The history of the life of king Henry the second, and of the age in which he lived. To which is prefixed, A history of the revolutions of England from the death of Edward the confessor to the birth of Henry the second. 3 vols. [and] Notes to the second and third (fourth and fifth) books, Հատորներ 4-5 |
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Էջ 404 - And by the fame way of computing, fix fhillings a quarter will be equivalent to what is now an exceeding high price, and may well be called a famine, viz. about eleven millings a bufhel.
Էջ 74 - Norman ; by forfeitures wrongfully taken j and laftly, by arbitrary and illegal taxations, he drew into his treaftiry much too great a proportion of the wealth of his kingdom. It muft however be owned, that if his avarice was infatiably and...
Էջ 457 - ... of William the Conqueror, their blood was fo mixed, and fo many families in all parts of England were the offspring of both. The city of London, where the greateft ftrength of the Englifh then lay, was well-affefted to Stephen, and continued to be fo till his death.
Էջ 142 - Charta were innovations extorted by the arms of rebels from King John ! a notion which feems to have been firft taken up, not fo much out of ignorance, as from a bafe...
Էջ 403 - Confessor till after the death of Henry the Second. What was the common or middle price of wheat in those days, I find no account in the contemporary authors.
Էջ 71 - ... dignity, and kept it always, as it were, on the throne. Through his whole life he had no partner of his bed but his queen : a...
Էջ 73 - Nor did he excel in those soothing and popular arts which sometimes change the complexion of a tyranny, and give it a fallacious appearance of freedom. His government was harsh and despotic, violating even the principles of that Constitution which he himself had established.
Էջ 72 - ... times — belief without examination, and devotion without piety. It was a religion that prompted him to endow...
Էջ 127 - ... of his courage, he furioufly advanced before his own troops, and charged into the midft of them. His horfe was killed under him, and the foldier, who had difmounted him, not knowing who he was, dragged him by the foot on the ground, and was going to flay him, if he had not...
Էջ 74 - ... to his ambition, and he laid up wealth in his coffers, as he did arms in his magazines, to be drawn out, when any proper occasion required it, for the defence and enlargement of his dominions.