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Tudors : Welsh dynasty that ruled England from 1485 to 1603, represented by Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, & Elizabeth I.

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... powerful kingship in the evolution of the nationtype, as it actually developed in mediaeval times, cannot be exaggerated. Even in liberty-loving, insular and individualistic England, the Plantagenets and Tudors were the real and active nucleus round which the nation grew into firm form and into adult strength; and in Continental countries the part played by the Capets and their successors in France, by the... as to make it one single, undivided, perfectly efficient and perfectly directed mind and body. 3 It is from this point of view that we shall most intelligently understand the attempt of the Tudors and the Stuarts to impose both monarchical authority and religious uniformity on the people and seize the real sense of the religious wars in France, the Catholic monarchical rule in Spain with its ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   The Human Cycle
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... illusions of the maniac are founded on an extravagant misfitting of actuals, as when the lunatic combines himself, kingship and England and sits in imagination on the throne of the Plantagenets and Tudors. Again, when we look into the origin of mental error, we find normally that it is a miscombination, misplacement, misuse, misunderstanding or misapplication of elements of experience and knowledge ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   The Life Divine
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... that this Henry had many wives, but the reason for his six marriages is usually less well known: Henry did not get a son from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, which meant that the house of the Tudors would lose the crown and that the kingdom might be ruled by a foreign king. Catherine gave him a daughter, Mary. Anne Boleyn, whom he married after repudiating Catherine, bore him Elizabeth. Only from ...

... the crafts of all nations at various periods—all kinds of metal work from gold to steel, pottery and glass, Gothic tapestry, wood-carving and antique furniture, drawings, paintings, miniatures of the Tudor age. I was lost in all this magnificent display of curios. I liked the terracotta virgin with the laughing child and a Kuan-yin figure in painted and gilded wood which was Chinese, a lady holding ...

... Later Years. Totowa: Littlefield, Adams, 1967. The World as I See It. New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. Schilpp, Paul Arthur. Albert Einstein: Philosopher - Scientist. New York: Tudor, 1951. Talbot, Michael. Mysticism and the New Physics. New York: 1981. Page 263 ...

... desired humorous effects. Later on we may profitably compare these to the techniques employed by Sri Aurobindo in his humorous utterances. (1)From Nicholas Bacon: Sir Nicholas Bacon, a Tudor judge in the time of Elizabeth, was once importuned by a criminal to spare his life on account of kinship. "How so?" demanded the judge. "Because my name is Hog and yours is Bacon; and hog ...