Monk's Contemporaries: Biographic Studies on the English RevolutionBohn, 1851 - 195 pages |
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... brought up by a haughty father , who openly lamented the departed glories of Elizabeth's splen- did court , and despised James I. , his timid pretensions , his contemptible pride , his avaricious countrymen , and his shame- ful ...
... brought up by a haughty father , who openly lamented the departed glories of Elizabeth's splen- did court , and despised James I. , his timid pretensions , his contemptible pride , his avaricious countrymen , and his shame- ful ...
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... brought against Strafford , Hollis strove to save the head of his brother - in - law , by attributing his conduct to the pressure of public violence . Secret nego- tiations commenced between the king and the chiefs of the reform party ...
... brought against Strafford , Hollis strove to save the head of his brother - in - law , by attributing his conduct to the pressure of public violence . Secret nego- tiations commenced between the king and the chiefs of the reform party ...
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... brought to judgment , and Hollis resumed , at Sainte - Mère - Eglide , on the other side of the Channel , the melancholy and inactive life of an exile . " " * It was during his first sojourn in this retreat , that he wrote his Memoirs ...
... brought to judgment , and Hollis resumed , at Sainte - Mère - Eglide , on the other side of the Channel , the melancholy and inactive life of an exile . " " * It was during his first sojourn in this retreat , that he wrote his Memoirs ...
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... brought to bed of a black ( more ) daughter . Be not astonished that I have not yet told you his name ; I cannot make up my mind to do so , and I must break the matter to you gently , lest you should fall down in a fainting fit at the ...
... brought to bed of a black ( more ) daughter . Be not astonished that I have not yet told you his name ; I cannot make up my mind to do so , and I must break the matter to you gently , lest you should fall down in a fainting fit at the ...
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... brought several letters to the am- bassador , and , among others , I know that there was one from Madame . The secretary - of - legation remained in his suite , and Petit posted back to Paris . He is the man who was formerly secretary ...
... brought several letters to the am- bassador , and , among others , I know that there was one from Madame . The secretary - of - legation remained in his suite , and Petit posted back to Paris . He is the man who was formerly secretary ...
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Page 181 - The particular you mention has indeed been mentioned to me, as a secret ; I am sorry I ever knew it ; and when it ceases to be a secret, it will please none but MR. MILTON...
Page 68 - ... he fell from his duty, and all his former friends, and prostituted himself to the vile office of celebrating the infamous acts of those who were in rebellion against the King ; which he did so meanly, that he seemed to all men to have lost his wits when he left his honesty; and so shortly after died miserable and neglected, and deserves to be forgotten.
Page 77 - I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor : his linen was plain and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hat-band, his stature was of a good size, his sword stuck close to his side, his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untunable, and his eloquence full of fervour, for the subjectmatter would...
Page 32 - high carriages' of Holies and Company, he whispers Edmund Ludlow who sat by him, " These men will never leave till the Army pull them out by the ears...
Page 121 - I entertained myself with elder company, to whom I was very acceptable ; and living in the house with many persons that had a great deal of wit, and very profitable serious discourses being frequent at my father's table and in my mother's drawing-room, I was very attentive to all, and gathered up things that I would utter again to great admiration of many that took my memory and imitation for wit.
Page 42 - That which we fought for,' said I, ' that the nation might be governed by its own consent.' ' I am,' said he, ' as much for a government by consent as any man ; but where shall we find that consent...