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The History Of England, From The Invasion Of Julius Caesar To The Revolution Of 1688
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- The History Of England, From The Invasion Of Julius Caesar To The Revolution Of 1688
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- Hume, David
- Smollett, Tobias George
- Verleger
- Robinson
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- London
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- 1833
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- XIV Seiten, 10 ungezählte Seiten, 1354 Seiten, 60 ungezählte Seiten
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- English
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- 2019 9 000401
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- Chap. II. Egbert – Ethelwolf – Ethelbald and Ethelbert – Ethered – Alfred the Great – Edward the elder – Athelstan – Edmund – Edred – Edwy – Edgar – Edward the Martyr
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- MonographieThe History Of England, From The Invasion Of Julius Caesar To ... -
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- TitelblattTitelblatt III
- KapitelThe Life Of David Hume, Esq. Written By Himself V
- KapitelLetter From Adam Smith, LL. D. To William Strahan, Esq. XI
- InhaltsverzeichnisInhaltsverzeichnis -
- KapitelChapter I. The Britons – Romans – Saxons – the Heptarchy – The ... 1
- KapitelChap. II. Egbert – Ethelwolf – Ethelbald and Ethelbert – Ethered ... 15
- KapitelChap. III. Ethelred — Settlement of the Normans — Edmund ... 29
- KapitelChap. IV. William the Conqueror. Consequences of the battle of ... 44
- KapitelChap. V. William Rufus. Accession of William Rufus — Conspiracy ... 56
- KapitelChap. VI. Henry I. The Crusades — Accession of Henry — Marriage ... 61
- KapitelChap. VII. Stephen. Accession of Stephen—War with ... 69
- KapitelChap. VIII. Henry II. State of Europe — of France — First acts ... 74
- KapitelChap. IX. Henry II. State of Ireland — Conquest of that island — ... 86
- KapitelChap. X. Richard I. The king’s preparations for the crusade — ... 96
- KapitelChap. XI. John. Accession of the king — His marriage — War with ... 104
- KapitelChap. XII. Henry III. Settlement of the government — General ... 117
- KapitelChap. XIII. Edward I. Civil administration of the king — ... 137
- KapitelChap. XIV. Edward II. Weakness of the king — His passion for ... 158
- KapitelChap. XV. Edward III. War with Scotland — Execution of the Earl ... 167
- KapitelChap. XVI. Institution of the garter — State of France — Battle ... 184
- KapitelChap. XVII. Richard II. Government during the minority — ... 196
- KapitelChap. XVIII. Henry IV. Title of the king — An insurrection — An ... 209
- KapitelChap. XIX. Henry V. The king’s former disorders — His ... 214
- KapitelChap. XX. Henry VI. Government during the minority — State of ... 222
- KapitelChap. XXI. Henry VI. Claim of the duke of York to the crown — ... 234
- KapitelChap. XXII. Edward IV. Battle of Touton — Henry escapes into ... 242
- KapitelChap. XXIII. Edward V. And Richard III. Edward V. — State of the ... 253
- KapitelChap. XXIV. Henry VII. Edward V. — State of the court — The earl ... 262
- KapitelChap. XXV. State of foreign affairs — State of Scotland — of ... 268
- KapitelChapt. XXVI. Perkin retires to Scotland — Insurrection in the ... 276
- KapitelChap. XXVII. Henry VIII. Popularity of the new king — His ... 285
- KapitelChap. XXVIII. Wolsey’s administration — Scotch affairs — ... 293
- KapitelChap. XXIX. Digression concerning the ecclesiastical state — ... 299
- KapitelChapt.. XXX. Scruples concerning the king’s marriage — The king ... 309
- KapitelChap. XXXI. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius ... 320
- KapitelChap. XXXII. Disputation with Lambert — A Parliament — Law of ... 334
- KapitelChap. XXXIII. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius ... 342
- KapitelChap. XXXIV. Edward VI. State of the regency — Innovations in ... 354
- KapitelChap. XXXV. Discontents of the people — Insurrections — Conduct ... 364
- KapitelChap. XXXVI. Mary. The History of England from the Invasion of ... 372
- KapitelChap. XXXVII. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius ... 381
- KapitelChap. XXXVIII. Elizabeth. Queen’s popularity — Re-establishment ... 390
- KapitelChap. XXXIX. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius ... 404
- KapitelChap. XL. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius ... 423
- KapitelChap. XLI. Affairs of Scotland — Spanish affairs — Sir Francis ... 441
- KapitelChap. XLII. Zeal of the catholics — Babington’s conspiracy — ... 452
- KapitelChap. XLIII. French affairs — Murder of the duke of Guise — ... 469
- KapitelChap. XLIV. State of Ireland — Tyrone’s rebellion — Essex sent ... 478
- KapitelChap. XLV. James I. Introduction — James’s first transactions — ... 491
- KapitelChap. XLVI. Gunpowder conspiracy — A parliament — Truce betwixt ... 497
- KapitelChap. XLVII. Death of Prince Henry — Marriage of the Princess ... 504
- KapitelChap. XLVIII. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius ... 511
- KapitelChap. XLIX. Negociations with regard to the marriage and the ... 518
- KapitelChap. L. Charles I. A parliament at Westminster — At Oxford — ... 526
- KapitelChap. LI. Third parliament — Petition of right — Prorogation — ... 534
- KapitelChap. LII. Peace with France — Peace with Spain — State of the ... 543
