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Lord God of Battles, aid! High lust and froward bearing, Proud heart, rebellious brow— Deaf ear and soul uncaring, We seek Thy mercy now! The sinner that forswore Thee, The fool that passed Thee by, Our times are known before Thee— Lord, grant us strength to die!
Despite Pickles claiming his act restored the rights of councils to hold prayers as part of official agendas, it did not apply to all councils such as some town and parish councils. [6] Conservative Party MP Jake Berry introduced the Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Bill as a Private Members Bill , in order to affirm the rights of ...
Battles involving Great Britain (21 C, 265 P) A. Battles of the First Anglo-Afghan War (6 P) ... Battle of Boomplaats; British campaign in the Caribbean (1803)
It is often misquoted as "peace in our time", a phrase already familiar to the British public by its longstanding appearance in the Book of Common Prayer. A passage in that book translated from the 7th-century hymn "Da pacem Domine" reads, "Give peace in our time, O Lord; because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God."
Great Britain (from 1707) Jacobites: Civil War, Royalist victory. in England, Scotland and Ireland Williamite War in Ireland (1688–91) - The Battle of the Boyne saw the last battle between two rival claimants for the throne; Jacobite rising of 1689 (1689-92) Jacobite rising of 1715 (1715–16) Jacobite rising of 1719 (1719)
The book was a parody of contemporary writers and would thus be referring to them sarcastically as a "great race". [citation needed] Americans turned against Grant's ideas in the 1930s; his book was no longer sold, and his supporters fell away. [5]: 347 In Europe, however, Nordic theory was adopted during the 1930s by the Nazis and others ...
The Royal Prayer Book (London, British Library Royal MS 2.A.XX) is a collection of prayers believed to have been copied in the late eighth century or the early ninth century. [ 2 ] : 123 n.2 [ 3 ] : 317–318 [no.248] It was written in West Mercia , likely either in or around Worcester.
The second part consists of a condemnation of five British kings, and as it is the only contemporary information about them, it is of particular interest to scholars of British history. Gildas swathes the condemnations in allegorical beasts from the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation , likening the kings to the beasts described there: a ...