Bolingbroke
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Bolingbroke
- Opposite top: Richard II is led captive to London by Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV.
- Henry Bolingbroke
- Lord Bolingbroke
Examples
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And then, in Lincolnshire, there are places such as Old Bolingbroke, near the southern end of the Wolds, with the remains of its castle (and it is that Bolingbroke).
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Yet the result was widely mistaken for a work by Bolingbroke himself, and was supposed, therefore, to have been meant in earnest.
Academic text (1991) -
I play no Richard II to his bolingbroke.
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Anyway, I feel like Bolingbroke needs to focus on other things than trying to down someone else's child because it could have been one of your family members.
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And then, in Lincolnshire, there are places such as Old Bolingbroke, near the southern end of the Wolds, with the remains of its castle (and it is that Bolingbroke).
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Carlyle was impressed by the opacity of the body and, as John Rosenberg points out, consistently rejected the old saw of St. John Bolingbroke that "history is philosophy teaching by examples." "Truly," he says, "if history is philosophy teaching by experience, the writer fitted to compose history is hitherto an unknown man."
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Weinsheimer examines common philosophical problems of understanding in the works of Swift, Locke, Toland, Bolingbroke, Hume, Reid, Blackstone, and Burke.
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Cultured politicians like Bolingbroke spoke contemptuously of learned lumber, while the most famous historian MP of the 18th century, Edward Gibbon (1737-94), saw no need to create a national archive.
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In Shakespeare's play, Henry Bolingbroke is a central character who eventually becomes King Henry IV.
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Henry Bolingbroke, who later became known as King Henry IV, was instrumental in the overthrow of Richard II.
Synonyms
A nobleman who becomes King Henry IV of England after deposing Richard II
King of England from 1399 to 1413 who took the throne from Richard II and faced many rebellions
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bolingbroke comes from an old place name meaning 'Boling's brook'; the second part is the old English broc, which means 'brook' or 'stream'. That's why a noble from that place was called Bolingbroke, and Henry used the name as his title when he became king.