nassau The Marquess of Gastanaga, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, repaired to the assembly from the viceregal Court of Brussels ... presents of shawls and silks, birds' nests and atar of roses, bulses of diamonds and bags of guineas.166 Of what the Dictator expended no account was asked by his colleagues; and in truth he seems ... It is made up of boasts, reproaches and sneers The Admiral, with ironical professions of humility and loyalty, begins by asking permission to put his wrongs on paper, because his bashfulness would...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... subject of discussion Plausible topics were not wanting to the supporters of either cause The partisans of the House of Austria dwelt on the sacredness of treaties; the partisans of France on the sacredness ... on the division He lived in a region of coffeehouses, of booksellers' shops, of clubs, of pamphlets, of newspapers, of theatres where poignant allusions to the most exciting questions of the day ... dignitaries of his household, the physicians who ministered to his diseased body, the divines whose business was to soothe his not less diseased mind, the very wife who should have been intent on those...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... general disposition towards military enterprises; and who still maintained, even amidst the shock of arms, those secret links, without which it is impossible for human society to subsist Notwithstanding ... merits of the person or of the cause; and besides the usual perversions of right in the decision of controversies, the pope openly assumed an absolute and uncontrolled authority of setting aside, ... dispossess him of his Italian dominions, still continued hostilities against his grandson; but being disappointed in all his schemes by the activity and artifices of Mainfroy, he found that his...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... intelligence is so rapidly diffused by means of the press and of the post office that any gross act of oppression committed in any part of our island is, in a few hours, discussed by millions If the sovereign ... paintings of Apelles, and where laborious pedants, themselves destitute of taste, sense, and spirit, could still read and interpret the masterpieces of Sophocles, of Demosthenes, and of Plato ... capacities His Highness must have lieutenants As he appointed civil officers to keep his seal, to collect his revenues, and to dispense justice in his name, so he appointed divines of various ranks...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... less strong was the hostility of the monastic orders which is often expressed in Matthew Paris 's free-spoken abuse of them They were accused of terrorising dying men out of their possessions, of ... 1322 Accession of Charles IV 1324 Affair of Saint-Sardos Renewal of war Sequestration of Gascony Charles of Valois' conquest of the Agenais and La Réole Isabella 's mission to Paris Edward of Aquitaine 's ... interests of his wife and stepson Savary de Mauléon, who in despair of his old master 's success had crossed over to Poitou before John 's death, was made warden of the castle of Bristol Randolph of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... some years But, alas! he was soon assassinated by one of his own officers before he could call for help, and the assassin succeeded him In those days assassination and inauguration seemed to ... to have his luggage sent up to the castle James also presented his sister Catherine as a spouse to the giddy young scion of the Flemish calico counter James also assisted Perkin, his new brother-in-law, ... his cousin Henry, and dispossessed him of his estates This, of course, irritated Henry, who entered England while the king was in Ireland, and his forces were soon joined by sixty thousand malecontents...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... originals so injured, and so hard to decipher, linger the spirits of that long-past age Especial attention is due to the almost complete series of pamphlets of the time, which the Museum possesses As ... appears, despite of Christianity and monastic discipline, in its most atrocious form after the death of Edgar His eldest son, for some years his successor, was treacherously murdered by his stepmother ... ecclesiastical aristocracy was besides determined by religious considerations; to them these disasters and crimes seemed sufficient proof of the truth of those prophecies of coming woe which Dunstan was believed...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... garrisons from the castles of his own fiefs, but to seize the castles of his neighbours which he had reason to desire, and some of these he destroyed and some he held for himself This action is ... at least asked to be dismissed The country through which they must pass was still largely wilderness Hills and forests, swollen streams and winter storms, must be encountered, and the strife ... has left to us at least no traces of any resistance Chester was occupied without opposition Fortified posts were established and garrisons left there and at Stafford Some things make us suspect...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... their heirs; the abbots, priors, and governors of the said houses, and certain aliens their superiors, as the abbots and priors of the Cistercians, the Premonstrants, the orders of Saint Augustine ... the depositions against the martyrs, and the lists of their crimes against the established faith, we find no opposite schemes of doctrine, no "plans of salvation;" no positive system of theology ... their rest was broken by a ruder storm [Sidenote: The early history of Protestantism is the history of its martyrs and confessors,] [Sidenote: And its evidences, their endurance and suffering.]...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... exclusion of other principles of succession James was not content to ascribe his accession to such mundane circumstances as the personal unfitness of his rivals and the obvious advantages of a ... Earl of Ulster in the right of his wife; John of Gaunt married the heiress of Lancaster and became Duke of Lancaster; Thomas of Woodstock married the heiress of the Bohuns, Earls of Essex and of ... traced in the names of English kingdoms and shires: in the south the Saxons founded the kingdoms of Sussex, Essex, Middlesex, and Wessex; in the east the Anglians founded East Anglia, though...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... the classification of cubic surfaces, a subject already discussed by Schl¨fli He also contributed to the theory a of scrolls (skew-ruled surfaces), orthogonal systems of surfaces, the wave surface, ... certain of Cauchy s conclusions, and gave 2! a completely scientific summation of the series for complex values of m and x He was emphatic against the reckless use of series, and showed the necessity ... investigated as the result of physical considerations at the same time that Gauss, Abel, and Cauchy were working out the theory of infinite series Series for the expansion of sines and cosines, of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... great president' so I guess he 's almost a giant I guess the president is as big as the meeting-house, and prob'ly the vice-president is the size of the school-house." The school-teacher sisters were ... to tie strings from the seats of the bakery-wagons to the posts of high stoops and watch these strings knock off hats as men hurried by Sundays were gala days If the sun shone, all the boys in ... to stay down at the wharves when the Portland vessels came in It was sport to watch the burly negroes unload the hogsheads of molasses, the barrels of sugar, and the spices The boys used to wish...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20