An Epitomy of English History: Wherein Arbitrary Government is Display'd to the Life, in the Illegal Transactions of the Late Times Under the Tyrannick Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell; Being a Paralell to the Four Years Reign of the Late King James, Whose Government was Popery, Slavery and Arbitrary Power, But Now Happily Delivered by the Instrumental Means of King William & Queen Mary |
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Page 208 - About his palace their broad roots are toft Into the air. — So Romulus was loft ! New Rome in fuch a tempeft mifs'd her King; And, from obeying, fell to worihiping..
Page 208 - Princes that fear'd him, grieve j concern'd to fee No pitch of Glory from the Grave is free. Nature her felf took notice of his Death; And, fighing, fwell'd the Sea with fuch a Breath ; That to remoteft Shears her Billows roll'd, Th' approaching Fate of their great Ruler told.
Page 31 - if any man moved " this upon defign, he fhould think him the greateft traitor " in the world; but fmce providence and neceffity had " caft them upon it, he fhould pray God to blefs their coun-. " cils, though he was not provided on the fudden to give