The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon: In which is Included a Continuation of His History of the Grand Rebellion, Volume 1

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Clarendon Press, 1827
 

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Pagina 350 - ... they who were stricter and more severe in their comportment, became the wives of the seditious preachers, or of officers of the army. The daughters of noble and illustrious families bestowed themselves upon the divines of the time, or other low and unequal matches. Parents had no 1660. manner of authority over their children, nor children ~ any obedience or submission to their parents ; but " every one did that which was good in his own
Pagina 51 - There was never so great a mind and spirit contained in so little room; so large an understanding, and so unrestrained a fancy, in so very small a body; so that the Lord Falkland used to say merrily, that he thought it was a great ingredient into his friendship for Mr. Godolphin, that he was pleased to be found in his company, where he was the properer man...
Pagina 54 - ... flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented with ; that it preserved and won his life from those who were most resolved to take it, and in an occasion, in which he ought to have...
Pagina 34 - Mr. Selden was a person whom no character can flatter, or transmit in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue ; he was of so stupendous...
Pagina 151 - King would yield and consent to what they desire ; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him ; and choose rather to lose my Life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend.
Pagina 43 - ... no man sooner or more disappointed this general and customary prejudice : that little person and small stature was quickly found to contain a great heart, a courage so keen, and a nature so fearless, that no composition of the strongest limbs, and most harmonious and proportioned presence and strength, ever more disposed any man to the greatest enterprise...
Pagina 35 - Charles Cotton was a gentleman born to a competent fortune, and so qualified in his person and . education, that for many years he continued the greatest ornament of the town, in the esteem of those who had been best bred.
Pagina 35 - He had all those qualities which in youth raise men to the reputation of being fine gentlemen ; such a pleasantness and gayety of humour, such a sweetness and gentleness of nature, and such a civility and delightfulness in conversation, that no man in the court, or out of it, appeared a more accomplished person...
Pagina 4 - Elizabeth he served as a burgess for some neighbour boroughs in many parliaments ; but from the death of Queen Elizabeth he never was in London, though he lived above thirty years after ; and his wife, who was married to him above forty years, never was in London in her life, the wisdom and frugality of that time being such that few gentlemen made journeys to London, or any other expensive journeys, but upon important business, and their wives never ; by which providence they enjoyed and improved...
Pagina 89 - ... possible, so their interest could never ' have been the same. In the end, his whole carriage was so ' tempestuous, and his behaviour so insolent, that the Chairman ' found himself obliged to reprehend him : and to tell him, ' That if he' Mr. Cromwell * proceeded in the same manner, * he

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