The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Third, Volume 9T. Tegg, 1828 - Great Britain |
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Page 226 - Farewell sun, moon, and stars; farewell world and time; farewell weak and frail body : welcome eternity ; welcome angels and saints; welcome Saviour of the world; and welcome God, the judge of all...
Page 308 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 4 - Your troops,' said I, are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows; and, said I, ' their troops are gentleman's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Page 375 - That the lords and commons are of opinion, " that there hath been, and still is, a damnable and " hellish plot, contrived and carried on by the popish " recusants, for assassinating the king, for subverting the " government, and for rooting out and destroying the
Page 69 - ... call together parliaments with a word of his pen, and scatter them again with the breath of his mouth ; to be humbly and daily petitioned...
Page 235 - Skinner against the East India Company, should be deemed a betrayer of the rights and liberties of the commons of England, and an infringer of the privileges of the house of commons.
Page 68 - What can be more extraordinary, than that a person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness to succeed in, so improbable a design, as the destruction of one of the most ancient and...
Page 69 - ... to be as noble and liberal in the spending of them; and lastly (for there is no end of all the particulars of his glory) to bequeath all this with one word to his posterity ; to die with peace at home, and triumph abroad ; to be buried among kings, and with more than regal solemnity ; and to leave a name behind him, not to be extinguished but with the whole world ; which, as it is...
Page 189 - It was enacted, that no dissenting teacher, who took not the nonresistance oath above mentioned, should, except upon the road, come within five miles of any corporation, or of any place, where he had preached after the act of oblivion. The penalty was a fine of fifty pounds, and six months
Page 280 - There is one certain means," replied the prince, " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin : I will die in the last ditch.