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... Court is not the dial plate of the national heart . We have been led to state this , though not perhaps in the direct line of our argument , because the substituting a very exceptionable kind of Court biography for true national history ...
... Court is not the dial plate of the national heart . We have been led to state this , though not perhaps in the direct line of our argument , because the substituting a very exceptionable kind of Court biography for true national history ...
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... Court . It is not the least evil of intolerance , that it often sets the martyr's crown on the brow of the bigot and the traitor . But all the Jesuits ' craft could not sophisticate the filial piety of young Marvell ; though their ...
... Court . It is not the least evil of intolerance , that it often sets the martyr's crown on the brow of the bigot and the traitor . But all the Jesuits ' craft could not sophisticate the filial piety of young Marvell ; though their ...
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... Court of Wards ; the £ 70,000 per month for the disbanding of the army ; the tonnage and poundage ; the £ 100,000 to be raised upon lands in the several counties , ( the apportioning of which gave rise , as might be expected , to much ...
... Court of Wards ; the £ 70,000 per month for the disbanding of the army ; the tonnage and poundage ; the £ 100,000 to be raised upon lands in the several counties , ( the apportioning of which gave rise , as might be expected , to much ...
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... court to break its word if it be so inclined . It would seem that the good people of Hull , were anxious to retain their old ministers , or at least to have the choice of their new ones . Marvell , their honest counsellor , presses upon ...
... court to break its word if it be so inclined . It would seem that the good people of Hull , were anxious to retain their old ministers , or at least to have the choice of their new ones . Marvell , their honest counsellor , presses upon ...
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... court interest . Some unrecorded heart - burnings took place between the associates at the elec- tion , which ended in an open rupture , which did not , however , prevent Marvell from co - operating with the Colonel , when the good of ...
... court interest . Some unrecorded heart - burnings took place between the associates at the elec- tion , which ended in an open rupture , which did not , however , prevent Marvell from co - operating with the Colonel , when the good of ...
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Page 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Page 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
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Page 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
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