History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Issue 37, Volume 10Longmans, Green and Company, 1870 |
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Popular passages
Page 250 - Nor was Gilbert a bad man. As times went he passed for a brave and chivalrous gentleman, not the least distinguished in that high band of adventurers who carried the English flag into the Western hemisphere ; a founder of colonies, an explorer of unknown seas, a man of science, and, above all, a man of special piety.
Page 191 - Morton spoke only of what he knew; the full measure of Knox's greatness neither he nor any other man could then estimate. It is as we look back over that stormy time, and weigh the actors in it, one against the other, that he stands out in his full proportions. No grander figure can be found in the entire history of the Reformation in this island than that of Knox.
Page 536 - I them love lewd women, cards, dice, or drink best, and when they must of necessity go to church, they carry with them a book in Latin of the Common Prayer, set forth and allowed by her Majesty, but they read little or nothing of it, or can well read it; but they tell the people a tale of Our Lady, or St Patrick...
Page 420 - It may be objected that this will be against your league ; but I hold it as lawful in Christian policy to prevent a mischief betimes as to revenge it too late...
Page 527 - Surloyboy himself, he continued, " stood upon the mainland of the Glynnes and saw the " taking of the island, and was likely to have run mad for sorrow, •" tearing and tormenting himself, and saying that he there lost all
Page 536 - December, 1584. Three years later an English resident in Ireland writes: — " There is no divine service in the country — all the churches are clean down, ruinous, and in great decay. The ministers will not be accounted ministers but priests. They will have no wives. If it would stay there it were well ; but they have harlots, which they make believe it is no sin to live and lie with them, but if they marry they are damned. With long experience and some extraordinary trial of these fellows, I...
Page 501 - ... repute ; or else out of hatred of the marriage, which most men presaged would be the overthrow of religion.
Page 594 - I confess my sin. I have followed man too much in ' it, and this is the cause — that neither the chief can ' hearken to that that concerns both honour and safety ' most, nor you that persuade the truth can be believed ; 'nor I that desire the right can be satisfied. Baal's ' prophets and councillors shall prevail. I see it is so. ' I see it is just. I see it past help. I rest...
Page 250 - The English, nation was shuddering over the atrocities of the Duke of Alva. The children in the nurseries were being inflamed to patriotic rage and madness by tales of Spanish tyranny. Yet Alva's bloody sword never touched the young, the defenceless, or those whose sex even dogs can recognise and respect.
Page 401 - On festival days, as is meet for a man of his quality, we can be content you shall enlarge his diet by allowing unto him for his dinner the shoulder of a wren, and for his supper a leg of the same, besides his ordinary ounces.