The Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners that Have Been Executed the Last 300 Years |
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... Honours he has most bountifully confer'd upon me ; yet I am more bound to his Grace , I do af- fure you , for confining me in this Place , where I have had convenient Place and Opportunity to put me in mind of my last End . I am most of ...
... Honours he has most bountifully confer'd upon me ; yet I am more bound to his Grace , I do af- fure you , for confining me in this Place , where I have had convenient Place and Opportunity to put me in mind of my last End . I am most of ...
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... Honour of Knighthood , the Treafurefhip of the Exchequer , Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster , twice join'd him Ambaffador with Cardinal Woolfey , viz . once to the Emperor Charles into Flanders , and once to the French King ...
... Honour of Knighthood , the Treafurefhip of the Exchequer , Chancellorship of the Dutchy of Lancaster , twice join'd him Ambaffador with Cardinal Woolfey , viz . once to the Emperor Charles into Flanders , and once to the French King ...
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... Honour here , is to fet a Coat of Arms over a Prifon- Gate . 3. He that is covetous when he is old , is like a Thief that feals when he is going to the Gallows . 4. The greatest Punishment in the World was to have our Wishes . 5. We go ...
... Honour here , is to fet a Coat of Arms over a Prifon- Gate . 3. He that is covetous when he is old , is like a Thief that feals when he is going to the Gallows . 4. The greatest Punishment in the World was to have our Wishes . 5. We go ...
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... Honour of the female Sex . I am her near Kinfwoman , de- fcended from Henry VII . Queen Dowager of France , and anointed Queen of Scots . When she had faid this , and turned her felf a- fide , it was at laft granted , that fuch of her ...
... Honour of the female Sex . I am her near Kinfwoman , de- fcended from Henry VII . Queen Dowager of France , and anointed Queen of Scots . When she had faid this , and turned her felf a- fide , it was at laft granted , that fuch of her ...
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... Honour ; they endeavour to draw a Veil over her youthful Failings , and prefent us only with the bright Side of her Character , when they fum it up ; tho ' there appear feveral Facts , even in thefe Hiftorians , which bear hard upon her ...
... Honour ; they endeavour to draw a Veil over her youthful Failings , and prefent us only with the bright Side of her Character , when they fum it up ; tho ' there appear feveral Facts , even in thefe Hiftorians , which bear hard upon her ...
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Page 139 - This made him more irresolute than the conjuncture of his affairs would admit. If he had been of a rougher and more imperious nature, he would have found more respect and duty...
Page 116 - ... 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.
Page 133 - I desire their liberty and freedom '"' "'" as much as anybody whatsoever, but I must tell you that their liberty and freedom consists in having government, in having those laws by which their lives and their goods may be most their own. It is not their having a share in the government ; that is nothing appertaining to them. A subject and a sovereign are clean different things...
Page 71 - When I am gone no doubt you shall be sought to by many, for the world thinks that I was very rich. But take heed of the pretences of men, and their affections, for they last not but in honest and worthy men ; and no greater misery can befall you in this life than to become a prey, and afterwards to be despised.
Page 114 - And even with them who were able to preserve themselves from his infusions, and discerned those opinions to be fixed in him with which they could not comply, he always left the character of an ingenious and conscientious person.
Page 344 - ... the Pope, or any other authority or person whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God, or man, or absolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other person or persons, or power whatsoever, should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 112 - ... very weighty speaker ; and after he had heard a full debate, and observed how the House was like to be inclined, took up the argument, and shortly, and clearly, and craftily so stated it, that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he was never without the dexterity to divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the determining any thing in the negative, which might prove inconvenient in the future.
Page 135 - 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 116 - ... 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 congratulated on the one party, than it was condoled in the other.
Page 320 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?