Lives of British Statesmen, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 |
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Page 37
... charge of conspiracy ; and was at length , on this obsolete accusa- tion , put to death , at the instance of the Spaniards , whom he had offended by some attacks on their South American settlements , 1621 . aristocracy , more dangerous ...
... charge of conspiracy ; and was at length , on this obsolete accusa- tion , put to death , at the instance of the Spaniards , whom he had offended by some attacks on their South American settlements , 1621 . aristocracy , more dangerous ...
Page 73
... charged with that responsibility . The Commons alleged that he had impoverished the crown by the vast gifts in money and land , which he had received for himself and his kindred ; that he had accumulated into his own hands a ...
... charged with that responsibility . The Commons alleged that he had impoverished the crown by the vast gifts in money and land , which he had received for himself and his kindred ; that he had accumulated into his own hands a ...
Page 74
... charges began to be advanced in the House of Commons against the duke , Charles , laying aside his former conciliatory language , re- solved to accelerate their grants by peremptory de- mands , and to repress their accusations by ...
... charges began to be advanced in the House of Commons against the duke , Charles , laying aside his former conciliatory language , re- solved to accelerate their grants by peremptory de- mands , and to repress their accusations by ...
Page 75
... charges against the duke as attacks on his own honour . He expressed his displeasure at the scantiness of the supplies , and still more at the condition with which they were accompanied , and fixed a precise day , by which he commanded ...
... charges against the duke as attacks on his own honour . He expressed his displeasure at the scantiness of the supplies , and still more at the condition with which they were accompanied , and fixed a precise day , by which he commanded ...
Page 76
... charges which they had exhibited against him . ‡ Yet the prosecution was hardly commenced , when the alarm of the favourite and the violent resolves of the king returned . Two of the most active managers of the impeachment were sent to ...
... charges which they had exhibited against him . ‡ Yet the prosecution was hardly commenced , when the alarm of the favourite and the violent resolves of the king returned . Two of the most active managers of the impeachment were sent to ...
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Page 406 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious ; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp ; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Page 415 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 268 - I have nigh done! One stroke will make my wife a widow, my dear children fatherless, deprive my poor servants of their indulgent master, and separate me from my affectionate brother and all my friends! But let God be to you and them all in all!
Page 244 - That, having tried the affections of his people, he was loose and absolved from all rules of government, and...
Page 406 - And therefore his death was no less congratulated on the one party, than it was condoled in the other. In a word, what was said of Cinna might well be applied to him ; " he had " a head to contrive, and a tongue to persuade, " and a hand to execute, any mischief.
Page 353 - ... of will, and humour, and folly, and knavery, and ambition, and malice, which make ? men cling inseparably together, till they have satisfaction in all their pretences, or till they are absolutely broken and subdued, which may always be more easily done than the other.
Page 263 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
Page 234 - Star-Chamber censuring the breach and disobedience to those proclamations by very great fines and imprisonment ; so that any disrespect to any acts of state, or to the persons of statesmen, was in no time more penal, and those foundations of right by which men valued their security, to the apprehension and understanding of wise men, never more in danger to be destroyed.
Page 415 - ... those, and extirpate their families, who are friends to the old one. It was confidently reported, that in the council of officers it was more than once proposed "that there might be a general massacre of all the royal party, as the only expedient to secure the government...
Page 414 - He attempted those things which no good man durst have ventured on ; and achieved those in which none but a valiant and great man could have succeeded.