A History of England from the First Invasion of the Romans to the Accession of William & Mary in 1688, 第 4 巻Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1853 |
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321 ページ - Alas ! fair son, what right have you to the crown, when you know your father had none ?" — " My liege," answered the prince, " with your sword you won it, and with the sword I will keep it.
47 ページ - Those that were in the front halted ; but those behind said they would not halt until they were as forward as the front. When the front perceived the rear pressing on, they pushed forward : and neither the king nor the marshals could stop them, but...
106 ページ - Edward is said to have heen superior, in mental powers to have been equal to any of his predecessors. More than usual care had been bestowed on his education; and he could not only speak the English and French, but also understood the German and Latin languages.
107 ページ - His domestic administration was, in many respects, excellent, and advantageous to his subjects. The astonishing victories, which cast so much military splendor on his reign, and which are accounted the most brilliant in English history, appear to have dazzled the eyes both of his subjects and foreigners, who placed him in the first rank of conquerors. But his wars with France and Scotland were unjust in their object ; and after having caused great suffering and devastation, he at last found that...
265 ページ - How true is the saying that we have no greater enemy than the man whom we have preserved from the gallows! Another time he drew his sword on me, in the chamber of the Queen, on whom God have mercy! He was also the accomplice of the Duke of Gloucester and the Earl of Arundel; he consented to my murder, to that of his father, and of all my council. By St. John, I forgave him all; nor would I believe his father, who more than once pronounced him deserving of death.
264 ページ - They came to a steep declivity, to the left of which was the sea, and on the right a lofty rock overhanging the road. The king dismounted, and was descending on foot, when he suddenly exclaimed, "I am " betrayed. God of Paradise, assist me ! Do you not " see banners and pennons in the valley ?" Northumberland with eleven others met them at the moment, and affected to be ignorant of the circumstance. " Earl " of Northumberland," said the king, "if I thought you " capable of betraying me, it is not...
50 ページ - may " have a stroke at the English." Placing him in the midst of them, and interlacing their bridles, they spurred forward their horses, and were almost immediately slain.
6 ページ - ... access, and on the same side of the river ; and the king following, pitched his camp in Stanhope park, opposite to the enemy. In the midst of the night an alarm was created by shouts of " A Douglas, a Douglas ! die ye English " thieves !" That gallant chieftain had passed the river at a distance with two hundred followers, and entering the rear of the camp, galloped towards the king's tent, the cords of which he cut with his own sword. He killed about three hundred men, and retired with some...
300 ページ - ... was ascertained, fled in every direction. The battle had continued three hours : the killed and wounded on the part of the king amounted almost to five thousand, on that of the insurgents to a much greater number. Among the prisoners were the earl Douglas, the earl of Worcester, the baron of Kinderton, and sir Richard Vernon.