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... . A new feffion -Rupture with Holland- A new feffion --Victory of the English - Rupture with France— Rupture with Denmark - New feffion- Sea - fight of 5 four four days Victory of the English - Fire of London CONTENTS .
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... France - Character of Lewis XIV . French invafion of the Low Countries - Nego- tiations Triple league - Treaty of Aix - la - Cha- pelle Affairs of Scotland - and of Ireland . Page 395 CHAP . LXV . A parliament - The cabal - Their ...
... France - Character of Lewis XIV . French invafion of the Low Countries - Nego- tiations Triple league - Treaty of Aix - la - Cha- pelle Affairs of Scotland - and of Ireland . Page 395 CHAP . LXV . A parliament - The cabal - Their ...
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... of an eafy escape into France , if preffed by the forces of the enemy . She knew the implacable hatred Rufh . vol . vi . p . 306 . t Rush , vol . vi . p . 621 . 21ft of March . which 1644 . her . CHAP . which the parliament , CHARLES I. 9.
... of an eafy escape into France , if preffed by the forces of the enemy . She knew the implacable hatred Rufh . vol . vi . p . 306 . t Rush , vol . vi . p . 621 . 21ft of March . which 1644 . her . CHAP . which the parliament , CHARLES I. 9.
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... France , where he joined the queen and the prince of Wales . IN Ireland , during thefe tranfactions , the autho- rity of the nuncio prevailed without control among all the catholics ; and that prelate , by his indifcre- tion and ...
... France , where he joined the queen and the prince of Wales . IN Ireland , during thefe tranfactions , the autho- rity of the nuncio prevailed without control among all the catholics ; and that prelate , by his indifcre- tion and ...
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... France , and , contrary to his natural difpofition , had lived for fome time unactive at Paris . He there became acquainted with the famous cardinal de Retz ; and that penetrating judge celebrates him in his me- moirs as one of thofe ...
... France , and , contrary to his natural difpofition , had lived for fome time unactive at Paris . He there became acquainted with the famous cardinal de Retz ; and that penetrating judge celebrates him in his me- moirs as one of thofe ...
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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.