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Page 81
... Commons as a disbeliever in the Popish Plot , and by the king as an accomplice in the Rye - House Plot ; and that , if he had es- caped being hanged , first by Scroggs , and then by Jeffries , he would , after manfully opposing James ...
... Commons as a disbeliever in the Popish Plot , and by the king as an accomplice in the Rye - House Plot ; and that , if he had es- caped being hanged , first by Scroggs , and then by Jeffries , he would , after manfully opposing James ...
Page 85
... Commons would have been more se- Commons by force , to make a new crime , a rious than that with which he last honoured new tribunal , a new mode of procedure . The them ; more serious than that which their own whole legislative and ...
... Commons would have been more se- Commons by force , to make a new crime , a rious than that with which he last honoured new tribunal , a new mode of procedure . The them ; more serious than that which their own whole legislative and ...
Page 89
... Commons , would adorn all our squares , and overlook our public of - statement he has been charged with two high fices from Charing - Cross ; and sermons in his praise would be duly preached on his lucky day , the third of September ...
... Commons , would adorn all our squares , and overlook our public of - statement he has been charged with two high fices from Charing - Cross ; and sermons in his praise would be duly preached on his lucky day , the third of September ...
Page 97
... Commons , " says he , " in an en- philosopher in every part of the world . - As to deavour to obtain new advantages at the ex- Englishmen , it was their pride , their consola pense of the other orders of the state , for the tion . By it ...
... Commons , " says he , " in an en- philosopher in every part of the world . - As to deavour to obtain new advantages at the ex- Englishmen , it was their pride , their consola pense of the other orders of the state , for the tion . By it ...
Page 137
... Commons , and a person every way worthy of credit , who says he had it from Garrick . Now mark : -John- son's visit to Oxford , about the time of his doc . But we must proceed . These volumes con- tain mistakes more gross , if possible ...
... Commons , and a person every way worthy of credit , who says he had it from Garrick . Now mark : -John- son's visit to Oxford , about the time of his doc . But we must proceed . These volumes con- tain mistakes more gross , if possible ...
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