The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688, Volume 5Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848 - Great Britain |
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... Army . - The King seized by Joyce . - The Army march against the Parliament . - The Army subdue the Parlia- ment . The King flies to the Isle of Wight . - Second Civil War . -Invasion from Scotland . - The Treaty of Newport . - The ...
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... army ; and because subsidies would be levied too slowly for so urgent an occasion , money was borrowed from the citizens upon the security of particular members . Two subsidies , a very small sum , were at first voted ; and as the ...
... army ; and because subsidies would be levied too slowly for so urgent an occasion , money was borrowed from the citizens upon the security of particular members . Two subsidies , a very small sum , were at first voted ; and as the ...
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... army ; nor had he ever been reduced to the illegal expedients practised in England , for the supply of public necessities . No imputation of rapacity could justly lie against his administration . Some instances of imperious expressions ...
... army ; nor had he ever been reduced to the illegal expedients practised in England , for the supply of public necessities . No imputation of rapacity could justly lie against his administration . Some instances of imperious expressions ...
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... army , whom they observed to be displeased at some marks of preference given by the Commons to the Scots . For this purpose , they entered into an association , took an oath of secrecy , and kept a close correspondence with some of the ...
... army , whom they observed to be displeased at some marks of preference given by the Commons to the Scots . For this purpose , they entered into an association , took an oath of secrecy , and kept a close correspondence with some of the ...
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... army against them served with many as a confirmation of this jealousy . It was natural for the king to seek some resource , while all the world seemed to desert him , or combine against him ; and this probably was the utmost of that ...
... army against them served with many as a confirmation of this jealousy . It was natural for the king to seek some resource , while all the world seemed to desert him , or combine against him ; and this probably was the utmost of that ...
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Page 144 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 242 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand ; To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron ; To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Page 46 - 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.
Page 44 - Sir, my consent shall more acquit you herein to God than all the world can do besides. To a willing man there is no injury done...
Page 117 - I DO promise, in the presence of Almighty God, " and as I hope for his blessing and protection, that I " will, to the utmost of my power, defend and maintain "" the true reformed protestant religion, established in the " church of England, and, by the grace of God, in the
Page 390 - ... with one word to his posterity ; to die with peace at home, and triumph abroad ; to be buried among kings, and with more than regal solemnity ; and to leave a name behind him, not to be extinguished but with the whole world ; which, as it...
Page 86 - Pym, and Strode. The articles were, That they had traitorously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental laws and government of the kingdom, to deprive the king of his regal power, and to...
Page 333 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 231 - They proceeded so far as to name eleven members, whom, in general terms, they charged with high treason, as enemies to the army and evil counsellors to the parliament.
Page 333 - 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." Sir Harry Vane exclaiming against this proceeding, he cried with a loud voice, " O Sir Harry Vane! Sir Harry Vane! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane !" Taking hold of Martin by the cloak, " Thou art a whoremaster,