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Page viii
My grateful thanks in that respect are particularly due to colonel H. Eustace , to Mr
. Leckie , well known in the political and literary world , and to Mr. Rowland
Winburn of Chancery Lane , to whom I never vainly applied either for books or for
...
My grateful thanks in that respect are particularly due to colonel H. Eustace , to Mr
. Leckie , well known in the political and literary world , and to Mr. Rowland
Winburn of Chancery Lane , to whom I never vainly applied either for books or for
...
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The impeachment never came to a full determination , and did not prevent
Buckingham from being elected about this time , by court interest , chancellor of
Cambridge , in the room of the earl of Suffolk . The commons considered it as an
affront ...
The impeachment never came to a full determination , and did not prevent
Buckingham from being elected about this time , by court interest , chancellor of
Cambridge , in the room of the earl of Suffolk . The commons considered it as an
affront ...
Page 27
The inquiries concerning tonnage and poundage went hand in hand with those
metaphysico - theological controversies , to which the greatest philosophers ,
even in the tranquillity of retreat , had never hitherto been able to find a
satisfactory ...
The inquiries concerning tonnage and poundage went hand in hand with those
metaphysico - theological controversies , to which the greatest philosophers ,
even in the tranquillity of retreat , had never hitherto been able to find a
satisfactory ...
Page 31
In return for Charles's indulgence towards the church , Laud and his adherents
never failed to magnify on every occasion the regal authority , and to rebuff with
disdain all puritanical ideas of a free constitution . But while those prelates were
so ...
In return for Charles's indulgence towards the church , Laud and his adherents
never failed to magnify on every occasion the regal authority , and to rebuff with
disdain all puritanical ideas of a free constitution . But while those prelates were
so ...
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... unfortunately , the prudence an fortitude absolutely necessary to face and
remove such a dangerous crisis can never be expected from the same prince
and ministers whose imprudence and weakness have produced it . The king ,
deprived ...
... unfortunately , the prudence an fortitude absolutely necessary to face and
remove such a dangerous crisis can never be expected from the same prince
and ministers whose imprudence and weakness have produced it . The king ,
deprived ...
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Page 480 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 534 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 480 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 20 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Page 510 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel and the protestant reformed religion established by law...
Page 473 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Page 179 - ... in that very hour when he was thus wickedly murdered in the sight of the sun, he had as great a share in the hearts and affections of his subjects in general, was as much beloved, esteemed, and longed for by the people in general of the three nations, as any of his predecessors had ever been.
Page 178 - 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 8 - I pray you to consider what these new counsels are, and may be. I fear to declare those that I conceive. In all Christian kingdoms you know that parliaments were in use anciently, until the monarchs began to know their own strength ; and, seeing the turbulent spirit of their parliaments, at length they, by little and little, began to stand upon their prerogatives, and at last overthrew the parliaments throughout Christendom, except here only -with us.
Page 63 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.
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| Title | A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables ... Volume 3 of A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables, Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville Volume 3 of A chronological abridgment of the history of Great Britain, from the first invasion of the Romans to the year 1763, Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville |
| Authors | Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine François Bertrand de Moleville |
| Publisher | T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2008 |
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