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Page 61 - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? and what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Page 436 - God, promise, vow and protest to maintain and defend, as far as lawfully I may, with my Life, Power and Estate the true Reformed Protestant Religion, expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England, against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realm, contrary to the same Doctrine...
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Page 127 - Scotland somewhat shall be said in its due time and place,) enjoyed the greatest calm, and the fullest measure of felicity, that any people in any age, for so long time together, have been blessed with; to the wonder and envy of all the parts of Christendom.
Page 117 - Star-Chamber censuring the breach and disobedience to those proclamations by very great fines and imprisonment ; so that any disrespect to any acts of state, or to the persons of statesmen, was in no time more penal, and those foundations of right by F 4 which men valued their security, to the apprehension and understanding of wise men, never more in danger to be destroyed.
Page 98 - ... of vice, and without being clouded with great infirmities, which he had in too exorbitant a proportion. He indulged to himself the pleasures of all kinds, almost in all excesses.
Page 318 - ... business that was assumed; but a very weighty speaker, and after he had heard a full debate, and observed how the house was like to be inclined, took up the argument, and shortly, and clearly, and craftily so stated it, that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired; and if he found he could not do that, he was never without the dexterity to divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative, which might prove inconvenient in the future.
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| Title | The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which is Added an Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland, Volume 1 The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which is Added An Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland, Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon |
| Author | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 1 May 2007 |
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