Her Majesty the Queen: Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 27
Página 1
been taken not by the Court but by the people — not by Queen Victoria but by
King Demos . This year of 1897 is the popular Annus Mirabilis , in which the
Englishspeaking people outside the United States will vie with each other in
expressing ...
been taken not by the Court but by the people — not by Queen Victoria but by
King Demos . This year of 1897 is the popular Annus Mirabilis , in which the
Englishspeaking people outside the United States will vie with each other in
expressing ...
Página 7
About the same time the same veracious authorities , the Bibles of the nursery ,
impressed upon the plastic mind the idea which for ever associates queens with
bread and honey :• The King was in his counting - house Counting out his money
...
About the same time the same veracious authorities , the Bibles of the nursery ,
impressed upon the plastic mind the idea which for ever associates queens with
bread and honey :• The King was in his counting - house Counting out his money
...
Página 8
Esther and Vashti were queens so long as the king loved them , but of queens
proper there were only the Queen of Sheba , that fairy princess of Semitic
tradition ; Queen Athaliah , who came to a bloody end ; and Queen Jezebel , who
painted ...
Esther and Vashti were queens so long as the king loved them , but of queens
proper there were only the Queen of Sheba , that fairy princess of Semitic
tradition ; Queen Athaliah , who came to a bloody end ; and Queen Jezebel , who
painted ...
Página 10
In the midst of the fierce objurgations which were hurled against despots , kings ,
and all the crowned enemies of the human race , I always made a mental
exception in favour of Queen Elizabeth . This brings me to the political starting -
point ...
In the midst of the fierce objurgations which were hurled against despots , kings ,
and all the crowned enemies of the human race , I always made a mental
exception in favour of Queen Elizabeth . This brings me to the political starting -
point ...
Página 14
were an anachronism — a belated survival which must speedily vanish from a
world in which enlightened humanity would “ have no more use for kings . ” In the
midst of this all but universal assumption that Monarchy was played out , and that
...
were an anachronism — a belated survival which must speedily vanish from a
world in which enlightened humanity would “ have no more use for kings . ” In the
midst of this all but universal assumption that Monarchy was played out , and that
...
Comentarios de la gente - Escribir un comentario
No encontramos ningún comentario en los lugares habituales.
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Her Majesty the Queen: Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign William Thomas Stead Vista completa - 1897 |
Her Majesty the Queen: Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign (Classic Reprint) W. T. Stead Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Her Majesty the Queen: Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign William Thomas Stead Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
Archbishop Tait authority believed Britain British Cabinet carried cause Church Colonial Commons Constitution Count course Court Crown despatch doubt Downing Street duty Empire England English expressed fact feel followed German give given Gladstone Government Governor hand head heart House husband idea Imperial important India influence interest John King Lady land less letter living London Lord John Russell Lord Palmerston Majesty matter MICHIGAN millions mind Minister Monarchy mother natural nearly never Office once opportunity party passed peace Peel political position present Prince Consort Princess Queen question received regarded reign Royal seemed seen Sir George Grey Sir Robert sixty South Africa Sovereign stand subjects things thought throne to-day true UNIVERSITY whole Windsor woman women wrote young
Pasajes populares
Página 1 - King ! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us ! God save the King!
Página 138 - Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, "Sweat For foreheads," men say "crowns," and so we are crowned, Ay, gashed by some tormenting circle of steel Which snaps with a secret spring. Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
Página 168 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Página 55 - Then I saw in my dream that the Interpreter took Christian by the hand and led him into a place where was a fire burning against a wall, and one standing by it, always casting much water upon it to quench it; yet did the fire bum higher and hotter. Then said Christian, What means this?
Página 55 - What means this? The Interpreter answered, This fire is the work of grace, that is wrought in the heart ; he that casts water upon it, to extinguish and put it out, is the devil ; but in that thou seest the fire notwithstanding burn higher and hotter, thou shalt also see the reason of that.
Página 7 - Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? I've been to London to visit the Queen. Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there?
Página 109 - Derby would write it bimself in his excellent language, bearing in mind that it is a female Sovereign who speaks to more than a hundred millions of Eastern people on assuming the direct Government over them, and, after a bloody civil war, giving them pledges which her future reign is to redeem, and explaining the principles of her Government.
Página 108 - ... or how shall I attempt to express what I feel ! To think of your dear, noble, heroic Brother, who served his Country and his Queen so truly, so heroically, with a selfsacrifice so edifying to the World, not having been rescued. That the promises of support were not fulfilled — 'which I so frequently and constantly pressed on those who asked him to go — is to me grief inexpressible...
Página 73 - Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that minister.
Página 125 - ... continually and anxiously to watch every part of the public business, in order to be able to advise and assist her at any moment in any of the multifarious and difficult questions brought before her, political, or social, or personal...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Her Majesty the Queen: Studies of the Sovereign and the Reign |
| Autor | William Thomas Stead |
| Editor | "Review of Reviews" Office, 1897 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 13 Jun. 2008 |
| Largo | 170 páginas |
| Exportar cita | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |