The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating b...ulwark of the island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's s...on to marry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king--and of a King of England too, and thin...k foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which, rather than any dishonour should grow by me, I myself will take up arms--I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lords and Commoners of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors; a nation not slow and... dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty tho...usand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the Sphinx wasp does, to find that its papa and mamma have not only left ample provision at its elbow but have been eaten by sparrows some weeks before we began to live consciously on our own accounts?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail--its roof may shake--the wind may ...blow through it--the storm may enter--the rain may enter--but the King of England cannot enter!--all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »