A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans, 第 8 卷

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J. Mawman, 1825
 

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第 91 頁 - ... which only concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the sacraments...
第 521 頁 - The scavenger's daughter was a broad hoop of iron, so called, consisting of two parts, fastened to each other by a hinge. The prisoner was made to kneel on the pavement, and to contract himself into as small a compass as he could. Then the executioner, kneeling on his shoulders and having introduced the hoop under his legs, compressed the victim close together, till he was able to fasten the extremities over the small of the back. The time allotted to this kind of torture was an hour and a half,...
第 296 頁 - But the sobs and groans of the spectators disconcerted the headsman. He trembled, missed his aim, and inflicted a deep wound in the lower part of the skull. The Queen remained motionless, and at the third stroke her head was severed from her body.
第 546 頁 - She was in dying about one quarter of an hour. A sharp stone, as much as a man's fist, had been put under her back ; upon her was...
第 393 頁 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
第 291 頁 - Melville, cease to lament ; thou hast rather ELIZABETH. " cause to joy than mourn : for thou shalt see " the end of Mary Stuart's troubles. Know " that this world is but vanity, subject to more " sorrow than an ocean of tears can bewail. But " I pray thee report, that I die a true woman to " my religion, to Scotland, and to France. May " God forgive them that have long thirsted for "my blood, as the hart doth for the brooks of
第 510 頁 - I never writ any thing concerning " that matter to any creature ; and, if any such writings be, they " are false and feigned, forged and invented by...
第 219 頁 - Welshman and a civilian, rose in his place, and described it " as a measure savouring of treasons, full " of blood, danger, and despair to English subjects, " and pregnant with fines and forfeitures, which would " go to enrich, not the queen, but private individuals.
第 292 頁 - Her step was firm, and her countenance cheerful. She bore without shrinking the gaze of the spectators, and the sight of the scaffold, the block, and the executioner, and advanced into the hall with that grace and majesty which she had so often displayed in her happier days, and in the palace of her fathers. To aid her as she mounted the scaffold, Paulet offered his arm.
第 67 頁 - If the pontiff promised himself any particular benefit from this measure, the result must have disappointed his expectations. The time was gone by, when the thunders of the Vatican could shake the thrones of princes.

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