 A King, whose character may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, — such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome....  The Difficulties of Protestantism - Page 150de John Fletcher - 1829 - 151 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1914 - 768 pages
...character may be described best by saying that he was despotism itself personified; unprincipled ministers; a rapacious aristocracy; a servile parliament. Such...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest." Some of the most unworthy motives and adjuvants were mixed up in the reform movement. Indeed, it is... | |
 | Gerhard Richard Lomer, Margaret Ashmun - 1914 - 360 pages
...living, amidst the clamors of his enemies; and praised him dead, amidst the silence of his friends. 7. The work which had been begun by Henry, the murderer...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest. 8. So spake the Apostate Angel, though in pain. 9. Out burst all with one accord. 10. A proverb is... | |
 | Hensley Henson - 1921 - 318 pages
...character may be best described by saying that he was despotism personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, such...which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. . . . Sprung from brutal passion, nurtured by selfish policy, the Reformation in England displayed... | |
 | Hensley Henson - 1921 - 320 pages
...character may be best described by saying that he was despotism personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, such...which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome. . . . Sprung from brutal passion, nurtured by selfish policy, the Reformation in England displayed... | |
 | Joseph Pope - 2001 - 130 pages
...misunderstanding. I read in his essay on Hallam's Constitutional History that the Reformation in England was begun by Henry, the murderer of his wives, was continued...little of what had in other countries distinguished it.8 And there is much more in Macaulay to the same effect. Of the chief factors in that great drama,... | |
 | Guizot (François, M.) - 2019 - 236 pages
...character may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, such...which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome." On the other hand, the earlier volumes of Mr Froude's History of England endeavour to show that Henry... | |
 | 1894 - 680 pages
...the most Protestant historian, " a king who was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, such...which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome." And for that yoke was substituted, as Hyndman reminds my fellow-countrymen, a yoke far more galling.... | |
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