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... present day his reign will offer little worthy of praise , unless it be the severity with which he punished offences . This was a real benefit to his people , as it not only contributed to extirpate the robbers by profession , but also ...
... present day his reign will offer little worthy of praise , unless it be the severity with which he punished offences . This was a real benefit to his people , as it not only contributed to extirpate the robbers by profession , but also ...
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... present , and remonstrated against so direful a punish- ment . It was not , he observed , the custom of civilized nations to inflict bodily punishment on knights who had drawn the sword in the service of their lord . " It is not ...
... present , and remonstrated against so direful a punish- ment . It was not , he observed , the custom of civilized nations to inflict bodily punishment on knights who had drawn the sword in the service of their lord . " It is not ...
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... present difficulty . Rash , arrogant , perfidious , irreligious , unquiet , he made a tolerable head of a party , but a bad king ; and had talents fit to disturb another's government , not to support his own . A most striking contrast ...
... present difficulty . Rash , arrogant , perfidious , irreligious , unquiet , he made a tolerable head of a party , but a bad king ; and had talents fit to disturb another's government , not to support his own . A most striking contrast ...
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... present of ten thousand marks from an opulent Jew at Bristol , and ordered one of his teeth to be drawn every morning till he should pay the money . The Jew was obstinate . The executioners began with his double teeth . He suffered the ...
... present of ten thousand marks from an opulent Jew at Bristol , and ordered one of his teeth to be drawn every morning till he should pay the money . The Jew was obstinate . The executioners began with his double teeth . He suffered the ...
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... present established . His sentiments , like those of his instructors , were tinged with Calvinism : attempts were made to persuade him that episcopacy was an expensive and unneces- sary institution ; and the courtiers , whose appe- tite ...
... present established . His sentiments , like those of his instructors , were tinged with Calvinism : attempts were made to persuade him that episcopacy was an expensive and unneces- sary institution ; and the courtiers , whose appe- tite ...
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Página 285 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Página 169 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them....
Página 216 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested.
Página 275 - He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.
Página 96 - Without doubt, no man with more wickedness ever attempted any thing, or brought to pass what he desired more wickedly, more in the face and contempt of religion and moral honesty : yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit, an admirable circumspection and sagacity, and a most magnanimous resolution.
Página 36 - Had he been a private man, he would have been termed proud. But in a wise Prince, it was but keeping of distance, which indeed he did towards all; not admitting any near or full approach, either to his power, or to his secrets, for he was governed by none.
Página 168 - Afterwards, he retired to a more reserved and melancholy society, yet preserving his own natural cheerfulness and vivacity, and above all, a flowing courtesy to all men...
Página 92 - And if he were not the best king, if he were without some parts and qualities which have made some kings great and happy, no other prince was ever unhappy who was possessed of half his virtues and endowments, and so much without any kind of vice.
Página 275 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning...
Página 127 - His parts, though not excellent, will be found very tolerable, if ever they are properly exercised. ' He is strictly honest, but wants that frank and open behaviour, which makes honesty appear amiable.