Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, 第 7 卷Harding and Lepard, 1835 |
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第 7 頁 - I am slain !" seconding his speech with all the force he had to cast me. But being too weak, after I had defended his assault, I easily became master of him, laying him on his back ; when being upon him, I re-demanded if he would request his life ; but it seemed he prized it not at so dear a rate to be beholden for it ; bravely replying
第 8 頁 - For my lord's surgeon, when nobody dreamt of it, came full at me with his lord's sword ; and had not mine with my sword interposed himself, I had been slain by those base hands ; although my lord Bruce, weltering in his blood, and past all expectation of life, conformable to all his former carriage, which was undoubtedly noble, cried out,
第 11 頁 - The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is, for aught I know, a crowning mercy. Surely, if it be not, such a one we shall have, if this provoke those that are concerned in it to thankfulness ; and the Parliament to do the will of Him who hath done His will for it, and for the Nation; — whose good pleasure it is to establish the Nation and the Change of the Government, by making the People so willing to the defence thereof, and so signally blessing the endeavours of your servants...
第 6 頁 - ... level through my body, and almost to my back. And there we wrestled for the two greatest and dearest prizes we could ever expect trial for, honour and life. In which struggling my hand, having but an ordinary glove on it, lost one of her servants, though the meanest; which hung by a skin, and to sight yet remaineth as before, and I am put in hope one day to recover the use of it again.
第 12 頁 - A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.
第 7 頁 - ... it. This King in his first year sent him the Garter; which, in many respects, he had expected from the last. And the sense of that honour made him so readily comply with the King's command in attending him, when he had no confidence in the undertaking, nor any inclination to the Scots ; who, he thought, had too much guilt upon them in having depressed the crown to be made instruments of repairing and restoring it.
第 4 頁 - But as soon as the king was murdered, it was ordered that the children should be removed into the country, that they might not be the objects of respect to draw the eyes and application of people towards them. The allowance was retrenched, that their attendants and servants might be lessened; and order was given, " that they should be treated " without any addition of titles, and that they should " sit at their meat as the children of the family did,
第 6 頁 - I bade him alight, which with all willingness he quickly granted, and there, in a meadow ancle deep in water at the least, bidding farewell to our doublets, in our shirts began to charge each other, having afore commanded our surgeons to withdraw themselves a pretty distance from us, conjuring them, besides, as they respected our...
第 7 頁 - He was of an excellent humour, and very easy to live with ; and under a grave countenance, covered the most of mirth, and caused more than any man of the most pleasant disposition. He never used...