Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Volume 6University Press, 1833 - Great Britain |
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... late minis- ters , from whom they had re- ceived many obligations : there- fore hoped I would not have any resentments upon that ac- count . I told him , I thought if the queen had none , upon so unusual a treatment from one sovereign ...
... late minis- ters , from whom they had re- ceived many obligations : there- fore hoped I would not have any resentments upon that ac- count . I told him , I thought if the queen had none , upon so unusual a treatment from one sovereign ...
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... late ministry exercised over her . 555 of credit . While the poll was taken in London , a new com- mission for the lieutenancy of the city was sent in ; by which a great change was made ; tories were put in , and whigs were left out ...
... late ministry exercised over her . 555 of credit . While the poll was taken in London , a new com- mission for the lieutenancy of the city was sent in ; by which a great change was made ; tories were put in , and whigs were left out ...
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... late practices against the church and state . Bromley was chosen speaker without any opposition : there were few whigs returned , against whom petitions were not offered ; there were in all about an hundred ; and by the first steps the ...
... late practices against the church and state . Bromley was chosen speaker without any opposition : there were few whigs returned , against whom petitions were not offered ; there were in all about an hundred ; and by the first steps the ...
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... late a The good bishop's general and indefinite sentiments here are liable to much exception . He did not try them by his whig principles . See what he himself says in this book , page 624. O. T ( The author of the Life and ministry had ...
... late a The good bishop's general and indefinite sentiments here are liable to much exception . He did not try them by his whig principles . See what he himself says in this book , page 624. O. T ( The author of the Life and ministry had ...
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... late administration all that was possible ; so it was pretended , that in all that affair there was a design against the church , and to increase the numbers and strength of the dis- senters . It has indeed passed for an established ...
... late administration all that was possible ; so it was pretended , that in all that affair there was a design against the church , and to increase the numbers and strength of the dis- senters . It has indeed passed for an established ...
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Page 243 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Page 286 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 242 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good ; seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 242 - Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good ; Seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open unto their cry.
Page 354 - truth ; or the true state of the primitive church, by an " humble moderator,
Page 312 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 15 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Page 23 - An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions. By PG TAIT, MA, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh ; formerly Fellow of St Peter's College, Cambridge. Second...
Page 240 - I understand somewhat more than the receiving some doctrines, though ever so true, or the professing them, and engaging to support them, not without zeal and eagerness. What signify the best doctrines, if men do not live suitably to them ; if they have not a due influence upon their thoughts, their principles, and their lives ? Men of bad lives, with sound opinions, are selfcondemned, and lie under a highly aggravated guilt...
Page 94 - It was said that the queen could not send a message to any one House to adjourn, when the like message was not sent to both Houses. The pleasure of the prince in convening, dissolving, proroguing or ordering the adjournment of Parliaments was always directed to both Houses, but never to any one House without the same intimation was made at the same time to the other.