The Life of Merlin: Surnamed Ambrosius; His Prophecies and Predictions Interpreted, and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals: Being a Chronographical History of All the Kings and Memorable Passages of this Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King Charles ...J. Evans, 1812 - 324 sider |
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The Life of Merlin, Surnamed Ambrosius: His Prophecies and Predictions ... Thomas Heywood Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2017 |
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Side 39 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Side 280 - I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament : for God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement, but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they shall receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them.
Side 185 - Third ; and through the right that God, of his grace, hath sent me, with help of my kin and of my friends to recover it ; the which realm was in point to be undone for default of governance, and undoing of good laws.
Side 280 - My Lord, Out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Side 281 - ... where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet I say, they shall receive a terrible blow this Parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm, for the danger is past, so soon as you have burnt the letter. And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it: to whose holy protection I commend you.
Side 194 - Gloucester : and two daughters, Blanche and Philippa ; the former married to the duke of Bavaria, the latter to the king of Denmark.
Side 264 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king and queen of England, France. Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; defenders of the faith ; princes of Spain and Sicily ; archdukes of Austria ; dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.
Side ii - For in the steed of a large study book, and huge voluminous Tractate, able to take up a whole yeare in reading, and to load and tyre a Porter in carrying, thou hast here a small Manuell, containing all the pith and marrow of the greater, made portable for thee (if thou so please) to beare in...
Side 222 - He shall to the height of all his hopes aspire, And cloth'd in state his ugly shape admire : But when he thinks himself most safe to stand, From Foreign parts a native whelp shall land, Who shall the long divided blood unite, By joining of the Red Lion with the White.
Side 125 - No wonder," quoth the patriarch, "for they love thine, and not thee. This people followeth prey, and not a man." Then the king said, "I may not go out of my lands, for mine own sons would arise against me when I was absent." "No wonder," quoth the patriarch, "for of the devil they come, and to the devil they shall". . .Also that year [1188] fell strife between the kings of England and of France, and all the money was wasted that was gathered in tithes for the journey in going to Jerusalem; for at...