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... England is more rich in historical associations than its midland counties . Though neither statues nor obelisks mark the spots where our ancestors struggled for freedom or for truth , the scenes are sacred ; and Bucking- B hamshire ...
... England is more rich in historical associations than its midland counties . Though neither statues nor obelisks mark the spots where our ancestors struggled for freedom or for truth , the scenes are sacred ; and Bucking- B hamshire ...
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... England . Not far distant is Leices- ter , where Richard III . buckled on his armour for the battle of Bosworth , -a conflict which delivered the country from a cruel tyrant and a disputed succession ; and which , ending the wars of the ...
... England . Not far distant is Leices- ter , where Richard III . buckled on his armour for the battle of Bosworth , -a conflict which delivered the country from a cruel tyrant and a disputed succession ; and which , ending the wars of the ...
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... England , settled at Oxford . But in the course of a few years , their disorders and encroachments had so enormously increased , as to reduce the number of university students from 30,000 to 6000. Parents feared to send their children ...
... England , settled at Oxford . But in the course of a few years , their disorders and encroachments had so enormously increased , as to reduce the number of university students from 30,000 to 6000. Parents feared to send their children ...
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... England had already passed over to the church , had demanded of Edward III . the tribute promised by King John in token of his feudal sub- jection to the successors of St. Peter . But the demand came a day too late , and the House of ...
... England had already passed over to the church , had demanded of Edward III . the tribute promised by King John in token of his feudal sub- jection to the successors of St. Peter . But the demand came a day too late , and the House of ...
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... England . On their arrival at St. Paul's , they met an excited crowd . The Duke of Lancaster was suspected to be hostile to the liberties of the city of London , and was extremely unpopular amongst its inhabitants , and the ...
... England . On their arrival at St. Paul's , they met an excited crowd . The Duke of Lancaster was suspected to be hostile to the liberties of the city of London , and was extremely unpopular amongst its inhabitants , and the ...
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Page 66 - I charge you before God and His blessed angels that you follow me no further than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. " If God reveal anything to you by any other instrument of His, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His holy Word.
Page 227 - Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in Covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee, for Thy people. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service...
Page 227 - Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them. Give them consistency of judgment, one heart, and mutual love ; and go on to deliver them, and with the work of reformation ; and make the Name of Christ glorious in the world. Teach those who look too much on Thy instruments, to depend more upon Thyself.
Page 99 - We charge him with having broken his coronation oath; and we are told that he kept his marriage vow. We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot-headed and hard-hearted of prelates; and the defence is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him!
Page 67 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Page 28 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 335 - Poor child ! thought I, what sorrow art thou like to have for thy portion in this world ! Thou must be beaten ; must beg ; suffer hunger, cold, nakedness and a thousand calamities, though I cannot now endure the wind should blow upon thee...
Page 98 - The advocates of Charles, like the advocates of other malefactors against whom overwhelming evidence is produced, generally decline all controversy about the facts, and content themselves with calling testimony to character. He had so many private virtues ! And had James the Second no private virtues?
Page 200 - Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it— that satisfies.
Page 137 - There still remained a rugged and clownish soldier, half-fanatic, half-buffoon, whose talents, discerned as yet only by one penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince. But in Hampden, and in Hampden alone...