- KapitelChap. LIII. Discontents in Scotland — Introduction of the canons ... 552
- KapitelChap. LIV. Meeting of the long parliament — Strafford and Laud ... 561
- KapitelChap. LV. Settlement of Scotland — Conspiracy in Ireland — ... 574
- KapitelChap. LVI. Commencement of the civil war — State of parties — ... 589
- KapitelChap. LVII. Invasion of the Scots — Battle of Marston-moor — ... 601
- KapitelChap. LVIII. Montrose’s victories — The new model of the army — ... 610
- KapitelChap. LIX. Mutiny of the army — The king seized by Joyce — The ... 619
- KapitelChap. LXVII. The Popish plot – Oates’s narrative – And character ... 626
- KapitelChap. LX. The Commonwealth. State of England – Of Scotland – Of ... 635
- KapitelChap. LXI. Cromwel’s birth and private life — Barebone’s ... 650
- KapitelChap. LXII. Richard acknowledged protector — A parliament — ... 665
- KapitelChap. LXIII. Charles II. New ministery — Act of indemnity — ... 677
- KapitelChap. LXIV. A new session — Rupture with Holland — A new session ... 687
- KapitelChap. LXV. A Parliament — The Cabal — Their Characters — Their ... 699
- KapitelChap. LXVI. Schemes of the Cabal — Remonstrances of Sir William ... 713
- KapitelChap. LXVII. The Popish plot – Oates’s narrative – And character ... 726
- KapitelChap. LXVIII. State of parties – State of the ministry – ... 738
- KapitelChap. LXIX. State of affairs in Ireland — Shaftesbury acquitted ... 747
- KapitelChap. LXX. James II. King’s first transactions — A parliament — ... 759
- KapitelChap. LXXI. Conduct of the prince of Orange — He forms a league ... 771
- AnhangAppendix 786
- KapitelThe history of England from the revolution to the death of ... 823
- KapitelThe history of England from the revolution to the death of ... 996
- KapitelThe history of England from the revolution to the death of ... 1106
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HISTORY OF ENGLAND. [Chap. II. similarity of these institutions to the customs of the ancient Germans, to the practice of the other northern conquerors, and to the Saxon laws during the Heptarchy, prevents us from regarding Alfred as the sole author of this plan of government; and leads us rather to think, that, like a wise man, he contented himself with reforming, extending, and executin'; the institutions which he found previously estab lished. But, on the whole, such success attended his legis lation, that every thing bore suddenly a new face in Eng land : robberies and iniquities of all kinds were repressed by the punishment or reformation of the criminals : r and so exact was the general police, that Alfred, it is said, hung up, by way of bravado, golden bracelets near the highways; and no man dared to touch them. 6 Yet, amidst these rigours of justice, this great prince preserved the most sa cred regard to the liberty of his people ; and it is a memora- blesentimentpreserved in his will,That it was just the Eng lish should for ever remain as free as their own thoughts. 1 As good morals and knowledge are almost inseparable, in every age, though not in every individual, the care of Alfred for the encouragement of learning among his sub jects was another useful branch of his legislation, and tend ed to reclaim the English from their former dissolute and ferocious manners : but the king was guided in this pur suit, less by political views, than by his natural bept and propensity towards letters. When he came to the throne, he found the nation sunk into the grossest ignorance ano barbarism, proceeding from the continued disorders in the government, and from the ravages of the Danes : the mo nasteries were destroyed, the monks butchered or dis persed, their libraries burnt; and thus the only seats of erudition in those ages were totally subverted. Alfred him self complains, that on his accession he knew not one per son, south of the Thames, who could so much as interpret the Latin service; and very few in the northern parts, who had reached even that pitch of erudition. But this prince invited over the most celebrated scholars from all parts of Europe; he established schools every where for the in struction of his people; he founded, at least repaired, the university of Oxford, and endowed it with many privileges, revenues, and immunities; he enjoined by law all free holders possessed of two hvdes u of land or more, to send their children to school for their instruction ; he gave pre ferment both in church and state to such only as had made some proficiency in knowledge : and by all these expedi ents he had the satisfaction, before his death, to see a great change in the face of affairs; and in a work of his, which is still extant, he congratulates himself on the progress which learning, under his patronage, had already made in England. But the most effectual expedient employed by Alfred, for the encouragement of learning, was his own example, and the constant assiduity with which, notwithstanding the multiplicity and urgency of his affairs, he employed him self in the pursuits of knowledge. He usually divided his time into three equal portions : one was employed in sleep, and the refection offais body by diet and exercise ; another in the despatch of business; a third in study and devotion ; and that he might more exactly measure the hours, he made use of burning tapers of equal length, which he fixed in lanthorns ; w an expedient suited to that rude age, when the geometry of dialling, and the mechanism of clocks and