An Introduction to the History of Western Europe, Volume 1

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Page 502 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of Parliament...
Page 517 - By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the execution of laws, without consent of Parliament.
Page 96 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 512 - Thy instruments, to depend more upon Thyself. Pardon such as desire to trample upon the dust of a poor worm, for they are Thy People too. And pardon the folly of this short Prayer: — Even for Jesus Christ's sake. And give us a good night, if it be Thy pleasure. Amen.
Page 67 - Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that It is for his life.
Page 150 - England, whose soever men they were, and all bowed down to him and became his men, and swore oaths of fealty to him that they would be faithful to him against all other men.
Page 67 - Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Page 289 - ... and thou were the truest lover, of a sinful man, that ever loved woman; and thou wert the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou wert the meekest man, and the gentlest, that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou wert the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 281 - Pro deo amur et pro Christian poblo et nostro commun salvament d'ist di in avant, in quant deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo et in...
Page 481 - ... dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within...

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