A brief survey of British history |
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... in order to defeat Fox's India Bill , the king made Lord Temple show to each peer a card on which he 1783 . had written the message that “ whoever voted for the India Bill was not only not his friend , but would be considered by him ...
... in order to defeat Fox's India Bill , the king made Lord Temple show to each peer a card on which he 1783 . had written the message that “ whoever voted for the India Bill was not only not his friend , but would be considered by him ...
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Էջ 220 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. "Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke, Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Էջ 127 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too...
Էջ 108 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell.
Էջ 102 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Էջ 111 - Is it so?" reflecting on the alliance which had placed the Stewart family on the throne; "then God's will be done. It came with a lass, and it will go with a lass.
Էջ 27 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Էջ 173 - Stuart is come over to claim the crown of his ancestors, to win it, or to perish in the attempt; Lochiel, who, my father has often told me, was our firmest friend, may stay at home, and learn from the newspapers the fate of his prince...
Էջ 105 - Scotland is killed by the bursting of a cannon at the siege of Roxburgh, Aug.
Էջ 117 - It is my earnest request that your majesty will send for me as soon as possible, for my condition is pitiable, not to say for a queen, but even for a simple gentlewoman. I have no other dress than that in which I escaped from the field ; my first day's ride was sixty miles across the country, and I have not since dared to travel except by night.
Էջ 102 - God's word, for all their craft and force, One moment will not linger, But, spite of hell, shall have its course; 'Tis written by his finger. And, though they take our life, Goods, honour, children, wife, Yet is their profit small; These things shall vanish all: The city of God remaineth.
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| Վերնագիր | A brief survey of British history |
| Հեղինակ | George Townsend Warner |
| Հրատարակիչ | Blackie & Son, 1899 |
| Original from | Օքսֆորդի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 9 Հունվար 2008 |
| Length | 277 էջ |
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