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... 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 . Oliver 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 . Oliver was now dead ; Richard was ...
Page 273
... called Absalom and Achitophel , written against the faction which , by lord Shaftesbury's incitement , set the duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of publick principles , and ...
... called Absalom and Achitophel , written against the faction which , by lord Shaftesbury's incitement , set the duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of publick principles , and ...
Page 439
... called ; and when he desired , with great tenderness , to hear his last injunctions , told him , I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die . What effect this awful scene had on the earl I know not ; he likewise died ...
... called ; and when he desired , with great tenderness , to hear his last injunctions , told him , I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die . What effect this awful scene had on the earl I know not ; he likewise died ...
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