A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First Invasion of the Romans, to the Year 1763: With Genealogical and Political Tables ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 |
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iii. oldal
... interest the various struggles of this great nation for liberty , and traced the Constitution of England , gradually improving by a long series of revolutions , more or less rational in their operation , at last emerg- ing from them ...
... interest the various struggles of this great nation for liberty , and traced the Constitution of England , gradually improving by a long series of revolutions , more or less rational in their operation , at last emerg- ing from them ...
x. oldal
... interest and richness of the subject , induced me to undertake a more enlarged abridgment in the improved form of those of president Henault and Mr. Pfeffel for the histories of France and Ger- many ; as , besides the peculiar utility ...
... interest and richness of the subject , induced me to undertake a more enlarged abridgment in the improved form of those of president Henault and Mr. Pfeffel for the histories of France and Ger- many ; as , besides the peculiar utility ...
7. oldal
... interest , chancellor of Cambridge , in the room of the earl of Suffolk . The commons considered it as an affront offered to them , and loudly complained of it ; and the more to enrage them , the king himself wrote a letter to the ...
... interest , chancellor of Cambridge , in the room of the earl of Suffolk . The commons considered it as an affront offered to them , and loudly complained of it ; and the more to enrage them , the king himself wrote a letter to the ...
14. oldal
... interest had been hitherto deemed incompatible . The little plausibility of all the motives he gave to that unaccountable rupture urged on by Bucking- ham , has induced the most respectable English his- torians , such as Clarendon and ...
... interest had been hitherto deemed incompatible . The little plausibility of all the motives he gave to that unaccountable rupture urged on by Bucking- ham , has induced the most respectable English his- torians , such as Clarendon and ...
30. oldal
... interest with their party , and were even pursued as traitors with implacable resentment . This was the case with sir Thomas Wentworth , whom the king created successively baron , viscount , earl of Strafford , president of the council ...
... interest with their party , and were even pursued as traitors with implacable resentment . This was the case with sir Thomas Wentworth , whom the king created successively baron , viscount , earl of Strafford , president of the council ...
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480. oldal - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
534. oldal - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
480. oldal - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
20. oldal - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
510. oldal - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel and the protestant reformed religion established by law...
473. oldal - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
179. oldal - ... in that very hour when he was thus wickedly murdered in the sight of the sun, he had as great a share in the hearts and affections of his subjects in general, was as much beloved, esteemed, and longed for by the people in general of the three nations, as any of his predecessors had ever been.
178. oldal - Consider, it will soon carry you a great way; it will carry you from earth to heaven; and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.
8. oldal - I pray you to consider what these new counsels are, and may be. I fear to declare those that I conceive. In all Christian kingdoms you know that parliaments were in use anciently, until the monarchs began to know their own strength ; and, seeing the turbulent spirit of their parliaments, at length they, by little and little, began to stand upon their prerogatives, and at last overthrew the parliaments throughout Christendom, except here only -with us.
63. oldal - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation."*** He was soon able, however, to collect his courage; and he prepared himself to suffer the fatal sentence.