The English Historical Review, Volume 16Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, Sir John Goronwy Edwards Oxford University Press, 1901 - Electronic journals |
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Page 191 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 452 - Question may be defined as the problem of filling up the vacuum created by the gradual disappearance of the Turkish Empire from Europe.
Page 639 - Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was entered with a small company into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in...
Page 301 - ... the people's affections from their allegiance to their natural sovereign. In all other points her Majesty continued her former lenity; but when, about the twentieth year of her reign, she had discovered in the King of Spain an intention to invade her dominions; and that a principal part of the plot, was to prepare a party within the realm that might adhere to the foreigner...
Page 517 - I have received your letter of the 15th of September, which tells me that you have still preserved the remembrance •of a man who is infinitely attached to you, and who in the course of a memorable campaign, if there ever were one, has learnt to appreciate your rare military talents, your profound judgment on the great operations of war, and your imperturbable sangfroid in the day of battle. These rare qualities and your honourable character will link me to you eternally.
Page 525 - Wellington, for that by his transactions with the deceitful nabobs this distinguished general had so accustomed himself to duplicity that he had at last become such a master in the art as even to outwit the nabobs themselves.
Page 393 - Race, that accursed tribe. He belonged to the rarer and nobler type of governing men, who see the golden side, who count faith, pity, hope, among the counsels of practical wisdom, and who for political power must ever seek a moral base.
Page 422 - ... the earlier chapters. This last is a point that may not be quite obvious to all ; but is it not true that the historian runs greater and more numerous dangers if he tells of the growth and decay of institutions than if he writes a straightforward narrative of events ? Would Gibbon's editor find BO few mistakes to rectify if Gibbon had seriously tried to make his readers live for a while under the laws of Franks and Lombards...
Page 567 - Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII.
Page 669 - Colony flourished ; he managed a great trade with the Spaniards by the Indians with great secrecy ; he was a great friend of all new colonies of Christians of what nation soever...