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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... used to be , and there- fore thought fit to make what Hafte He could to his Houfe , and was no fooner come thither into a lower Room , than having made Water , and the Pain in his And Death . Arm feizing upon him , He fell down dead ...
... used to be , and there- fore thought fit to make what Hafte He could to his Houfe , and was no fooner come thither into a lower Room , than having made Water , and the Pain in his And Death . Arm feizing upon him , He fell down dead ...
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... used to fay , " not only loft the best Father , but the best Friend " and the best Companion He ever had or could have ; " and He was never fo well pleased , as when He had fit Oc- cafions given him to mention his Father , whom He did ...
... used to fay , " not only loft the best Father , but the best Friend " and the best Companion He ever had or could have ; " and He was never fo well pleased , as when He had fit Oc- cafions given him to mention his Father , whom He did ...
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... used to spend as much Time as He could get , at his Country House at Croydon , and then his Mind being unbent from Business , He delighted in the Converfation of his Neighbours , and treated them with great Urbanity . plaint to the ...
... used to spend as much Time as He could get , at his Country House at Croydon , and then his Mind being unbent from Business , He delighted in the Converfation of his Neighbours , and treated them with great Urbanity . plaint to the ...
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... used with more Countenance Mr.Hydere- by all the Judges in Weftminster - Hall , and the eminent ces Encou Practifers , than was ufually given to Men of his Years ; bis Profeffica so that He grew every Day in Practice , of which He had ...
... used with more Countenance Mr.Hydere- by all the Judges in Weftminster - Hall , and the eminent ces Encou Practifers , than was ufually given to Men of his Years ; bis Profeffica so that He grew every Day in Practice , of which He had ...
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... used to meet together at that Hour , and in fuch Places as was mutually agreed between them ; where They enjoyed themselves with great Delight , and publick Reputation , for the In- ( 15 ) nocence , and Sharpness , and Learning of their ...
... used to meet together at that Hour , and in fuch Places as was mutually agreed between them ; where They enjoyed themselves with great Delight , and publick Reputation , for the In- ( 15 ) nocence , and Sharpness , and Learning of their ...
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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...