The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statemen, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time, Volume 3J. Mawman, 1816 - Great Britain |
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... mind , that the old and usual way was best ; that in kingdoms the harmony was sweetest , where the prince and the people tuned well together . It ran in my mind , that this new device for money could not long hold out ; that then we ...
... mind , that the old and usual way was best ; that in kingdoms the harmony was sweetest , where the prince and the people tuned well together . It ran in my mind , that this new device for money could not long hold out ; that then we ...
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... minds of his readers the most favourable impression of this states- man , avoids suspicion in this instance by a partial acknowledge- ment of the truth . " His fidelity to the King , " he remarks , was unshaken : but as he now employed ...
... minds of his readers the most favourable impression of this states- man , avoids suspicion in this instance by a partial acknowledge- ment of the truth . " His fidelity to the King , " he remarks , was unshaken : but as he now employed ...
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... mind of Wentworth . He returned however to Ireland , which he continued to govern upon the same system as before . In 1631 , he had lost his second wife , who in the course of the preceding six years had brought him two sons and three ...
... mind of Wentworth . He returned however to Ireland , which he continued to govern upon the same system as before . In 1631 , he had lost his second wife , who in the course of the preceding six years had brought him two sons and three ...
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... mind in per- petual anguish . To these must be added , as not the least source of his disquietudes , the violence of his own passions , which involved him in a discreditable quarrel with the Irish Chancellor Loftus . In 1637 however he ...
... mind in per- petual anguish . To these must be added , as not the least source of his disquietudes , the violence of his own passions , which involved him in a discreditable quarrel with the Irish Chancellor Loftus . In 1637 however he ...
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... mind , I submit clearly and freely to your judgements ; and whether that righteous doom shall be to life or death , I shall repose myself , full of gratitude and confidence , in the arms of the great Author of my existence . " * This ...
... mind , I submit clearly and freely to your judgements ; and whether that righteous doom shall be to life or death , I shall repose myself , full of gratitude and confidence , in the arms of the great Author of my existence . " * This ...
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afterward ancient ANTISTROPHE appeared appointed Archbishop army attend authority bill of attainder Bishop called cause Chancellor charge Charles Charles II Church Church of England Clarendon College Colonel command Commons Council court Cromwell daughter death declared desired discourse divine Earl Earl of Strafford endeavoured enemy England English father favour fear friends Hampden hand hath heart high-treason honour House House of Lords Ireland Irish John judgement King King's kingdom Laud learning letter liberty likewise lived London Long Parliament Majesty ment Milton ministers Monk nation never observed occasion Oliver Cromwell Owthorpe Oxford parlia party person petition Petition of Right Prince principles Privy procured Protector published reason received religion resolved respect Restoration Richard Cromwell royal says Scotland Scots Selden sent Sir Harry Vane Sovereign spirit Strafford thing thought tion Usher Wentworth whole William Laud Williams
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Page 486 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 75 - I am persuaded, his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do, good or hurt, than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time : for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Page 490 - And the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above man's to promise; but that none hath by more studious ways endeavoured, and with more unwearied spirit that none shall, that I dare almost aver of myself, as far as life and free leisure will extend; and that the land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...
Page 436 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Page 249 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean ; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar; his hat was without a hathand. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his voice sharp and untuneable ; and Ms eloquence full of fervour, for the subject matter...
Page 257 - are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
Page 487 - ... form, whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed; which in them that know art, and use...
Page 478 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 494 - Next (for hear me out now, readers), that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 486 - Vanity, but to be an Interpreter and Relater of the best and sagest things, among mine own Citizens throughout this Island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest Wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine...