The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 3 |
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Page 288 - for that purpofe ; and it is certain, that all his courage and capacity, qualities in which he really feems not to have been deficient, would never have made compenfation to the people for the danger of the precedent, and for the contagious example of vice and murder, exalted upon the throne. This prince was of a
Page 290 - to re-afcend, threw out many gleams of light, which preceded the full morning when letters were revived in the fifteenth century. The Danes, and other northern people, who had fo long infefted all the coafts, and. even the inland parts of Europe, by their depredations, having now learned the arts of tillage and agriculture, found a certain
Page 207 - the head was cut off by Margaret's orders, and fixed on the gates of York, with a paper crown upon it, in derifion of his pretended title. His fon, the earl of Rutland, a youth of feventeen, was brought to lord Clifford;
Page 242 - Warwic, kept the people every where from joining him, he pretended, and even made oath, that he came not to challenge the crown, but only the inheritance of the houfe of York, which of right belonged to him; and that he did not intend to difturb the peace of the kingdom.
Page 94 - of peace and accommodation. The princes of the blood, combining with the young duke of Orleans and his brothers, made violent war on the duke of Burgundy ; and the unhappy king, feized fometimes by one party, fometimes by the other, transferred alternately to each of them the appearance of legal authority.
Page 117 - many eminent virtues; and and chaif we give indulgence to ambition in a monarch, or rank it, as the vulgar are inclined to do, among his virtues, they were unftained by any confiderable blemifh. His abilities appeared equally in the cabinet and in the field : The boldnefs of his
Page 257 - had killed a white buck, which was a great favourite of the owner; and Burdet, vexed at the lofs, broke into a paflion, and wifhed the horns of the deer in the belly of the perfon who had advifed the king to
Page 10 - charters which had been granted to their fellows q . Soon after, the nobility and gentry, hearing of the king's danger, in which they were all involved, flocked to London with their adherents and retainers; and Richard took the field at the head of an army
Page 170 - education than was ufual in his age, to have founded one of the firft public libraries in England, and to have been a great patron of learned men. Among other advantages which he reaped from this turn of mind, it tended much to cure him of credulity; of which the following
Page 287 - him with fury, in hopes that either Henry's death or his own would decide the victory between them. He killed with his own hands fir William Brandon, ftandard-bearer to the earl: He difmoun,ted fir John Cheyney: