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... Oxford , the retainers of that nobleman were drawn up in two lines , and presented a magnificent ap- pearance . The king exalted the earl's hospitality , suggesting , that the gentlemen and yeomen who appeared before him were , of ...
... Oxford , the retainers of that nobleman were drawn up in two lines , and presented a magnificent ap- pearance . The king exalted the earl's hospitality , suggesting , that the gentlemen and yeomen who appeared before him were , of ...
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... Oxford , as lord - high- steward , which was carried into execution a few days afterwards . Thus perished the last male of the Plantagenets , who had reigned over England for nearly four hundred years . The public voice , as we have ...
... Oxford , as lord - high- steward , which was carried into execution a few days afterwards . Thus perished the last male of the Plantagenets , who had reigned over England for nearly four hundred years . The public voice , as we have ...
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... Oxford , and afterwards removed to Gray's inn , where he attained to such distinguished professional emi- nence and general reputation that he was introduced to the king's privy council in his 23d year . In 1492 , he was employed in ...
... Oxford , and afterwards removed to Gray's inn , where he attained to such distinguished professional emi- nence and general reputation that he was introduced to the king's privy council in his 23d year . In 1492 , he was employed in ...
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... Oxford , where he obtained the degree of bachelor - in - arts at the early age of fifteen . To quickness of apprehension , the young Wolsey added considerable per- sonal qualifications . Shakspeare says of him , that " he was fashioned ...
... Oxford , where he obtained the degree of bachelor - in - arts at the early age of fifteen . To quickness of apprehension , the young Wolsey added considerable per- sonal qualifications . Shakspeare says of him , that " he was fashioned ...
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... Oxford ; and extended his patronage generally to the universities and places of pub- lic instruction throughout England . He also bestowed the most minute and sedulous attention on the education of the duke of Richmond , Henry's natural ...
... Oxford ; and extended his patronage generally to the universities and places of pub- lic instruction throughout England . He also bestowed the most minute and sedulous attention on the education of the duke of Richmond , Henry's natural ...
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Página 299 - And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 300 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 300 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Página 299 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 300 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us.
Página 300 - We can grow ignorant again, brutish, formal and slavish, as ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary and tyrannous, as they were from whom ye have freed us. That our hearts are now more capacious, our thoughts more erected to the search and expectation of greatest and exactest things...
Página 56 - I nothing malign for that you have done to me, but the eternal God forgive you my death, as I do; I shall never sue to the king for life, howbeit he is a gracious prince, and more grace may come from him than I desire. I desire you, my lords, and all my fellows to pray for me.
Página 219 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations, and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...
Página 293 - Yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries, as if, while the temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irrational men who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built.
Página 300 - Believe it, Lords and Commons, they who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves; and I will soon show how. If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild, and free, and...