“The” History of England from the Accession of James II, Nide 1J.B. Lippincott, 1875 |
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... horses , choice falcons , well- ordered tournaments , banquets delicate rather than abundant , and wines remarkable rather for their exquisite flavor than for their intoxicating power . That chivalrous spirit which has exercised so ...
... horses , choice falcons , well- ordered tournaments , banquets delicate rather than abundant , and wines remarkable rather for their exquisite flavor than for their intoxicating power . That chivalrous spirit which has exercised so ...
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... horses , and commanding little bands , composed of their younger brothers , grooms , game - keepers , and huntsmen , were , from the very first day on which they took the field , qualified to play their part with credit in a skirmish ...
... horses , and commanding little bands , composed of their younger brothers , grooms , game - keepers , and huntsmen , were , from the very first day on which they took the field , qualified to play their part with credit in a skirmish ...
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... horse - racing , were regarded with no friendly eye . But bear - baiting , then a favorite diversion of high and low , was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries . It is to be remarked that their ...
... horse - racing , were regarded with no friendly eye . But bear - baiting , then a favorite diversion of high and low , was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries . It is to be remarked that their ...
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... horses were hired at a great charge for the conveyance of electors . The practice of splitting freeholds for the purpose of multiplying votes dates from this memo- rable struggle . Dissenting preachers , who had long hidden themselves ...
... horses were hired at a great charge for the conveyance of electors . The practice of splitting freeholds for the purpose of multiplying votes dates from this memo- rable struggle . Dissenting preachers , who had long hidden themselves ...
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... , a Knight of the Garter , Master of the Horse , Commander of the first troop of Life Guards , Chief Justice of Eyre south of Trent , and Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Cambridge . Nor did he appear to the 194 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... , a Knight of the Garter , Master of the Horse , Commander of the first troop of Life Guards , Chief Justice of Eyre south of Trent , and Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Cambridge . Nor did he appear to the 194 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
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Sivu 263 - Street, was sacred to polite letters. There the talk was about poetical justice and the unities of place and time. There was a faction for Perrault and the moderns, a faction for Boileau and the ancients. One group debated whether Paradise Lost ought not to have been in rhyme. To another an envious poetaster demonstrated
Sivu 361 - had scarce begun his address to the jury, when the Chief Justice broke forth : " Pollexfen, I know you well. I will set a mark on you. You are the patron of the faction. This is an old rogue, a schismatical knave, a hypocritical villian. He hates the Liturgy. He would have nothing but long-winded
Sivu 118 - of the Pilgrim's Progress languished in a dungeon for the crime of proclaiming the gospel to the poor. It is an unquestionable and a most instructive fact, that the years during which the political power of the Anglican hierarchy was in the zenith were precisely the years during which national virtue was at the lowest point.
Sivu 229 - four or five sons of peers were priests, and held valuable preferment: but these rare exceptions did not take away the reproach which lay on the body. The clergy were regarded as, on the whole, a plebeian class. And, indeed, for one who made the figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial
Sivu 257 - And in luxurious cities, when the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage, and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the
Sivu 263 - coffee-rooms reeked with tobacco like a guard room; and strangers sometimes expressed their surprise that so many people should leave their own firesides to sit in the midst of eternal fog and stench. Nowhere was the smoking more constant than at Will's. That celebrated house, situated between Covent Garden and
Sivu 247 - and laburnums, extended from the great centre of wealth and civilization almost to the boundaries of Middlesex and far into the heart of Kent and Surrey. In the east, no part of the immense line of warehouses and artificial lakes which now spreads from the Tower to
Sivu 257 - act was negligently executed. Few of those who were summoned left their homes ; and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.t It ought to be noticed that, in the last year of the reign of Charles the Second, began a great change
Sivu 310 - it may then be the mode to assert that the increase of wealth and the progress of science have benefited the few at the expense of the many, and to talk of the reign of Queen Victoria as the time when England was truly merry England, when all