Likewise so gifted and adorned with mental accomplishments of each and every soil that we believe him to have handful of equals in the world”. Henry VIII painted beside his youngsters in an allegory of the Tudor dynasty. Catherine Howard is accused of adultery and executed in the Tower of London. Henry VIII of England and Anne of Cleves divorce by mutual consent. In the foreground on the left an…Read More
When the law was passed in 1701, Sophia , 5 of her kids , and 3 legitimate grandchildren were alive. A year and a half ahead of George I ascended to the throne, his daughter and his nephew married. The outcome is that all the members of the Line of Succession to the British throne are either a descendant of George II of Excellent Britain, or of his sister Sophia…Read More
On the 5th of May Charles reached the house of Montreuil in Southwell exactly where he met a Scottish negotiator. The negotiator demanded that the royalist garrison at Newark ought to surrender, the king must sign the Convenant and establish Presbytery in England and Wales and order Montrose to lay down his arms in Scotland. King Charles had been staying at Raglan Castle but the fall of his help in…Read More
George Lewis was a excellent friend of the Whigs, and the queen’s Tory ministers felt positive that if he became king he would drive them from energy. Lord Bolinglroke was the most brilliant but the least sincere of the Tory statesmen. He formed a plan for securing the throne for Anne’s brother, the son of James II, whom most Englishmen referred to as The Pretender. Prince Ernst August was the…Read More
The Prince was received by His Excellency the Earl of Mulgrave—afterwards Marquess of Normanby—and Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, Main-General Trollope and the members of the Provincial Government. William Young study an address from the Executive Council of the Province in which specific reference was created to the Nova Scotians who had won laurels “beneath the Imperial flag” in the recent Crimean campaign. William Annand and other folks and, in replying,…Read More
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, Hood my unmanned blood, bating in my cheeks, With thy black mantle, till strange really like grow bold, Assume correct adore acted straightforward modesty. ♪♪♪ – – -Lovers can see to do their amorous rites By their own beauties or, if like be blind, It most effective agrees with evening. ♪♪♪ -I protest I under no circumstances injured thee, But love thee a lot…Read More
A single ought, of course, to don’t forget that when Dickens was writing, the London ‘mob’ still existed. (Today there is no mob, only a flock.) Low wages and the growth and shift of population had brought into existence a enormous, hazardous slum-proletariat, and till the early middle of the nineteenth century there was hardly such a point as a police force. When the brickbats began to fly there was…Read More