A Complete History of England: From the Descent of Julius Caesar, to the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle, 1748. Containing the Transactions of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three Years, Volum 4J. Rivington and J. Fletcher, at the Oxford-Theatre, 1758 - 479 pàgines |
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Pàgina 41 - He was tall, majestic, finely shaped, with a piercing eye, and aquiline visage. He excelled all his contemporaries in feats of arms and personal address. He was courteous, affable, and eloquent ; of a free deportment, and agreeable conversation ; and had the art of commanding the affection of his subjects, without seeming to solicit popularity.
Pàgina 42 - ... of his country. And nothing could have induced or enabled his people to bear the load of taxes with which they were encumbered in his reign, but the love and admiration of his person, the fame of his victories, and the excellent laws and regulations which the parliament enacted with his advice and concurrence.
Pàgina 375 - HENRY was tall and flender, with, a' long neck, and engaging afpect, and limbs of the moft elegant turn. He excelled all the youth of that age, in agility, and the exercife of arms; was hardy, patient, laborious, and more ea- , pable of enduring cold, hunger, and fatigue, than any individual in his army.
Pàgina 201 - ... lances, delivered one to the challenger, and sent a knight with the other to the duke of Norfolk, and proclamation was made that they should prepare for the combat. Accordingly, mounting their horses and closing their beavers, they fixed their lances in rest, and the trumpets sounded the charge.
Pàgina 201 - After which, the mareschal having measured their lances, delivered one to the challenger, and sent a knight with the other to the duke of Norfolk, and proclamation was made that they should prepare for the combat.
Pàgina 224 - He was idle, profuse, and profligate, and, though brave by starts, naturally pusillanimous and irresolute. His pride and resentment prompted him to cruelty and breach of faith: while his necessities obliged him to fleece his people, and degrade the dignity of his character and station.
Pàgina 291 - ... and ill-judged profufion. He was tame from caution, humble from fear, cruel from policy, and rapacious from indigence.
Pàgina 223 - ... even when they happened to clash with his own principles and opinion. He was a dupe to flattery, a slave to ostentation, and not more apt to give up his reason to the suggestion of sycophants and vitious ministers, than to sacrifice those ministers to his safety.
Pàgina 40 - Edward's conftitution had been impaired by the fatigues of his youth ; fo that he began to feel the infirmities of old age, before they approach the common courfe of nature : and now he was feized with a malignant fever, attended with eruptions, that foon put a period to his life.
Pàgina 148 - ... the Archbishop of York, the Duke of Ireland, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Robert Tresilian, and Sir Nicholas Brembre, as public and dangerous enemies to the state.