A Child's History of England

Upon the whole it is not so bad a thing to be a commoner.

But Death—the enemy who is not to be bought off or deceived, and on whom no money, and no treachery has any effect—presented

This paper the Parliament afterwards caused to be burned by the common hangman; which I am sorry for, as I wish it had been framed and glazed and hung up in some public place, as a monument of baseness for the scorn of mankind.

It is not the sea alone that is bidden to go ‘thus far, and no farther.’ The great command goes forth to all the kings upon the earth, and went to Canute in the year one thousand and thirty-five, and stretched him dead upon his bed.