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 5F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814 |
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... shews , in some part , that education and discipline were more severe then ( as indeed they were ) than after , when scholars were given more to liberty and frivolous studies . Athenæ Oxon . vol . II . c . 561 . openness and frankness ...
... shews , in some part , that education and discipline were more severe then ( as indeed they were ) than after , when scholars were given more to liberty and frivolous studies . Athenæ Oxon . vol . II . c . 561 . openness and frankness ...
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... shews me the time is come wherein I should resign it . And when I cannot live in my own country , but by such means as are worse than dying in it : I think he shews me , I ought to keep myself out of it . Let them please themselves with ...
... shews me the time is come wherein I should resign it . And when I cannot live in my own country , but by such means as are worse than dying in it : I think he shews me , I ought to keep myself out of it . Let them please themselves with ...
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... to do it out of custom . The hypocrisy of the former times inclined men to think they could not shew too great an aversion to it ; and that helped to adulteries being open , abandoned , and ac- encourage this 36 . THE LIFE OF.
... to do it out of custom . The hypocrisy of the former times inclined men to think they could not shew too great an aversion to it ; and that helped to adulteries being open , abandoned , and ac- encourage this 36 . THE LIFE OF.
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... shew this letter to my lord lieutenant ; and if you have both a mind to oblige me , carry yourselves like friends in this matter . 66 CHARLES R. " This letter had its effect on the lord chancellor : for it appears , by his own account ...
... shew this letter to my lord lieutenant ; and if you have both a mind to oblige me , carry yourselves like friends in this matter . 66 CHARLES R. " This letter had its effect on the lord chancellor : for it appears , by his own account ...
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... shew that gallantry does not make a prince odious . The amours of a good king are always deemed a pardonable weakness , if they are not attended with injustice and violence . Make love like Lewis XIV . or Charles II . king of England ...
... shew that gallantry does not make a prince odious . The amours of a good king are always deemed a pardonable weakness , if they are not attended with injustice and violence . Make love like Lewis XIV . or Charles II . king of England ...
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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.
Page 239 - I, AB, do declare and believe 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.