The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon: Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor's Life from His Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the Same, and of His History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to His Banishment in 1667, Volume 1 |
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... Some Account Robert Hyde of Norbury , and the Cuftom of that County of bis Grand of his Family : of Chester being , to make fmall Provifions for the younger father Sons of the beit Families , was by the Care and Providence of his Mother ...
... Some Account Robert Hyde of Norbury , and the Cuftom of that County of bis Grand of his Family : of Chester being , to make fmall Provifions for the younger father Sons of the beit Families , was by the Care and Providence of his Mother ...
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... Some Acons ftood at Gaze , and irrefolute what Courfe of Life to of his chuf Acquainters take , his chief Acquaintance were Ben . Johnlon , John hilft only a Selden , Charles Cotton , John Vaughan , Sir Kenelm Digby , Student of its ...
... Some Acons ftood at Gaze , and irrefolute what Courfe of Life to of his chuf Acquainters take , his chief Acquaintance were Ben . Johnlon , John hilft only a Selden , Charles Cotton , John Vaughan , Sir Kenelm Digby , Student of its ...
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... Some unhappy Suits in Law , and Waste of his Fortune in thofe Suits , made fome Impreffion upon his Mind ; which being improved by domeftick Afflic- tions , and those Indulgences to himself , which naturally attend those Afflictions ...
... Some unhappy Suits in Law , and Waste of his Fortune in thofe Suits , made fome Impreffion upon his Mind ; which being improved by domeftick Afflic- tions , and those Indulgences to himself , which naturally attend those Afflictions ...
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... some other commendable Pieces , of the Reign of some of our Kings ; He was cherished by many Persons of Ho- nour , and very acceptable in all Places ; yet ( to fhew that Pride and Envy have their Influences upon the narroweft Minds ...
... some other commendable Pieces , of the Reign of some of our Kings ; He was cherished by many Persons of Ho- nour , and very acceptable in all Places ; yet ( to fhew that Pride and Envy have their Influences upon the narroweft Minds ...
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... some sharp Answers and Replies , He used to make in accidental Difcourfes , and which in Truth were made for Mirth and Pleafantnefs Sake ( as He was of the highest Facetiousness ) were reported , and fpread abroad to his Prejudice ; as ...
... some sharp Answers and Replies , He used to make in accidental Difcourfes , and which in Truth were made for Mirth and Pleafantnefs Sake ( as He was of the highest Facetiousness ) were reported , and fpread abroad to his Prejudice ; as ...
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Page 307 - Irish to retire by such a day, under the penalty of death ; and all who should after that time be found in any other part of the kingdom, man, woman, -or child, should be killed by any body who saw or met them.
Page 308 - ... at very valuable rates, and jointures made upon marriages, and all other conveyances and settlements executed, as in a kingdom at peace within itself, and where no doubt could be made of the validity of titles.
Page 452 - I will conform to the liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by law established.
Page 27 - ... nature ; his own marriage with a lady, though of an extraordinary beauty, of as extraordinary a fame ; his changing and rechanging his religion ; and...
Page 31 - ... and governed by a mind and understanding so excellent, that the wit and weight of all he said carried another kind of lustre and admiration in it, and even another kind of acceptation from the persons present, than any ornament of delivery could reasonably...
Page 288 - Fergus : and it might well be a question, whether the generality of the nation was not better contented with it, than to return into the old road of subjection.
Page 38 - ... a price ; that it had power to reconcile him to those whom he had most offended and provoked ; and continued to his age with that rare felicity, that his company was acceptable where his spirit was odious ; and he was, at least, pitied where he was most detested.
Page 24 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
Page 28 - He was a person of a pleasant and facetious wit, and made many poems, (especially in the amorous way,) which for the sharpness of the fancy, and the elegancy of the language in which that fancy was spread, were at least equal, if not superior to any of that time...
Page 24 - Mr. Selden was a person whom no character can flatter, or transmit in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous learning in all kinds and in all languages, (as may appear in his excellent and transcendent writings,) that a man would have thought he had been entirely conversant amongst books, and had never spent an hour but in reading and writing...