State-worthies: Or, The Statesmen and Favourites of England from the Reformation to the Revolution ...J. Robson, 1766 - Favorites, Royal |
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... Queens ) if he can- cannot be Pope of Rome , he will fhew he is as good as King of England , for finding that the king wanted a meet yoak - fellow for his bed , and a lawful heir - male to his crown , and observing Queen Katherine's age ...
... Queens ) if he can- cannot be Pope of Rome , he will fhew he is as good as King of England , for finding that the king wanted a meet yoak - fellow for his bed , and a lawful heir - male to his crown , and observing Queen Katherine's age ...
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... queen Anne Bullein , and left him to shift among the fervants . Queen Anne preffed the king with the poor condition he had brought the fubjects to ; others into what great eftate he had raised himself . First he returns from court to ...
... queen Anne Bullein , and left him to shift among the fervants . Queen Anne preffed the king with the poor condition he had brought the fubjects to ; others into what great eftate he had raised himself . First he returns from court to ...
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... Queen Elizabeth being to employ a famous embaffage into France , made choice of two of the noblest peers of her realm ; equal in rank , equal in virtue : but the one excused it by a de- fect in his hearing , and the other by an igno ...
... Queen Elizabeth being to employ a famous embaffage into France , made choice of two of the noblest peers of her realm ; equal in rank , equal in virtue : but the one excused it by a de- fect in his hearing , and the other by an igno ...
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... queen Catherine ; fo he is at Lambeth , to divorce him from Anna Bullein . He promoted in the convocation all primitive doctrines , and condemned all new- fangled opinions . He was fo charitable , that he interceded with the king for ...
... queen Catherine ; fo he is at Lambeth , to divorce him from Anna Bullein . He promoted in the convocation all primitive doctrines , and condemned all new- fangled opinions . He was fo charitable , that he interceded with the king for ...
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... queen Mary and queen Eliza- beth , therefore he refufed at firft to fign king Edward's Teftament , but duke Dudley's Will : he was willing to continue the protestant reli- gion , therefore he figned it at laft . It was a bi- shop that ...
... queen Mary and queen Eliza- beth , therefore he refufed at firft to fign king Edward's Teftament , but duke Dudley's Will : he was willing to continue the protestant reli- gion , therefore he figned it at laft . It was a bi- shop that ...
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Page 37 - ... a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure as with poets, nor for advantage as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake.
Page 205 - ... self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Counsel is of two sorts ; the one concerning manners, the other concerning business: for the first, the best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Page 43 - Instead of art and luxury in food, Let mirth and freedom make thy table good. If any cares into thy day-time creep, At night, without wine's opium, let them sleep. Let rest, which nature does to darkness wed, And not lust, recommend to thee thy bed. Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well the...
Page 264 - that we are commanded to forgive our enemies ; but you never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
Page 504 - Packington was a gentleman of no mean family, and of form and feature nowise disabled, for he was a brave gentleman, and a very fine courtier, and for the time which he stayed there, which was not lasting, very high in her grace; but he came in, and went out...
Page 385 - Armes, he soon attracted the good opinion of all men, and was so highly prized in the good opinion of the Queen, that she thought the Court deficient without him : And whereas (through the fame of his...
Page 211 - he will not die at this time, for this morning I begged his life from God in my prayers, and obtained it : " which accordingly came to pass; and he soon after, against all expectation, wonderfully recovered.
Page 522 - I gave you, and which you should not endure if you have any courage at all in you. If you consent not to meet me hereupon, I will hold you, and cause you to be generally held, for the arrantest coward, and most slanderous slave, that lives in all France. I expect your answer.
Page 399 - To him men's faces spake as much as their tongues, and their countenances were indexes of their hearts. He would so beset men with questions, and draw them on, that they discovered themselves whether they answered or were silent.
Page 43 - And let thy kitchens be a vestal flame. Thee to the town let never suit at law, And rarely, very rarely, business draw. Thy active mind in equal temper keep, In undisturbed peace, yet not in sleep. Let exercise a vigorous health maintain, Without which all the composition's vain.