History of France, from the Earliest Times to MDCCCXLVIIID. Appleton, 1859 - 571 страници |
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Страница 30 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose. The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Страница 406 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Страница 137 - III.," says Sir Matthew Hale, " the law was improved to its greatest height. The judges and pleaders were very learned. The pleadings are more polishcd than those in the time of Edward II., yet they have neither uncertainty, prolixity, nor obscurity. So that, at the latter part of this king's reign, the law seemed to be near its meridian...
Страница 3 - This book makes an attempt to furnish a readable account of the country with which we are in closest neighbourhood, and yet of whose history the generality of us know less than of that of almost any other kingdom. It aims at something higher than a mere epitome, for it founds itself on a great deal of various reading, and gives results more than abstracts. At the same time, it devotes sufficient space to any occurrences which seem to have a general bearing on the progress or character of the nation....
Страница 22 - It is a shame," he said, as he looked on the rich fields across the Garonne, " that such territories should belong to villains who have a different creed from ours. Onward ! let us take possession of their land." The same eloquence was exerted on the east as well as the south of his dominions, and the result was, that in a few years he was acknowledged king and conqueror from the Channel to the Mediterranean. He is the founder of the first royal race of France, which, however, docs not take his name,...
Страница 277 - I know not what has happened to me these two or three days past ; but I feel my mind and body as much at enmity with each other, as if I was seized with a fever ; sleeping or waking, the murdered Huguenots seem ever present to my eyes, with ghastly faces, and weltering in blood. I wish the innocent and helpless had been spared...
Страница 216 - Gronsalvo sent the execrable Caesar Borgia to expiate his crimes by perpetual imprisonment in Castile. An opportunity soon offered^ as Julius hoped, to embroil the two powers against whom his wrath was principally directed. The great idea of the Balance of Power — that is, such a just distribution of force, either by alliance or internal resources, between the different States, that no one shall preponderate over the others— began to be adopted as the policy of Europe. Louis was therefore uneasy...
Страница 277 - The king soon after took him aside, and disclosed to him freely the trouble of his soul: " Ambrose/' said he, "I know not what has " happened to me these two or three days past, but I " feel my mind and body as much at enmity with each