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" was exceedingly disposed to please the King, and to do him service." "It could never be hoped," he observes elsewhere, "that more sober or dispassionate men would ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them. "
The Life of the First Earl of Shaftesbury: From Original Documents in the ... - Page 107
by Benjamin Martyn, Andrew Kippis, George Wingrove Cooke - 1836
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The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England: Being a ..., Volume 8

Great Britain. Parliament - Constitutional history - 1751 - 544 pages
...Mifery in View, which fhortly after fell out. It could never be hoped that more fober and difpafiionate Men would ever meet together in that Place, or fewer who brought ill Purpofes with them ; nor could any Man imagine what Offence they had given, which put the King upon...
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Peerage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical ..., Volume 2

Arthur Collins - Nobility - 1756 - 606 pages
...though, as the Earl of Clarendon writes, h it could never be hoped, that more fober and difpaffunate men would ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purpofes with them ; nor could any imagine what offence they had given, which put the King upon that...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 54

1831 - 652 pages
...and to ' do him service.' — ' It could never be hoped,' he observes elsewhere, ' that more sober or dispassionate men would ever meet ' together in that...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with « them.' In this Parliament Hampden took his seat as member for Buckinghamshire ; and thenceforward, till the...
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to ..., Volume 2

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1807 - 784 pages
...which shortly after fell out, it could ncicr be hoped that' more sober and dispassionate men woul:! ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them ; nor could any mnn imagine what offence they had given, which put the kin;; upon that resolution....
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Volume 1, Issue 1

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1807 - 506 pages
...mifery in view, which fhortly after fell out. It could never be hoped, that more fober and difpaffionate men would ever meet together in that place, or fewer who brought ill purpofes with them ; nor could any man imagine what offence they had given, which put the King upon...
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Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...supplies he demanded, dissolved on the 5th of next month ; though, as the Earl of Clarendon writes, v " it could never be hoped, that more sober and dispassionate...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them; nor could any imagine what offence they had given, which put the King upon that retolution." After...
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Christian Remembrancer: Or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 1

Christianity - 1819 - 818 pages
...The short parliament, which was assembled in the spring of 1640, and of which Lord Clarendon says, " It could never be hoped, that more sober and dispassionate...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them," was, notwithstanding, dissolved before it had come to any vote, for fear it should pass a resolution...
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Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of His Sons ..., Volume 1

Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1821 - 518 pages
...than this dissolution caused ; and men had much of the misery in view which shortly after fell out. That it could never be hoped that more sober and dispassionate...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them ; nor could any man imagine what offence they had given, which put the King upon that resolution. That...
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Oliver Cromwell and His Times

Thomas Cromwell - Great Britain - 1822 - 616 pages
...dissolution caused ;' that ' men had much of the misery in view which shortly after fell out ;' and that ' it could never be hoped, that more sober and...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them :' neither ' could any man imagine what offence they had given, which put the king upon that resolution.'...
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Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2

English fiction - 1824 - 488 pages
...May, the Parliament was dissolved. Lord Clarendon says, " it could never be hoped that more sober or dispassionate men would ever meet together in that...place, or fewer who brought ill purposes with them ; nor could any man imagine what offence they had given, which put the King upon that resolution ^"....
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