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... published , at 9s . 6d . each . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON , with considerable additions , embellished with a portrait , fac - similes , etc. in 4 vols . £ 1 . 12s . Oxford English Classics . THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND . VOLUME.
... published , at 9s . 6d . each . BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON , with considerable additions , embellished with a portrait , fac - similes , etc. in 4 vols . £ 1 . 12s . Oxford English Classics . THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND . VOLUME.
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... considerable a progress of the royalists , assembled an army of four thousand men in Yorkshire , and having joined sir William Brereton , was approaching to the camp of the enemy . Biron and his soldiers , elated with successes obtained ...
... considerable a progress of the royalists , assembled an army of four thousand men in Yorkshire , and having joined sir William Brereton , was approaching to the camp of the enemy . Biron and his soldiers , elated with successes obtained ...
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... considerable body of troops , was totally routed 11th April . at Selby by sir Thomas Fairfax , who had returned from Cheshire with his victorious forces . Afraid of being en- closed between two armies , Newcastle retreated ; and Leven ...
... considerable body of troops , was totally routed 11th April . at Selby by sir Thomas Fairfax , who had returned from Cheshire with his victorious forces . Afraid of being en- closed between two armies , Newcastle retreated ; and Leven ...
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... considerable town upon the seacoast . The utmost efforts of the king could not raise above ten thousand men at Oxford ; and on their sword chiefly , during the campaign , were these to depend for subsistence . The queen , terrified with ...
... considerable town upon the seacoast . The utmost efforts of the king could not raise above ten thousand men at Oxford ; and on their sword chiefly , during the campaign , were these to depend for subsistence . The queen , terrified with ...
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... considerable detach- ment to pass the bridge , with an intention of falling on the rear of the royalists . He was repulsed , routed , and pursued with considerable loss . Stunned and disheart- ened with this blow , his army decayed and ...
... considerable detach- ment to pass the bridge , with an intention of falling on the rear of the royalists . He was repulsed , routed , and pursued with considerable loss . Stunned and disheart- ened with this blow , his army decayed and ...
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Page 125 - Mark, child! what I say: They will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: But mark what I say, thou must not be a king, as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them! And thy head too they will cut off at last! Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them!
Page 198 - are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
Page 97 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Page 38 - Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced.
Page 405 - I know very well that you are at the bottom of this late attempt upon my father. But I give you warning, if...
Page 382 - Farewell, sun, moon, and stars ; farewell, world and time ; farewell, weak and frail body : welcome, eternity ; welcome, angels and saints ; welcome, Saviour of the world ; and welcome, God, the judge of all...
Page 193 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 65 - And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter ? have we eaten at all of the king's cost! or hath he given us any gift...
Page 57 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Page 253 - What can be more extraordinary, than that a person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness to succeed in, so improbable a design, as the destruction of one of the most ancient and...