Laurie's Graduated Series of Reading Lesson Books - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0217963455 ISBN 13: 9780217963459

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... a considerable number of facta distinctly ascertained, but often utterly inexplicable; we know their dates, too, so that we can follow them in order of time; but, as to the sequence, the connection of one with the other, it is utter darkness. One can make his way through this region of history only as a man travels along in an unknown road in a dark and stormy night. There comes a flash of light, giving a lurid and momentary conception of what is near; and, confiding to the knowledge thus gained, you venture onward in the dark, till you are startled by another flash that shows how, in a little distance, all your expectations of what lay before you are illusive, and that everything around you is totally different from what it was just before. Heed. VIEW OF THE "WAES OF THE HOSES. In the reign of Henry the Fifth that sovereign enjoyed in a high degree the unanimous and affectionate allegiance of his people; and let us, in the first place, consider whether there was anything in the character of his son, Henry the Sixth, that was calculated to alienate from him the duty and the love of his subjects. It may be truly said of this king that, having begun his reign in the months of infancy, he carried forward into the years of manhood a most childlike spirit; the very innocence and simplicity of childhood seem never to have deserted him. While the character of the king was negative upon the nation, there were several causes which, in the course of events, proved positive agencies of disaffection to the Lancastrian dynasty. During the minority, while Bedford was regent in France, the administration at home was perplexed and discordant, and the protector, Gloucester, had to struggle against the factious ambition of his rival, Cardinal Beaufort. H The mysterious ini...

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• ISBN 10: 0217963455
• ISBN 13: 9780217963459
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