Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Հատոր 41835 |
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... command , and the countess was ordered no longer to remain at court , the princess Anne preferring friendship to a concurrence with the will of a sister , followed her favourite . The coolness , and the final separation , are founded by ...
... command , and the countess was ordered no longer to remain at court , the princess Anne preferring friendship to a concurrence with the will of a sister , followed her favourite . The coolness , and the final separation , are founded by ...
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... command ; but the queen , with her usual vehemence of friendship , forbade the allusion to such an intention : - " We four , " she said , ( alluding to the Marlboroughs , Godolphin , and herself ) " must never part till death mows us ...
... command ; but the queen , with her usual vehemence of friendship , forbade the allusion to such an intention : - " We four , " she said , ( alluding to the Marlboroughs , Godolphin , and herself ) " must never part till death mows us ...
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... command over the weaker . The legislature , of which part was thus influenced , while a portion looked forward to a Jacobite succession , tacked to the supplies the celebrated act of security , by which a separate successor to the crown ...
... command over the weaker . The legislature , of which part was thus influenced , while a portion looked forward to a Jacobite succession , tacked to the supplies the celebrated act of security , by which a separate successor to the crown ...
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... command , after having retained it during three campaigns . It was late in the evening of the 5th of August , 1714 , that Lord Clarendon , the English ambassador at the court of Hanover , having received an express announcing the demise ...
... command , after having retained it during three campaigns . It was late in the evening of the 5th of August , 1714 , that Lord Clarendon , the English ambassador at the court of Hanover , having received an express announcing the demise ...
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... command till the year 1693 , when , having in the interim been progressively promoted to the ranks of vice- admiral of the blue and of the red squadrons , in the month of July , 1693 , on the decease of Sir John Ashby , his lordship was ...
... command till the year 1693 , when , having in the interim been progressively promoted to the ranks of vice- admiral of the blue and of the red squadrons , in the month of July , 1693 , on the decease of Sir John Ashby , his lordship was ...
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Էջ 75 - An Act for the Amendment of the Law, and the better Advancement of Justice...
Էջ 265 - The cause of Congreve was not tenable: whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Էջ 397 - I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Էջ 210 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God...
Էջ 56 - Trevor, and who was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II.
Էջ 275 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
Էջ 398 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Էջ 53 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.
Էջ 254 - The university approved the contents of this letter, and accordingly created Mr. AtterburyD.D. Our author's work was entitled, "The Rights, Powers, and Privileges of an English Convocation, stated and vindicated, in answer to a late book of Dr.
Էջ 423 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.