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Pagina 106
... says that whenever one of his ministers fell , the king was always at hand with a full inventory of his faults . His quickness of apprehension was extraordinary , and was the chief source of his wit . Many of his witticisms were ...
... says that whenever one of his ministers fell , the king was always at hand with a full inventory of his faults . His quickness of apprehension was extraordinary , and was the chief source of his wit . Many of his witticisms were ...
Pagina 109
... says that whenever one of his ministers fell , the king was always at hand with a full inventory of his faults . His quickness of apprehension was extraordinary , When after the battle of Worcester a re- and was the chief source of his ...
... says that whenever one of his ministers fell , the king was always at hand with a full inventory of his faults . His quickness of apprehension was extraordinary , When after the battle of Worcester a re- and was the chief source of his ...
Pagina 134
... says that ' in the five last years of his life he became more known by his constant preaching in pri- vate meetings in the great city . ' Samuel Parker , in his ' History of his own Time , ' p . 71 , vaguely says that he was engaged in ...
... says that ' in the five last years of his life he became more known by his constant preaching in pri- vate meetings in the great city . ' Samuel Parker , in his ' History of his own Time , ' p . 71 , vaguely says that he was engaged in ...
Pagina 138
... says Burnet , that it made the king our pope . ' Nor in spite of strong pressure from his friend Leighton , now bishop of Dunblane , would he accept a bishopric . In 1670 , however , when Leighton became archbishop of Glasgow ...
... says Burnet , that it made the king our pope . ' Nor in spite of strong pressure from his friend Leighton , now bishop of Dunblane , would he accept a bishopric . In 1670 , however , when Leighton became archbishop of Glasgow ...
Pagina 148
... says in it that nineteen - twentieths of his composition is pride . The editor of the 1842 edition of his Works ' ( i . cxvi ) says that one day he snatched a pistol from his pocket , and , holding it to his forehead , ex- claimed ...
... says in it that nineteen - twentieths of his composition is pride . The editor of the 1842 edition of his Works ' ( i . cxvi ) says that one day he snatched a pistol from his pocket , and , holding it to his forehead , ex- claimed ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 207 - For the Church of England, I am persuaded that the constant doctrine of it is so pure and orthodox, that whosoever believes it and lives according to it, undoubtedly he shall be saved; and that there is no error in it which may necessitate or warrant any man to disturb the peace or renounce the communion of it.
Pagina 292 - Divi Britannici, being a Remark upon the Lives of all the Kings of this Isle, from the year of the world 2855, unto the year of grace 1660, fol.
Pagina 31 - The whole Works of Homer, Prince of Poets, in his Iliads and Odysses, translated according to the Greeke, by George Chapman.
Pagina 109 - Paint me an angel, with wings and a trumpet, to trumpet my name over the world.
Pagina 202 - England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good of their own private families, much less for the regulating of companies, and foreign commerce " (Hamilton's New Account of India, i.232).
Pagina 371 - The Tomb of Alexander, a Dissertation on the Sarcophagus, brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum.
Pagina 54 - Charta, and the other six statutes insisted upon for the subjects' liberty, to be all in force, and assures you that he will maintain all his subjects in the just freedom of their persons and safety of their estates, and that he will govern according to the laws and statutes of this realm, and that you shall find as much security in his Majesty's royal word and promise as in the strength of any law ye can make, so that hereafter ye shall never have cause to complain.
Pagina 64 - For the people. And truly I desire their liberty and freedom as much as anybody whomsoever. But I must tell you that their liberty and freedom consists in having of government: those laws by which their life and their goods may be most their own. It is not for having share in government, sir, that is nothing pertaining to them.
Pagina 106 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Pagina 113 - Enquiry into the authenticity of the Poems attributed to Thomas Rowley, in which the arguments of the Dean of Exeter and Mr. Bryant are examined, by Thomas Warton,