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Page 89
... called the Cabinet Council ; and next year gratified his malevolence to the clergy , by a Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Cases , and The Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . Óliver was now dead ; Richard was ...
... called the Cabinet Council ; and next year gratified his malevolence to the clergy , by a Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Cases , and The Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . Óliver was now dead ; Richard was ...
Page 264
... called Dryden's Satire on his Muse ; ascribed , though , as Pope says , falsely , to Somers , who was afterwards Chancellor . The poem , whose soever it was , has much virulence , and some spriteliness . The writer tells all the ill ...
... called Dryden's Satire on his Muse ; ascribed , though , as Pope says , falsely , to Somers , who was afterwards Chancellor . The poem , whose soever it was , has much virulence , and some spriteliness . The writer tells all the ill ...
Page 286
... called Will's Coffee - house , the appeal upon any literary dispute was made to him ; and the other related , that his armed chair , which in the winter had a settled and prescriptive place by the fire , was in the summer placed in the ...
... called Will's Coffee - house , the appeal upon any literary dispute was made to him ; and the other related , that his armed chair , which in the winter had a settled and prescriptive place by the fire , was in the summer placed in the ...
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