Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of Clarendon: The life of Clarendon, 1838Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838 |
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... King's Promise to suspend the Operation of the Act . - Clarendon wishes the King to fulfil his Promise . - Extent to which Clarendon supported the Act of Uniformity.— His Defence of the King examined . His Assent and subsequent ...
... King's Promise to suspend the Operation of the Act . - Clarendon wishes the King to fulfil his Promise . - Extent to which Clarendon supported the Act of Uniformity.— His Defence of the King examined . His Assent and subsequent ...
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... King's affairs.t That Hyde , at this time , exercised great influ- to exclude ence over the King , is to be learnt from the Hyde from evidence of those by whom his influence was depre- office . cated . He paid the natural penalty of ...
... King's affairs.t That Hyde , at this time , exercised great influ- to exclude ence over the King , is to be learnt from the Hyde from evidence of those by whom his influence was depre- office . cated . He paid the natural penalty of ...
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... King's adherents ; and , as Samborne expresses it in a letter to Hyde , say " they cannot be secure if they permit " so much as a kitchen - boy to be about the King , " of his old party . " Hyde was informed by another correspondent ...
... King's adherents ; and , as Samborne expresses it in a letter to Hyde , say " they cannot be secure if they permit " so much as a kitchen - boy to be about the King , " of his old party . " Hyde was informed by another correspondent ...
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... King's " person , or his power , nor to any ministerial officer ; " but of the judicial , the general sense of the coun- " cil and all the grave men , was to present such to the King as they thought agreeable to the place ; " and for ...
... King's " person , or his power , nor to any ministerial officer ; " but of the judicial , the general sense of the coun- " cil and all the grave men , was to present such to the King as they thought agreeable to the place ; " and for ...
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... King than any other colleagues . " mant , " and he declares , that even his own favour was increased by Ormond's acknowledged friend- ship . Ormond deserved the King's regard by his sufferings , his fidelity , his enterprising and chi ...
... King than any other colleagues . " mant , " and he declares , that even his own favour was increased by Ormond's acknowledged friend- ship . Ormond deserved the King's regard by his sufferings , his fidelity , his enterprising and chi ...
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Page 105 - 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 commissioned by him...
Page 56 - I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered ; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great shouts of joy.
Page 545 - ... of a personal courage equal to his best parts ; so that he was an enemy not to be wished wherever he might have been made a friend, and as much to be apprehended, where he was so, as any man could deserve to be ; and therefore his death was no less pleasing to the one party, than it was condoled in the other.
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Page 144 - I wish I may be unhappy in this world and in the world to come, if I fail in the least degree of what I have resolved, which is of making my Lady Castlemaine of my wife's bedchamber. And whosoever I find in any endeavours to hinder this resolution of mine (except it be only to myself), I will be his enemy to the last moment of my life.
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Page 545 - He was, indeed, a very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever knew.