The Patriot King Displayed; In the Life and Reign of Henry VIII, King of England, from the Time of His Quarrel with the Pope to His Death (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1769 Excerpt: ... SECT. XI. Sir Thomas More condemned and executed-His characler. FO R the same filly cause died Sir Thomas More. "A man (faith that faithful and laborious martyr Tin-dal who lived at that time, ) nothing inferior to Wolscy, for lying, feigning, and bearing two faces in one hood." That happy expression, Two faces in one bood, exhibits a more lively picture of the man, than any of those left us by his friend Hans Holbein. More was chancellor, his father a judge. His custom 'was in a morning, in Westminster-hall, to ask a bles sing from his father on the king'sbench, and then to enter the court of chancery. Was this humility or vanity? Did not the father exult in having his son chancellor? Was not the chancellor cellor pleased in having a judge for his father? Was it not an illaudable ostentation of filial piety? A blowing the trumpet before alms? A fasting with a dirty face, to be seen of men. Facetious he was, and a joker, to such a degree of affectation, as not to refrain even upon the. scaffold: Yet so gloomy a bigot, as in defence of monks and monasteries, to write a supplication in behalf of the souls in purgatory. His friend Erasmus calls him another Democritus, says " he had a perpetual grin upon his face, and affectedly walked with one shoulder higher than the other." And, " A man's attire, excessive laughter, and gait shew what he is," faith the wife son of Sirach.--When lord chancellor, he was caught in the quire in a surplice, amongst the singing men, by Norfolk. "God's body, quoth the duke, What A parish clerk You dishonour the King and his officer."--And what what had an old fellow past fifty, titjoying a spirited second wife, to do with a hair shirt, and a whip with knotted eords, to flog himself withall? Did he understand the use of that discip...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1769 Excerpt: ... SECT. XI. Sir Thomas More condemned and executed-His characler. FO R the same filly cause died Sir Thomas More. "A man (faith that faithful and laborious martyr Tin-dal who lived at that time, ) nothing inferior to Wolscy, for lying, feigning, and bearing two faces in one hood." That happy expression, Two faces in one bood, exhibits a more lively picture of the man, than any of those left us by his friend Hans Holbein. More was chancellor, his father a judge. His custom 'was in a morning, in Westminster-hall, to ask a bles sing from his father on the king'sbench, and then to enter the court of chancery. Was this humility or vanity? Did not the father exult in having his son chancellor? Was not the chancellor cellor pleased in having a judge for his father? Was it not an illaudable ostentation of filial piety? A blowing the trumpet before alms? A fasting with a dirty face, to be seen of men. Facetious he was, and a joker, to such a degree of affectation, as not to refrain even upon the. scaffold: Yet so gloomy a bigot, as in defence of monks and monasteries, to write a supplication in behalf of the souls in purgatory. His friend Erasmus calls him another Democritus, says " he had a perpetual grin upon his face, and affectedly walked with one shoulder higher than the other." And, " A man's attire, excessive laughter, and gait shew what he is," faith the wife son of Sirach.--When lord chancellor, he was caught in the quire in a surplice, amongst the singing men, by Norfolk. "God's body, quoth the duke, What A parish clerk You dishonour the King and his officer."--And what what had an old fellow past fifty, titjoying a spirited second wife, to do with a hair shirt, and a whip with knotted eords, to flog himself withall? Did he understand the use of that discip...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

34

ISBN-13

978-1-151-63847-2

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9781151638472

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1-151-63847-1



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