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America (Netherlands) (search for this): entry james-i
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England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry james-i
James I., 1566-
King of England, etc.; born in Edinburgh Castle, June 19, 1566; son of Mary Queen of Scots and Henry Lord Darnley.
Of him Charles Dickens writes: He was ugly, awkward, and shuffling, both in mind and person.
His tongue was much too large for his mouth, his legs were much too weak for his body, and his dull g gree that I doubt if there be anything more shameful in the annals of human nature!
James was the sixth King of Scotland of that name, and came to the throne of England, after experiencing many vicissitudes, March 24, 1603.
He was regarded as a Presbyterian king, and the Puritans expected not only the blessings of toleration a beginning of his reign.
Glad to get rid of troublesome subjects, he readily granted charters for settlements in America; and in 1612 two heretics were burned in England, the last execution of that kind that occurred in that country.
His son Henry, Prince of Wales, died the same year, and his daughter Elizabeth was married to the
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry james-i
Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry james-i
Hampton Court (Jamaica) (search for this): entry james-i
London (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry james-i
James I (search for this): entry james-i
James I., 1566-
King of England, etc.; born in Edinburgh Castle, June 19, 1566; son of Mary Queen of Scots and Henry Lord Darnley.
Of him Charles Dickens writes: He was ugly, awkward, and shuffling, both in mind and person.
His tongue was much too large for his mouth, his legs were much too weak for his body, and his dull google-eyes stared and rolled like an idiot's. He was cunning, covetous, wasteful, idle, drunken, greedy, dirty, cowardly, a great swearer, and the most conceited man on earth.
His figure—what was commonly called rickety from his birth—presented the most ridiculous appearance that can be imagined, dressed in thick-padded clothes, as a safeguard against being stabbed (of which he lived in constant fear), of a grass-green color from head to foot, with a hunting horn dangling at his side instead of a sword, and his hat and feather sticking over one eye or hanging on the back of his head, as he happened to toss it on. He used to
James I. loll on the necks of
Mary Queen (search for this): entry james-i
James I., 1566-
King of England, etc.; born in Edinburgh Castle, June 19, 1566; son of Mary Queen of Scots and Henry Lord Darnley.
Of him Charles Dickens writes: He was ugly, awkward, and shuffling, both in mind and person.
His tongue was much too large for his mouth, his legs were much too weak for his body, and his dull google-eyes stared and rolled like an idiot's. He was cunning, covetous, wasteful, idle, drunken, greedy, dirty, cowardly, a great swearer, and the most conceited man on earth.
His figure—what was commonly called rickety from his birth—presented the most ridiculous appearance that can be imagined, dressed in thick-padded clothes, as a safeguard against being stabbed (of which he lived in constant fear), of a grass-green color from head to foot, with a hunting horn dangling at his side instead of a sword, and his hat and feather sticking over one eye or hanging on the back of his head, as he happened to toss it on. He used to
James I. loll on the necks of
William A. Buckingham (search for this): entry james-i