Our native land, or, Scenes and sketches from British history, by the author of 'Scriptural instruction for the least and lowest'.1855 |
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... SOVEREIGN XXXII . SCENES IN THE PLAGUE AND FIRE XXXIII . A TIME OF OPPRESSION XXXIV . THE ERA OF CIVIL AND RELI- GIOUS LIBERTY XXXV . A CHAPTER ON GREAT MEN XXXVI . A STRUGGLE IN THE NORTH XXXVII . TIMES OF WAR ... XXXVIII . THE NEGRO's ...
... SOVEREIGN XXXII . SCENES IN THE PLAGUE AND FIRE XXXIII . A TIME OF OPPRESSION XXXIV . THE ERA OF CIVIL AND RELI- GIOUS LIBERTY XXXV . A CHAPTER ON GREAT MEN XXXVI . A STRUGGLE IN THE NORTH XXXVII . TIMES OF WAR ... XXXVIII . THE NEGRO's ...
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... as Tudor was his family name , the line of sovereigns , of whom he is called the line of Tudor . shall rejoice that we have now was the first , I am sure we ended the sad history of the civil wars , which had so long 8 OUR NATIVE LAND .
... as Tudor was his family name , the line of sovereigns , of whom he is called the line of Tudor . shall rejoice that we have now was the first , I am sure we ended the sad history of the civil wars , which had so long 8 OUR NATIVE LAND .
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... sovereigns of Eng- land , though with a meaning very different from that which it had as applied to Henry . The fact of a king having written a book on the doctrines of Luther , turned the attention of the people to the subject still ...
... sovereigns of Eng- land , though with a meaning very different from that which it had as applied to Henry . The fact of a king having written a book on the doctrines of Luther , turned the attention of the people to the subject still ...
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... sovereign was gradually sinking into the grave , and that his crown and his kingdom would shortly pass into other , perhaps into very different hands Edward had no fear with regard to himself . He had long learnt to look forward to ...
... sovereign was gradually sinking into the grave , and that his crown and his kingdom would shortly pass into other , perhaps into very different hands Edward had no fear with regard to himself . He had long learnt to look forward to ...
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... sovereigns , her faults and her weak- nesses , as we shall see in the course of the history of her reign ; but , notwithstanding these , she was a great queen ; a woman of no common capacity , and , above all , a firm Pro- testant , and ...
... sovereigns , her faults and her weak- nesses , as we shall see in the course of the history of her reign ; but , notwithstanding these , she was a great queen ; a woman of no common capacity , and , above all , a firm Pro- testant , and ...
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Page 364 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 164 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 57 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 57 - A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels...
Page 353 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Page 272 - Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 360 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Page 157 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 267 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 293 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.