Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Robert Cecil, earl of Salisbury; Thomas Osborne, earl of Danby and duke of Leeds. By T. P. CourtnayLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1838 - Statesmen |
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... doubt not that it will at once take its place in the first rank of its contemporaries . ... The work opens with a political disquisition , which is a well written production , and bears in every sentence the impress of Mr. Bulwer's mind ...
... doubt not that it will at once take its place in the first rank of its contemporaries . ... The work opens with a political disquisition , which is a well written production , and bears in every sentence the impress of Mr. Bulwer's mind ...
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... Doubts and Fears ; acts in Yorkshire in the Prince's Cause · - 327 Takes his Seat in the Convention Parliament Views in favour of the Princess of Orange William and Mary King and Queen ; Danby Lord Presi- dent and Marquis of Carmarthen ...
... Doubts and Fears ; acts in Yorkshire in the Prince's Cause · - 327 Takes his Seat in the Convention Parliament Views in favour of the Princess of Orange William and Mary King and Queen ; Danby Lord Presi- dent and Marquis of Carmarthen ...
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... doubt whether the popular judgment has been strictly accu- rate in its comparative estimate , either of the princes or of their ministers . Robert Cecil was born on the 1st of June , 1563. * While an infant , he was injured by a fall ...
... doubt whether the popular judgment has been strictly accu- rate in its comparative estimate , either of the princes or of their ministers . Robert Cecil was born on the 1st of June , 1563. * While an infant , he was injured by a fall ...
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... doubts answered . " " Ostend , 29th Feb. " Mr. Dale has lent me some of his books of treaties , which help to spend my time not altogether idly . I * Drs . Dale and Rogers . have written to the earl of Oxford * , which B 3 ROBERT CECIL . 5.
... doubts answered . " " Ostend , 29th Feb. " Mr. Dale has lent me some of his books of treaties , which help to spend my time not altogether idly . I * Drs . Dale and Rogers . have written to the earl of Oxford * , which B 3 ROBERT CECIL . 5.
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... doubt of his living in affectionate intimacy with his wife . But this union endured but for three years : she died in 1590 , leaving one son and one daughter . Although it would appear that Cecil was at this time silent in the house of ...
... doubt of his living in affectionate intimacy with his wife . But this union endured but for three years : she died in 1590 , leaving one son and one daughter . Although it would appear that Cecil was at this time silent in the house of ...
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Page 327 - And whereas it hath been found by experience, that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom, to be governed by a Popish prince...
Page 327 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 231 - I, AB, do declare, that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king : and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 217 - His Father's foes he doth reward Preserving those that cut off 's Head : Old Cavaliers the Crown's best Guard, He lets them starve for want of Bread. Never was any King endow'd With so much Grace and Gratitude.
Page 205 - Majesty that penal statutes, in matters ecclesiastical, cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament.
Page 321 - ... men together. And if such a strength could be landed as were able to defend itself and them till they could be got together into some order, we make no question but that strength would quickly be increased to a number double to the army here, although their army should all remain firm to them...
Page 327 - That king James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the Constitution of the Kingdom, by breaking the original Contract between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits, and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental Laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the Kingdom, has abdicated the Government, and that the Throne is thereby become vacant.
Page 322 - Highness that your compliment upon the birth of the child (which not one in a thousand here believes to be the queen's) hath done you some injury, the false imposing of that upon the princess and the nation being not only an infinite exasperation of people's minds here, but being certainly one of the chief causes upon which the declaration of your entering the kingdom in a hostile manner must be founded on your part, although many other reasons are to be given on ours.
Page 358 - Ireland, and that neither the late King James, nor the pretended Prince of Wales, nor any other Person hath any Right whatsoever to the same...