A plain and short history of England for children;in letters from a father to his son, by the editor of the Cottager's monthly visitor1829 |
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Σελίδα 126
... pretender to the crown was set up . This was one Perkin Warbeck . He gave it out that the younger of the children , said to have been murdered in the Tower , was in fact not murdered , but was still living ; -and Warbeck said that he ...
... pretender to the crown was set up . This was one Perkin Warbeck . He gave it out that the younger of the children , said to have been murdered in the Tower , was in fact not murdered , but was still living ; -and Warbeck said that he ...
Σελίδα 130
... pretender to the crown arise ? What was his name ? Whom did Perkin Warbeck pretend to be ? Was he supported by many people of rank ? Are there people who still believe that Perkin Warbeck was really the duke of York , who was said to ...
... pretender to the crown arise ? What was his name ? Whom did Perkin Warbeck pretend to be ? Was he supported by many people of rank ? Are there people who still believe that Perkin Warbeck was really the duke of York , who was said to ...
Σελίδα 223
... Pretenders : but I may , perhaps , say more of them in some other letter . Queen Anne was thirty - eight years of age when she came to the throne . I told you that the greater part of the last king's reign was taken up in wars ; because ...
... Pretenders : but I may , perhaps , say more of them in some other letter . Queen Anne was thirty - eight years of age when she came to the throne . I told you that the greater part of the last king's reign was taken up in wars ; because ...
Σελίδα 234
... Pretender ; and many attempts were made to get the kingdom out of the hands of king George , and to give it to him . Many of the principal lords and great people were concerned in a conspiracy to restore the Pretender , and especially ...
... Pretender ; and many attempts were made to get the kingdom out of the hands of king George , and to give it to him . Many of the principal lords and great people were concerned in a conspiracy to restore the Pretender , and especially ...
Σελίδα 235
... Pretender and his friends seemed to come to nothing . This is what is called the rebellion of seventeen hundred and fifteen . There was one afterwards , in the time of George the Second , in favour of the Pretender , headed by prince ...
... Pretender and his friends seemed to come to nothing . This is what is called the rebellion of seventeen hundred and fifteen . There was one afterwards , in the time of George the Second , in favour of the Pretender , headed by prince ...
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Σελίδα 90 - That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Σελίδα 89 - O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Σελίδα 90 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf 'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Σελίδα 185 - It will soon carry you a great way. It will carry you from earth to heaven, and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.
Σελίδα 184 - 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!
Σελίδα 173 - I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow — this parliament, and yet they shall not see...
Σελίδα 149 - He expired at Greenwich, in the sixteenth year of his age, and the seventh of his reign.
Σελίδα 235 - Fabrice's arms, he never recovered. but expired about eleven o'clock the next morning, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and the thirteenth of his reign Questions for Examination, \ What was the conduct of the South Sea scheme ? 2 Explain the nature of it, 3.
Σελίδα 69 - Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace: Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king!
Σελίδα 134 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...