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... consent that I should pay for myself , hoping still to beguile the Bishop , but the Spaniart and I writ up every day's compt . The Frenchmen being foiled in their swindling in- tentions , had recourse to a still bolder manœuvre . One ...
... consent that I should pay for myself , hoping still to beguile the Bishop , but the Spaniart and I writ up every day's compt . The Frenchmen being foiled in their swindling in- tentions , had recourse to a still bolder manœuvre . One ...
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... consent to a declaration , that Francis and Mary should abstain from using and bearing the title and arms of the kingdom of England , not only during the life of Elizabeth , but " in all times coming . ' There was here so palpable a ...
... consent to a declaration , that Francis and Mary should abstain from using and bearing the title and arms of the kingdom of England , not only during the life of Elizabeth , but " in all times coming . ' There was here so palpable a ...
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... consent- ing to be present at Gordon's death . She was placed at a window , opposite to which the scaffold had been erected . Gordon , who was one of the handsomest men of his times , observed her , and fixing his eyes upon her , " gave ...
... consent- ing to be present at Gordon's death . She was placed at a window , opposite to which the scaffold had been erected . Gordon , who was one of the handsomest men of his times , observed her , and fixing his eyes upon her , " gave ...
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... consent ; some judicious legis- lative measures of a domestic nature were esta- blished ; and an act of oblivion for all acts done from the 6th of March 1558 , to the first of Sep- tember 1561 , was unanimously carried . This act of ...
... consent ; some judicious legis- lative measures of a domestic nature were esta- blished ; and an act of oblivion for all acts done from the 6th of March 1558 , to the first of Sep- tember 1561 , was unanimously carried . This act of ...
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... consent , she would have little difficulty in prevail- ing upon the Parliament of England to set aside her succession . " " Driven hither and thither by so many contrary opinions and contending interests , it was no easy matter for the ...
... consent , she would have little difficulty in prevail- ing upon the Parliament of England to set aside her succession . " " Driven hither and thither by so many contrary opinions and contending interests , it was no easy matter for the ...
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Página 153 - She repented nothing but, when the Lords and others, at Inverness, came in the morning from the watches, that she was not a man to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and a knapsack, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.
Página 168 - Why should the pleasing face of a gentlewoman affray me ? I have looked in the faces of many angry men, and yet have not been afraid above measure.
Página 137 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Página 111 - ... memory of man, that day of the year was never seen a more dolorous face of the heaven, than was at her arrival, which two days after did so continue: for, besides the...
Página 236 - God forbid that I should make so foul a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot to my poor posterity, to shed blood without Law or Warrant...
Página 236 - I am so unhappy to have liven to see this unhappy day, in the which I am required, by direction from my most gracious Sovereign, to do an act which God and the law forbiddeth.
Página 291 - Bothwell for her husband, but avoweth constantly that she will live and die with him, and saith that if it were put to her choice to relinquish her crown and kingdom or the Lord Bothwell, she would leave her kingdom and dignity to go as a simple damsel with him, and that she will never consent that he shall fare worse or have more harm than herself.
Página 64 - Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable. Her hair was black, though, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours.
Página 190 - I know the truth of that, Madam," said I ; " you need not tell it me. Your Majesty thinks, if you were married, you would be but queen of England ; and now you are both king and queen. I know your spirit cannot endure a commander.
Página 249 - ... agreeable woman rather than an illustrious queen. The vivacity of her spirit, not sufficiently tempered with sound judgment, and the warmth of her heart, which was not at all times under the restraint of discretion, betrayed her both into errors and into crimes. To say that she was always unfortunate will not account for that long and almost uninterrupted succession of calamities which befel her; we must likewise add that she was often imprudent.