Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Volume 6University Press, 1833 - Great Britain |
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... live easily with her- self , and asked lord Somers if he thought the whigs could do so too ; he told her she could not have pitched upon a pro- perer person ; for though I was looked upon as a tory , I was known to be no zealous party ...
... live easily with her- self , and asked lord Somers if he thought the whigs could do so too ; he told her she could not have pitched upon a pro- perer person ; for though I was looked upon as a tory , I was known to be no zealous party ...
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... lives of above twenty thousand men , are put in the balance against all " their other advantages , pos- terity cannot hesitate in con- demning the folly , as well as the iniquity of those who " wantonly prolonged the war . Somerville's ...
... lives of above twenty thousand men , are put in the balance against all " their other advantages , pos- terity cannot hesitate in con- demning the folly , as well as the iniquity of those who " wantonly prolonged the war . Somerville's ...
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... live well with her ministers , but did not think fit to say any thing of the reasons she had for making those changes in her ministry x . Yet he shewed no resentments for u ( See Lord Bolingbroke's Letters and Correspondence , published ...
... live well with her ministers , but did not think fit to say any thing of the reasons she had for making those changes in her ministry x . Yet he shewed no resentments for u ( See Lord Bolingbroke's Letters and Correspondence , published ...
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... live to finish . Prior had been taken a boy out of a tavern by the earl of Dorset , who accidentally found him ... Lives of the Poets . ) m ( Compare Mesnager's Mi- nutes , p . 191 ; and the History of Prior's Negotiations , p . 348. ) n ...
... live to finish . Prior had been taken a boy out of a tavern by the earl of Dorset , who accidentally found him ... Lives of the Poets . ) m ( Compare Mesnager's Mi- nutes , p . 191 ; and the History of Prior's Negotiations , p . 348. ) n ...
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... lives of those lords spared who had been convicted in parlia- ment for the rebellion ( in 1715 ) . After this he forbore any very active part in public affairs , and lived a good part of his time in the country , hospitably and friendly ...
... lives of those lords spared who had been convicted in parlia- ment for the rebellion ( in 1715 ) . After this he forbore any very active part in public affairs , and lived a good part of his time in the country , hospitably and friendly ...
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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.
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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.
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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.