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B.H. Blackwell, 1892 - 170 pàgines

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Pàgina 145 - The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse For Tories own no argument but force. With equal care to Cambridge books he sent For Whigs allow no force but argument.
Pàgina 122 - was darkened at noon-day, and had only a single candle burning in it. After a short stay in this melancholy apartment, he was led into a chamber hung with black, where he entertained himself for some time by the glimmering of a taper, until at length the head of the college came out to him from an inner room, with half-a-dozen
Pàgina 145 - Our royal master saw with heedful eyes The wants of his two universities; Troops he to Oxford sent, as knowing why That learned body wanted loyalty; But books to Cambridge gave, as well discerning How that right loyal body wanted learning.
Pàgina 160 - many circumstances concur to aggravate your offence. The place of your residence was a singular advantage. You had at all times the example of one of the most learned and respectable bodies in Europe before your eyes. Their conduct in every instance, but especially in the choice of their representatives in Parliament was well worthy
Pàgina 122 - so that upon making his escape out of this house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able to go through the terrors of it.
Pàgina 72 - Some innocent wretches after they had killed, they scornfully cast into houses of easement, others they buried in dunghills, and some they let lie above ground. The crowns of some chaplains, that is, all the skin so far as the tonsure went, these diabolical imps flayed off in scorn of their clergy.
Pàgina 121 - He was received at the door by a servant, who was one of that gloomy generation that were then in fashion. He conducted him with great silence and seriousness to a long gallery, which
Pàgina 169 - bill of fare was a large dish of Calves' Heads dressed in several ways, by which they represented the King and his Friends who had suffered in his cause; a large Pike with a small one in his mouth, as an emblem of tyranny; a
Pàgina 69 - Which being done, they in an instant were in arms, some with bows and arrows, others with divers sorts of weapons. And then they without any more ado, did in a furious and hostile manner suddenly set upon divers scholars, who at that time had not any offensive
Pàgina 69 - were John de Bereford, Richard Forester, and Robert Lardiner, who out of propensed malice, seeking all occasions of conflict with the scholars, and taking this abuse for a ground to proceed upon, caused the Town Bell at St. Martin's to be rung, that the Commonalty might be summoned together.

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