An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of James I. and Charles I. and of the Lives of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II...: From Original Writers and State-papers, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814 |
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... spirit of tyranny actuated their breasts , and made them feared and loathed whilst living , caused them to be abhorred since dead , and will render them infamous throughout all generations . I can add nothing to what Locke and Bayle ...
... spirit of tyranny actuated their breasts , and made them feared and loathed whilst living , caused them to be abhorred since dead , and will render them infamous throughout all generations . I can add nothing to what Locke and Bayle ...
Page xix
... spirit of the gos- pel , have set himself from the pulpit , to encourage the soldiers to storm a town , in which his brethren and countrymen were besieged . If storming was thought necessary by the generals , they themselves should have ...
... spirit of the gos- pel , have set himself from the pulpit , to encourage the soldiers to storm a town , in which his brethren and countrymen were besieged . If storming was thought necessary by the generals , they themselves should have ...
Page xxiii
... spirit up mobs , tumults and sedi- tions , till at length they become quite contemptible , and perhaps undergo the fate allotted to folly and vil- lany . One of the triers for the ministry . ] These were men appointed by Cromwell , to ...
... spirit up mobs , tumults and sedi- tions , till at length they become quite contemptible , and perhaps undergo the fate allotted to folly and vil- lany . One of the triers for the ministry . ] These were men appointed by Cromwell , to ...
Page xxvii
... spirit of true patriotism shall generally possess the breasts of our senators , I doubt not , but that they will apply themselves to our deliverance in good earn- est , and bring it to perfection ( as it was long ago done in Denmark ...
... spirit of true patriotism shall generally possess the breasts of our senators , I doubt not , but that they will apply themselves to our deliverance in good earn- est , and bring it to perfection ( as it was long ago done in Denmark ...
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... spirit ran high , and revenge actuated the breasts of those who bore rule : for such a one to be traduced , and blackened beyond his deserts , is no won- der . It is indeed hard to prove a negative ; and the concurring testimony of ...
... spirit ran high , and revenge actuated the breasts of those who bore rule : for such a one to be traduced , and blackened beyond his deserts , is no won- der . It is indeed hard to prove a negative ; and the concurring testimony of ...
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Page 90 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
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Page 45 - Sathan are most certainly practised, and that the instruments thereof merits most severely to be punished : against the damnable opinions of two principally in our age, whereof the one called Scot, an Englishman, is not ashamed in public print to deny that there can be such a thing as witchcraft ; and so maintains the old error of the Sadducees in denying of spirits.
Page 102 - Then Jack and Tom and Will and Dick shall meet, and at their pleasures censure me and my Council and all our proceedings. Then Will shall stand up and say, 'It must be thus'; then Dick shall reply and say, 'Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Page 48 - ... take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the skin, bone, or any other part of any dead person...
Page 222 - Kings are justly called Gods, for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of Divine power upon earth. For if you will consider the Attributes to God, you shall see how they agree in the person of a King.
Page 228 - And although we cannot allow of the style, calling it your ancient and undoubted right and inheritance, but could rather have wished that ye had said that your privileges were derived from the grace and permission of our ancestors and us...
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Page 45 - The fearful abounding, at this time, in this country, of these detestable slaves of the devil, the witches or enchanters, hath moved me (beloved reader) to dispatch, in post, this following Treatise of mine, not in any wise (as I protest) to serve for a...
Page 271 - Whosoever shall hereafter affirm, that the form of God's worship in the Church of England, established by law, and contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments, is a corrupt, superstitious, or unlawful worship of God, or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures...