The Expansion of Europe: A Social and Political History of the Modern World, 1415-1789

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الصفحة vii - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
الصفحة 313 - The good old rule, The simple plan, That he shall take who has the power, And he shall keep who can.
الصفحة 229 - It fluttered here and there, nor swept in vain The dusty haunts where futile echoes dwell, — Then, in a cadence soft as summer rain, And sad from Auburn voiceless, drooped and fell. It drooped and fell, and one...
الصفحة 350 - Malay seas ; and it was not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that the...
الصفحة 56 - BIRD of the bitter bright grey golden morn Scarce risen upon the dusk of dolorous years, First of us all and sweetest singer born Whose far shrill note the world of new men hears Cleave the cold shuddering shade as twilight clears ; When song new-born put off the old world's attire And felt its tune on her changed lips expire...
الصفحة 214 - I will cause a boy that driveth a plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost.
الصفحة 314 - Your mariners,' said the Spanish ambassador to Elizabeth, ' rob my master's subjects on the sea, and trade where they are forbidden to go ; they plunder our people in the streets of your towns ; they attack our vessels in your very harbours, and take our prisoners from them ; your preachers insult my master from their pulpits ; and when we apply for justice we are answered with threats.
الصفحة 408 - ... gaue commission for establishing Councels, to direct here; and to governe, and to execute there. To effect this, was spent another yeare, and by that, three ships were provided, one of 100 Tuns, another of 40. and a Pinnace of 20. The transportation of the company was committed to Captaine Christopher Newport, a Marriner well practised for the Westerne parts of America. But their orders for government were put in a box, not to be opened, nor the governours knowne vntill they arrived in Virginia.
الصفحة 70 - He sent forth also into the western parts of the world his faithful and blessed servants, Dominic and Francis, to enlighten, instruct, and build up in the faith.
الصفحة 281 - But during the whole of this period, as always, the blood of the martyrs became the seed of the Church.

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