The History of England, from the Accession of Richard II to the Death of Richard III (1377-1485)

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1906 - 525 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 477 - of such as were secret with his chamberers, that after this abominable deed done he never had quiet in his mind, he never thought himself sure. Where he went abroad, his eyes whirled about, his body privily fenced, his hand ever on his dagger, his countenance and manner like one always ready to strike again. He took ill rest at nights, lay long waking and musing; sore wearied with care and watch, he rather slumbered than slept.
الصفحة 461 - He was only in his forty-second year when he was put to death ; " at which death," says Caxton, every man that was there might learn to die, and take his death patiently." Fuller has said that " the axe then did at one blow cut off more learning than was left in the heads of all the surviving nobility.
الصفحة 9 - bench and common pleas, and the chief baron of the exchequer .., 5 0 0 3.
الصفحة 316 - There were yet fifteen years to pass before the English were expelled from Normandy, and eighteen before they finally lost their hold on Guienne. The long game was played out with obstinate resolution by the one side, and in a very spasmodic and inconsequent fashion by the other, or it could not have been so long protracted. The English had recovered from the panic into which they had been thrown by the exploits of Jeanne Darc, and were once more the solid troops that they had been in the earlier...
الصفحة 291 - Let my brother govern as him list while he is in this land, but after his going over into France, I will govern as me seemeth good ". While he was in such a frame of mind it was necessary that the regent should remain; he tarried till March 19, 1427, and only sailed when he had obtained a formal promise from Gloucester that "he CHAP, would be ruled and governed by the lords of the council," and do nothing without their consent.

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