A History of England, Tom 2

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O'Shea, 1860
 

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Strona 225 - Know, moreover, that you are my children in God. Neither law nor reason allows you to judge your father. I therefore decline your tribunal, and refer my quarrel to the decision of the pope. To him I appeal ; and shall now, under the protection of the Catholic church, and the Apostolic see, depart.
Strona 241 - Of the cowards who eat my bread, is there not one who will free me from this turbulent priest?
Strona 335 - Most holy land, I commend thee to the care of the Almighty. May he grant me life to return and rescue thee from the yoke of the infidels!
Strona 70 - Though the king possessed sixty-eight forests, besides parks and chases, in different parts of England, he was not...
Strona 148 - the first time that he has been in arms against me. But what is worse, he has made me the subject of satire, and in his poems has held me up to the derision of my enemies. From his example let other versifiers learn what they may expect if they offend the king of England.
Strona 70 - He also set many deerfriths ;• and he made laws therewith, that whosoever should slay hart or hind, him man should blind. As he forbade the slaying of harts, so also did he of boars. So much he loved the high-deer, as if he had been their father. He also decreed about hares, that they should go free.
Strona 219 - Concerning appeals, if any shall arise, they ought to proceed from the archdeacon to the bishop, and from the bishop to the archbishop : and, if the archbishop...
Strona 195 - ... concealed a heart that could descend to the basest artifices, and sport with its own honour and veracity. No one would believe his assertions or trust his promises: yet he justified this habit of duplicity by the maxim...
Strona 269 - Vestrsa jurisdictionis fst regnum Anglise, et quantum ad feudatarii juris obligationem vobis duntaxat obnoxius teneor et astringor. Pet. Bles. ep. 136. I conceive, therefore, that this oath of feudal subjection was one of those things which he added de libera voluntate.
Strona 68 - King William was a very wise man, and very rich, more worshipful and strong than. any of his foregangers. He was mild to good men, who loved God ; and stark beyond all bounds to those who withsaid his will.

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