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Page 22
... or to meddle in an affair that must be examined and adjudged by the laws of
Scotland : and so it was resolved , that the marquis of Argyle should be sent by
sea into Scotland , to be tried before the parliament there , when the
commissioner ...
... or to meddle in an affair that must be examined and adjudged by the laws of
Scotland : and so it was resolved , that the marquis of Argyle should be sent by
sea into Scotland , to be tried before the parliament there , when the
commissioner ...
Page 24
For his lordship informs us , “ that his majesty sent to the archbishop of
Canterbury , that he should , in his majesty's name , command all the bishops '
bench to concur in thanking him for removing the chancellor [ Clarendon ] ; that
he publickly ...
For his lordship informs us , “ that his majesty sent to the archbishop of
Canterbury , that he should , in his majesty's name , command all the bishops '
bench to concur in thanking him for removing the chancellor [ Clarendon ] ; that
he publickly ...
Page 26
But to remove all imaginations , we shall insert a memorandum , or certificate ,
sent by Mr . John Sewell , a register at Windsor Castle : ' Anno 1696 , September
twenty - first , the same vault in which king Charles the First was buried , was ...
But to remove all imaginations , we shall insert a memorandum , or certificate ,
sent by Mr . John Sewell , a register at Windsor Castle : ' Anno 1696 , September
twenty - first , the same vault in which king Charles the First was buried , was ...
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I am most in amaze at the mistaken informations that were sent me by my friends ,
full of expectations of favours , and employments . Who can think that they , who
imprison them , would employ me ; or suffer me to live , when they are put to ...
I am most in amaze at the mistaken informations that were sent me by my friends ,
full of expectations of favours , and employments . Who can think that they , who
imprison them , would employ me ; or suffer me to live , when they are put to ...
Page 46
... the Bishop of Salisbury's intellectuals , some sagacious courtier found out a
flaw in this grant ; whereupon the bishop was sent for up to London , and obliged
to refund the utinost penny , which , in so many years , amounted to a
considerable ...
... the Bishop of Salisbury's intellectuals , some sagacious courtier found out a
flaw in this grant ; whereupon the bishop was sent for up to London , and obliged
to refund the utinost penny , which , in so many years , amounted to a
considerable ...
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Page 7 - I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy persons, inquisitive into natural philosophy, and other parts of human learning ; and particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy, or Experimental Philosophy...
Page 158 - ... the Pope or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man or absolved of this declaration or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons or power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 67 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Page 157 - I do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 365 - Though wit and art conspire to move your mind ; But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful sure as impotence in love. In the fat age of pleasure, wealth, and ease, Sprang the rank weed, and thrived with large increase: When love was all an easy monarch's care ; Seldom at council, never in a war...
Page 123 - ... as may enable us to exercise, with a more universal satisfaction, that power of dispensing, which we conceive to be inherent in us.
Page 84 - 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 commissionated by him; and that I will conform to the liturgy of the Church of England, as it is now by law established...
Page 38 - She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. His passion for her, and her strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application...
Page 84 - ... to endeavour any change or alteration of government either in church or state ; and that the same was in itself an unlawful oath, and imposed upon the subjects of this realm against the known laws and liberties of this kingdom.
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| Title | An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of James I. and Charles I. and of the Lives of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II...: From Original Writers and State-papers, Volume 5 An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of James I. and Charles I. and of the Lives of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II...: From Original Writers and State-papers, William Harris |
| Author | William Harris |
| Publisher | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 23 Mar 2007 |
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