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... still worse event from the enfuing fummer . The preparations of the parliament were great , and much exceeded the flen- der refources of which he was poffeffed . In the east- ern affociation , they levied fourteen thousand men , under ...
... still worse event from the enfuing fummer . The preparations of the parliament were great , and much exceeded the flen- der refources of which he was poffeffed . In the east- ern affociation , they levied fourteen thousand men , under ...
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... still continued , by his counte- nance and protection , to infufe fpirit into the diftreffed royalifts . Among other perfons of diftinction , who united themselves to him , was lord Napier of Mer- chifton , fon of the famous inventor of ...
... still continued , by his counte- nance and protection , to infufe fpirit into the diftreffed royalifts . Among other perfons of diftinction , who united themselves to him , was lord Napier of Mer- chifton , fon of the famous inventor of ...
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... still able , during fuch a feafon , to per- form fo long a journey , in company with so many young people . THE king , being delivered over by the Scots to King deli the English commiffioners , was conducted , under a guard , to ...
... still able , during fuch a feafon , to per- form fo long a journey , in company with so many young people . THE king , being delivered over by the Scots to King deli the English commiffioners , was conducted , under a guard , to ...
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... still powerful and popular general of the parliament . His death , in this conjuncture , was a public misfortune . Fully fenfible of the ex- ceffes to which affairs had been carried , and of the worse confequences which were ftill to be ...
... still powerful and popular general of the parliament . His death , in this conjuncture , was a public misfortune . Fully fenfible of the ex- ceffes to which affairs had been carried , and of the worse confequences which were ftill to be ...
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... still continued his fcheme of reducing the parliament to fubjection , and depriving them of all means of refiftance . To gratify the army , the parliament invefted Fairfax with the title of general in chief of all the forces in England ...
... still continued his fcheme of reducing the parliament to fubjection , and depriving them of all means of refiftance . To gratify the army , the parliament invefted Fairfax with the title of general in chief of all the forces in England ...
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Page 140 - There is, sir, but one stage more, which though turbulent and troublesome, is yet a very short one. Consider, it will soon carry you a great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.
Page 462 - My lord, I know very well that you are at the bottom of this late attempt upon my father. But I give you warning, if...
Page 72 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye; why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?
Page 142 - THE character of this Prince, as that of most men, if not of all men, was mixed; but his virtues predominated extremely above his vices, or, more properly speaking, his imperfections: For scarce any of his faults rose to that pitch as to merit the appellation of vices. To consider him in the most...
Page 215 - For shame," said he to the parliament, "get you gone: give place to honester men; to those who will more faithfully discharge their trust. You are no longer a parliament. I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you: he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work.
Page 143 - Had the limitations on prerogative been in his time quite fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard, as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution. Unhappily, his fate threw him into a period when the precedents of many former reigns savoured strongly of arbitrary power, and the genius of the people ran violently towards liberty.
Page 142 - Juxon told them, that the king, having frequently charged him to inculcate on his son the forgiveness of his murderers, had taken this opportunity, in the last moment of his life, when his commands, he supposed, would be regarded as sacred and inviolable, to reiterate that desire; and that his mild...
Page 143 - Had he been born an absolute prince, his humanity and good sense had rendered his reign happy and his memory precious : had the limitations on prerogative been, in his time, quite fixed and certain, his integrity had made him regard, as sacred, the boundaries of the constitution.
Page 284 - ... north ? Be feared and courted by all foreign princes, and be adopted a brother to the gods of the earth ? Call together Parliaments with a word of his pen, and scatter them again with the breath of his mouth ? Reduce to...
Page 216 - ... illegal violence, with whatever pretences it may be covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotic government of a single person.