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... characters more strongly contrasted than those of Henry VIII . and his father . Henry VII . was cool , circum- spect , and persevering ; his successor violent and impetuous , driven forward by his affec- tions and passions , and ...
... characters more strongly contrasted than those of Henry VIII . and his father . Henry VII . was cool , circum- spect , and persevering ; his successor violent and impetuous , driven forward by his affec- tions and passions , and ...
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... character , and was speedily ad- vanced to the summit of royal favour . Magni- ficent in his expenses and dissipated in his habits , he conciliated the affections of the youthful monarch ; learned himself and a friend to learning , he ...
... character , and was speedily ad- vanced to the summit of royal favour . Magni- ficent in his expenses and dissipated in his habits , he conciliated the affections of the youthful monarch ; learned himself and a friend to learning , he ...
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... character , was of all men the most fitted to influence the coun- sels of this boisterous and opinionative prince . His learning and virtue conciliated the respect of his sovereign , while his yielding disposition shunned every occasion ...
... character , was of all men the most fitted to influence the coun- sels of this boisterous and opinionative prince . His learning and virtue conciliated the respect of his sovereign , while his yielding disposition shunned every occasion ...
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... character of all except the last . In his long reign of almost thirty- eight years he had ( 1 ) six wives , of whom two perished by the hand of the executioner , two were divorced , and one died shortly after her marriage ; the last ...
... character of all except the last . In his long reign of almost thirty- eight years he had ( 1 ) six wives , of whom two perished by the hand of the executioner , two were divorced , and one died shortly after her marriage ; the last ...
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... character of the Reformation should be determined on a consideration of its own merits , and ought not to be considered as de- pending on those of the agents , by whom it was effected , since the divine providence renders the weaknesses ...
... character of the Reformation should be determined on a consideration of its own merits , and ought not to be considered as de- pending on those of the agents , by whom it was effected , since the divine providence renders the weaknesses ...
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Página 95 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 473 - who is willing to be the man of his people, is the greatest king in the world, but if he wishes to be more, by heaven he is nothing at all!
Página 318 - It is not to be denied, that there were, in all those parliaments, especially in that of the fourth year, several passages, and distempered speeches of particular persons, not fit for the dignity and honour of those places, and unsuitable to the reverence due to his majesty and his councils. But I do not know any formed act of either house (for neither the remonstrance...
Página 411 - He intended it should consist of seven counsellors, and four secretaries for different provinces. These were the first, France, Switzerland, and the Valleys : the palatinate and the other Calvinists were the second : Germany, the North, and Turkey were the third : and the East and West Indies were the fourth.
Página 249 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.
Página 313 - I tell you my unpublished cogitations, the plain truth is, I keep Laud back from all place of rule and authority, because I find that he hath a restless spirit, and cannot see when matters are well, but loves to toss and change, and to bring things to a pitch of reformation floating in his own brain which may endanger the steadfastness of that which is at a good pass, God be praised.
Página 100 - Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Página 314 - Yet this man hath pressed me to invite them to a nearer conjunction with the liturgy and canons of this nation...
Página 103 - ... taxes, and impositions, giveth most free pardons and absolutions, restoreth in blood and name as the highest court, condemneth or absolveth them whom the prince will put to that trial. And, to be short, all that ever the people of Rome might do, either in centuriatis comitiis or tributis, the same may be done by the parliament of England, which representeth, and hath the power of the whole realm, both the head and the body.