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... took no care to conceal her conviction , that the birth was spurious , and intended for the establishment of a Roman Catholic successor to that throne which must have otherwise devolved on a line of Protestants . Her father did not ...
... took no care to conceal her conviction , that the birth was spurious , and intended for the establishment of a Roman Catholic successor to that throne which must have otherwise devolved on a line of Protestants . Her father did not ...
Pagina 11
... took place in the year 1708. During the latter days of her reign the kingdom was in a state of excitement from the dangers of a disputed succession , and few subjects have been more hotly agitated than the question , whether or not what ...
... took place in the year 1708. During the latter days of her reign the kingdom was in a state of excitement from the dangers of a disputed succession , and few subjects have been more hotly agitated than the question , whether or not what ...
Pagina 13
... took place , with the usual solemnities , on the 20th of October . At the first court which he held he treated some of the late queen's ministers with marked contempt , and others with coldness . Lord Oxford was permitted to kiss the ...
... took place , with the usual solemnities , on the 20th of October . At the first court which he held he treated some of the late queen's ministers with marked contempt , and others with coldness . Lord Oxford was permitted to kiss the ...
Pagina 17
... took no pleasure in hearing any thing but niaiseries ; since his accession to the throne of England , she adds , he had also be- come insupportably haughty and imperious . In his old age the king . was guilty of the wickedness and folly ...
... took no pleasure in hearing any thing but niaiseries ; since his accession to the throne of England , she adds , he had also be- come insupportably haughty and imperious . In his old age the king . was guilty of the wickedness and folly ...
Pagina 18
... took place ; and her royal husband most iniquitously caused her will , together with that of her father , the duke of Zell , to be burned , in order , as it was believed , to deprive his own son , the prince of Wales , of some important ...
... took place ; and her royal husband most iniquitously caused her will , together with that of her father , the duke of Zell , to be burned , in order , as it was believed , to deprive his own son , the prince of Wales , of some important ...
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Pagina 75 - An Act for the Amendment of the Law, and the better Advancement of Justice...
Pagina 265 - The cause of Congreve was not tenable: whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Pagina 397 - I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Pagina 210 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God...
Pagina 56 - Trevor, and who was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II.
Pagina 275 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
Pagina 398 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Pagina 53 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.
Pagina 254 - The university approved the contents of this letter, and accordingly created Mr. AtterburyD.D. Our author's work was entitled, "The Rights, Powers, and Privileges of an English Convocation, stated and vindicated, in answer to a late book of Dr.
Pagina 423 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.