The historical antiquities of Hertfordshire, Zväzok 2

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J.M. Mullinger, 1826
 

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Strana 386 - Elizabeth his wife, for and during the term and terms of their natural lives, and the life of the longer liver of them, and...
Strana 440 - Pluck up thy spirit, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short ; take heed, therefore, that thou strike not awry for saving of thine honesty.
Strana 471 - ... was a profound scholar, an able statesman, and a good Christian ; he was a dutiful son to his mother the church of England in her persecution, as well as in her great splendor ; a loyal subject to his sovereign in those worst of times, when it was accounted treason not to be a traitor. " As he lived seventy yean a pattern of virtue, so he died an example of patience and piety, the fourth of December, in the year of our Lord 1649.
Strana 325 - This image of our frailty, painted glass, Shews where the life and death of Alban was. A knight beheads the Martyr; but so soon, His eyes dropt out to see what he had done . And leaving their own head, seem'd with a tear To wail the other head laid mangled there : Because, before, his eyes no tears would shed, His eyes themselves like tears fall from his head.
Strana 473 - ... most exemplary, if not inimitable; witness (besides several other occasional meditations and prayers, ' full of the holy transports and raptures of a sanctified soul) her divine meditations upon every particular chapter in the Bible, written with her own hand, and never (till since her death) seen by any eye but her own, and her then dear, but now sorrowful husband, to the admiration both of her eminent piety in composing, and of her modesty in concealing.
Strana 473 - ... soul) her divine meditations upon every particular chapter in the Bible, written with her own hand, and never (till since her death) seen by any eye but her own, and her then dear, but now sorrowful husband, to the admiration both of her eminent piety in composing, and of her modesty in concealing. Then she was a most affectionate and observing wife to her husband, a most tender and indulgent mother to her children, a most kind and bountiful mistress to her family. In a word, she was so superlatively...
Strana 269 - Anno 1381, to the Bailiffs of this Borrough, commanding them upon sight thereof to cause chains to be made, and to hang the Bodies in them upon the same Gallowes, there to remain so long as one Piece might stick to another, according to the Judgment.
Strana 428 - Nobleness of blood, joined with virtue, counteth the person as most meet to the enterprising of any public service ; and for that cause it was, not for nought, that our ancient governors in this land did, with a special foresight and wisdom, provide, that none should be admitted into the houses of court, being seminaries sending forth men apt to the government of justice, except he were a gentleman of blood.
Strana 446 - And whereas by the statute 3 Jac. I. c. 7, s. 2, it was enacted, " that none shall from henceforth be admitted attorneys in any of the king's Courts of Record, but such as have been brought up in the same Courts, or otherwise well practised in soliciting of causes, and have been found by their dealings to be skilful and of honest disposition ; and that none be suffered to solicit any cause or causes in any of the Courts aforesaid, but only such as are known to be men of sufficient and honest disposition.
Strana 440 - I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.