The Growth of the English NationFlood and Vincent, 1894 - 292 sivua |
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agricultural Alice Perrers army barons Bill bishops Britain Britons brought called Catholic Celts century Charles Charter Chartists Church civil clergy coast colonies Conquest Continent court Cromwell crown death defeat Duke Earl ecclesiastical Edward Edward III elected Elizabeth England English established favor feudal forced foreign France French Gladstone hand held Henry Henry II Henry's Home Rule House of Commons House of Lords industrial influence interest Ireland Irish James John John of Gaunt king king's kingdom labor land leader legislation Liberal London Lord manufactures ment Mercia ministers ministry nation Norman Normandy papal Parlia Parliament party peace political pope popular population priest Prince Protestant queen race realm reform reign religious revolt Richard Richard II Roman Roman Britain Rome royal Saxon Scotland secure shire statute struggle success Teutons throne tion Tory towns trade Treaty of Wallingford vassals Wales Warwick wealth Whigs William
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Sivu 163 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Sivu 223 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Sivu 243 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Sivu 186 - And though you have had and may have many princes more mighty and wise sitting in this seat, yet you never had nor shall have any that will be more careful and loving.
Sivu 256 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Sivu 52 - He planted a great preserve for deer, and he laid down laws therewith, that whosoever should slay hart or hind should be blinded. He forbade the harts and also the boars to be killed. As greatly did he love the tall deer as if he were their father. He also ordained concerning the hares that they should go free.
Sivu 93 - No freeman," ran the memorable article that lies at the base of our whole judicial system, " shall be seized or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way brought to ruin: we will not go against any man nor send against him, save by legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." " To no man will we sell," runs another, " or deny, or delay, right or justice.
Sivu 256 - You have now had four years of it,' he said. ' You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and every endowment in the country. You have examined into everybody's affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. I believe that the people of this country have had enough of the policy of confiscation.
Sivu 270 - Among the manufacturers houses are likewise scattered an infinite number of cottages or small dwellings, in which dwell the workmen which are employed, the women and children of whom, are always busy carding, spinning, etc.
Sivu 36 - ... rain-storm without. The sparrow flies in at one door and tarries for a moment in the light and heat of the hearth-fire, and then flying forth from the other vanishes into the wintry darkness whence it came. So tarries for a moment the life of man in our sight, but what is before it, what after it, we know not. If this new teaching tells us aught certainly of these, let us follow it.