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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... Mind to the Practice of the Law , but had long had an Inclination to travel be- yond the Seas , which in that strict Time of Queen Eli- zabeth , was not ufual , except to Merchants , and fuch Gentlemen who refolved to be Soldiers ; and ...
... Mind to the Practice of the Law , but had long had an Inclination to travel be- yond the Seas , which in that strict Time of Queen Eli- zabeth , was not ufual , except to Merchants , and fuch Gentlemen who refolved to be Soldiers ; and ...
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... Mind , with his Father's Confent and Ap- Mr. Hyde's probation , He married a young Lady very fair and beau- Marriage . tiful , the Daughter of Sir George Ayliffe , a Gentleman of a good Name and Fortune in the County of Wilts , where ...
... Mind , with his Father's Confent and Ap- Mr. Hyde's probation , He married a young Lady very fair and beau- Marriage . tiful , the Daughter of Sir George Ayliffe , a Gentleman of a good Name and Fortune in the County of Wilts , where ...
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... Mind as if it had made no Impreffion on him ; then went to the Cathedral to Sermon , and fpent the whole Day in as chearful Conversation with his Friends ( faving only the frequent Interruptions his Infirmity gave him once in two or ...
... Mind as if it had made no Impreffion on him ; then went to the Cathedral to Sermon , and fpent the whole Day in as chearful Conversation with his Friends ( faving only the frequent Interruptions his Infirmity gave him once in two or ...
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... Mind being unbent from Business , He delighted in the Converfation of his Neighbours , and treated them with great Urbanity . plaint to the Portland . THERE was a Merchant of the greatest Reputation , ( Daniel Harvey ) who having a ...
... Mind being unbent from Business , He delighted in the Converfation of his Neighbours , and treated them with great Urbanity . plaint to the Portland . THERE was a Merchant of the greatest Reputation , ( Daniel Harvey ) who having a ...
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... Mind , and upon the Matter wholly betook himfelf to Bufinefs , yet He made not himself a Slave to it ; but kept both his Friends at Court , and about the Town , by his frequent Appli- His Method cation and conftant Conversation ; in ...
... Mind , and upon the Matter wholly betook himfelf to Bufinefs , yet He made not himself a Slave to it ; but kept both his Friends at Court , and about the Town , by his frequent Appli- His Method cation and conftant Conversation ; in ...
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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...