watches, were totally unknown. And by such a regular distribution of his time, though he often laboured under great bodily infirmities, x this martial hero, who fought in person fifty-six battles by sea and land,.? was able, during a life of no extraordinary length, to acquire more know ledge, and even to compose more books, than most studi ous men, though blessed with the greatest leisure and ap plication, have, in more fortunate ages, made the object of their uninterrupted industry. Sensible that the people, at all times, especially when their understandings are obstructed by ignorance and bad education, are not much susceptible of speculative instruc- r Ingulph. p. 27- s W. Malmes. lib. 2. cap. 4. t Asser. p. 24. u A liyde contained land sufficient to employ one plough. See JI. Hunt. lib. 6. in A. D. 1008. Annal. Waverl. in A. D. 1083. Gervase of Til bury says, it commonly contained about 100 acres. w Asser. p. 20. W.’Malm. lib. 2. cap. 4. Ingulph. p. 870. x Asser. p. 4. 12, 13. 17- y W. M a Im. lib. 4. cap. 4. z Asser. p. 13. a Spelman, p. 124. Abbas Rieval, p. 355. tion, Alfred endeavoured to convey his morality by apo logues, parables, stories, apophthegms, couched in poetry; and besides propagating among his subjects former com positions of that kind, which he found in the Saxon tongue, 2 he exercised his genius in inventing works of a like nature,® as well as in translating from the Greek the elegant fables of ?Esop. He also gave Saxon translations of Orosius’s and Bede’s histories; and of Boethius con cerning the consolation of philosophy. 1 * And he deemed it nowise derogatory from his other great characters of sovereign, legislator, warrior, and politician, thus to lead the way to his people in the pursuits of literature. Meanwhile, this prince was not negligent in encourag ing the vulgar and mechanical arts, which have a more sensible, though not a closer, connexion with the interests of society. He invited, from all quarters, industrious foreigners to repeople his country, which had been deso lated by the ravages of the Danes. 6 He introduced and encouraged manufactures of all kinds; and no inventor or improver of any ingenious art did he suffer to go unre warded. 11 He prompted men of activity to betake them selves to navigation, to push commerce into the most re mote countries, and to acquire riches by propagating in dustry among their fellow-citizens. He set apart a seventh portion of his own revenue for maintaining a number of workmen, whom he constantly employed in rebuilding the ruined cities, castles, palaces, and monasteries. 6 Even the elegances of life were brought to him from the Medi terranean and the Indies ; f and his subjects, by seeing those productions of the peaceful arts, were taught to re spect the virtues of justice and industry, from which alone they could arise. Both living and dead, Alfred was re garded by foreigners, no less than by his own subjects, as the greatest prince after Charlemagne that had appeared in Europe during several ages, and as one of the wisest and best that had ever adorned the annals of any nation. Alfred had, by his wife, Ethelswitha, daughter of a Mercian earl, three sons and three daughters. The eldest son, Edmund, died without issue, in his father’s lifetime. The third, Ethelward, inherited his father’s passion for letters, and lived a private life. The second, Edward, succeeded to his power; and passes by the appellation of Edward the Elder, being the first of that name who sat on the English throne. EDWARD THE ELDER. This prince, who equalled his father in A D military talents, though inferior to him in knowledge and erudition,? found, immediately on his accession, a specimen of that turbulent life to which all princes and even all individuals were ex posed, in an age when men, less restrained by law or jus tice, and less occupied by industry, had no aliment for their inquietude, but wars, insurrections, convulsions, rapine, and depredation. Ethelwald, his cousin-german, son of King Ethelbert, the elder brother of Alfred, insisted on his preferable title; l> and arming his partisans, took possession of Winbume, where he seemed determined to defend himself to the last extremity, and to await the issue of his pretensions.* But when the king approached the town with a great army, Ethelwald, having the prospect of certain destruction, made his escape, and fled first into Normandy, thence into Northumberland ; where he hoped that the people who had been recently subdued by Alfred, and who were impatient of peace, would, on the intelli gence of that great prince’s death, seize the first pretence or opportunity of rebellion. The event did not disappoint his expectations : the Northumbrians declared for him ; k and Ethelwald having thus connected his interests with the Danish tribes, went beyond sea, and collecting a body of these freebooters, he excited the hopes of all those who had been accustomed to subsist by rapine and violence. 1 The East-Anglian Danes joined his party: the Five- tt b W. Malm. lib. 2. cap. 4. Brompton, p. 814. c Asser. p. 13. Flor. Wigorn. p. 588. d Asser. p. 20. n e Asser. p. 20. W. Malmes. lib. 2. cap. 4. f W. Malmes. lib. 2. cap. 4. g W. Malmes. lib. 2. cap. 5. Iloveden, p. 421. h Chron. Sax. p. 99. 100. « Ibid. p. 100. H. Hunting, lib. 5. p. 352. k Chron. Sax. p. 1(X». H. Hunting, lib. 5. p. 352. 1 Chron. Sax. p. ICO. Chron. Abb. St. Petn tie Burgo, p. 24.
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