 | James Anthony Froude - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...conquests of the Plantagenets was gone. Measured by substantial value, the loss of Calais was a gain. English princes were never again to lay claim to the...the 'brightest jewel in the English crown.' A jewel CH. 34. it was, useless, costly, but dearly prized. Over AD s the gate of Calais had once stood the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...conquests of the "°a Plantagenets was gone. Measured by substantial value, the loss of Calais was a gain. English princes were never again to lay claim to the...a perpetual irritation. But Calais was called the Guisnes. 507 'brightest jewel in the English crown.' A jewel 0H.34. it was, useless, costly, but dearly... | |
 | 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 850
...heart. Measured by substantial value, Mr. Froudc computes the loss of Calais to have been a gain ; English princes were never again to lay claim to the...French ; soil was a perpetual irritation. But Calais j was called the " brightest jewel in the English crown." Л jewel it was, useless, costly but dearly... | |
 | Robert Henlopen Labberton - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...months. The king ordered all the inhabitants to evacuate the town, and peopled it anew with English — a policy which probably preserved so long to his successors...of Calais had once stood the insolent inscription : " Tben shall the Frenchmen Calais win When iron and lead, like cork, shall swim;" and the Frenchmen... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...gone. last hold on French soil is lost. Measured by substantial value, the loss of Calais was a gain. English princes were never again to lay claim to the...Then shall the Frenchmen Calais win, When iron and lend like cork shall swim : " and the Frenchmen had won it, won it in fair and gallant fight. . If... | |
 | Robert Henlopen Labberton - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...policy which probably preserved so long to his successors the dominion of that important fortress. lie made it the staple of wool, leather, tin, and lead...a perpetual irritation. But Calais was called the " brightestjewel in the English crown." Л jewel it was, useless, costly, but dearly prized. Over the... | |
 | Herbert Russell Clinton - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...dominions of the Plantagenets was gone. Measured by substantial value the loss of Calais was a gain. English princes were never again to lay claim to the...jewel it was, useless, costly, but dearly prized. ... If Spain should rise suddenly into her ancient strength and tear Gibraltar from us, our mortification... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...dominions of the Plantagenets was gone. Measured by substantial value, the loss of Calais was a gain. English princes were never again to lay claim to the...stood the insolent inscription : — ' Then shall the Frenchman Calais win, Wheu iron and lead like cork shall swim : ' and the Frenchmen had won it, won... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...varieties of their fortune for 211 years. " Measured by substantial value, the loss of Calais was a gain. English princes were never again to lay claim to the...stood the insolent inscription — " ' Then shall the Frenchman Calais win, When iron and lead like cork shall swim ; ' LOSS OF CALAIS. and the Frenchmen... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...Plantagenets was gone. Measured by substantial value, the loss of «"" u l°"t' Calais was a gain. English princes were never again to lay claim to the...— " Then shall the Frenchmen Calais win, When iron ami lend like cork shall swim: " and the Frenchmen had won it, won it in fair and gallant fight. If... | |
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Measured by substantial value, the loss of Calais was a gain. English princes were never again to lay claim to the crown of France, and the possession of a fortress on French soil was a perpetual irritation. But Calais was called the 'brightest jewel... 
