Look now, my lord, holy simplicity was well enough in its day, but its day is over. We’re at war. Just because the Emperor’s soldiers aren’t running down the street, don’t deceive yourself—this is a war and you are in the enemy camp.” The bishop is silent. He sways a little on his stool. Sniffs. “I see why Wolsey retained you. You are a ruffian and

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Is he some parish clerk, the King of England? Or some child? This would not happen in France; their king keeps his churchmen under his hand. Master Tyndale says, ‘One king, one law, is God’s ordinance in every realm.’ I have read his book, The Obedience of a Christian Man. I myself have shown it to the king and marked the passages that touch on his

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Cornwallis and his troops were holed up on the bluff of Yorktown village, which was set above the broad, gleaming expanse of the York River, with the town of Gloucester lying directly across the water. This bucolic spot was more salubrious than the low-lying swamps nearby. Most British troops stayed behind the main fortifications, but Cornwallis

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Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned ; we have remonstrated ; we have sup¬ plicated ; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyranni¬ cal hands of the ministry... See more