The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon ...

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J.J. Tourneisen, 1798
 

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Pagina 24 - ... of will, and humour, and folly, and knavery, and ambition, and malice, which make men cling inseparably together, till they have satisfaction in all their pretences, or till they are absolutely broken and subdued, which may always be more easily done than the other.
Pagina 27 - Act of Uniformity might without Delay be passed and published; not without some Insinuations and Reflections, that his Majesty's Candour, and Admission of all Persons to resort to his Presence, and his Condescension to confer with them, had raised their Spirits to an Insolence insupportable; and that Nothing could reduce them to the Temper of good Subjects, but the highest Severity.
Pagina 142 - Overtures of their own with Pertinacy, it will be found a Model equally to advance the Trade of England with that of any other Company, even that of the Eaft-Indies.
Pagina 153 - And fo the, Debate was entered into in this Method , after enough was faid of the Straits the Crown was in, and what the yearly Expenfe was. (i.) " That the Profit which did or could accrue " to the Kingdom by the keeping of Dunkirk was " very inconfiderable , whether in War or Peace.
Pagina 9 - It is not to be wondered at, that the king, at the age he was of when the troubles began in England, and when he came out of England, knew very little of the laws which had been long since made and were still in force against Roman catholics, and less of the grounds and motives which had introduced those laws.
Pagina 169 - Majesty, that his affairs grew everyday worse and worse; the King himself lost much of his honour and the affection, he had in the hearts of the people ; that, for his part, he looked upon it with as much sadness as any man, and had made inquiry, as well as he could, from whence this great misfortune, which every body was...
Pagina 16 - ... that there was a spirit in the rest that was raised and governed by a passion, of which they could not comprehend the ground. And the truth is, the Jesuits, and they who adhered to them, had entertained great hopes from the king's too much grace to them, and from the great liberty they enjoyed ; and...
Pagina 15 - Arundel house, and consulted together with some of the principal lords and others of the prime quality of that religion, what they should say or do in such and such cases which probably might fall out. They all concluded, at least apprehended, that they should never be...
Pagina 73 - ... any employment. Nor when she came to Portsmouth, and found there several ladies of honour and prime quality to attend her in the places to which they were assigned by the king, did she receive any of them till the king himself came ; nor then with any grace, or the liberty that belonged to their places and offices.
Pagina 131 - Indeed his Majefty, who did not naturally love old Men, had not fo much Efteem of them as their Parts and Induftry and Integrity deferved, and would not have been forry if either or Both of them had died. SECRETARY Nicholas had ferved the Crown very many Years with a very good Acceptation, was made Secretary of State by the late King, and loved and trufted by him in his neareft Concernments to his Death: Nor had any Man, who ferved him, a more general Reputation of Virtue and Piety and.unqueftionable...

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