Memoirs of Celebrated Women, Količina 1George Payne Rainsford James E. L. Carey, 1839 |
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Stran 174 - any thing else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world. Or else—I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, nay, prevented sometimes, with pinches, nips, and bobs, and
Stran 190 - steadfast faith (if it may be lawful for the daughter so to write to the father) the Lord that hath hitherto strengthened you, so continue to keep you, that at the last we may meet in heaven, with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. " I am, " Your obedient daughter till death, " JANE DUDLEY.
Stran 193 - and nothing of the titles to the crown; from all guilty intentions I do wash my hands in innocency before God and you! Assist me with your prayers! Having uttered these words, she caused herself to be disrobed by her women; and, after exclaiming in a clear voice,
Stran 202 - inspired her, and bitterly observed that nature had mistaken the two sexes, and had endowed Bryennius with the soul of a woman. The character of her two brothers, John and Isaac, form a bright contrast to that of Anna Comnena; they maintained the fraternal concord, which Gibbon justly calls
Stran 189 - elapsed, she was made acquainted with the disasters of her father, who, during this interval, was brought to the Tower. On receiving this intelligence, she wrote to the duke that memorable letter, which we will now partially transcribe; it runs thus :— " FATHER, " Although it has pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet
Stran 186 - Even the Duke of Suffolk, who commanded in the Tower, finding resistance fruitless, opened the gates, and declared for her; while the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey, after a nominal reign of ten days, forced upon her by the criminal ambition of others, was detained as a prisoner in that fortress, which she had entered as a sovereign!
Stran 160 - was brought to a close with a great and indiscriminate slaughter of the fugitives. The same day on which this decisive battle was. fought, Queen Margaret and her son, now about eighteen years of age and a young prince of the greatest promise, arrived at
Stran 189 - can so patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woful days, than if all the world had been given into my possession, with life lengthened at my own will: and albeit, I am
Stran 192 - on which she had just written three sentences, on seeing her husband's dead body; one in Greek, another in Latin, and a third in English. The purport of these
Stran 190 - yet there is nothing which can to me be more welcome than from this vale of misery to aspire to that heavenly throne of all joy and pleasure with Christ my Saviour;