Monk's Contemporaries: Biographic Studies on the English RevolutionBohn, 1851 - 195 pages |
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... serving their cause and combating its enemies . When , in 1659 , after the death of Cromwell , England , restored to herself , was compelled to seek on all sides for a government , in the midst of the lassitude and impotent agitation of ...
... serving their cause and combating its enemies . When , in 1659 , after the death of Cromwell , England , restored to herself , was compelled to seek on all sides for a government , in the midst of the lassitude and impotent agitation of ...
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... serve as a rule for the ambassador of England ; to which objection we have the civility to make no answer , though there are many things which we could easily urge against him on this point . The king ordered me to pay him a visit ...
... serve as a rule for the ambassador of England ; to which objection we have the civility to make no answer , though there are many things which we could easily urge against him on this point . The king ordered me to pay him a visit ...
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... serve by his conduct that he is not at ease , but full of anxiety . It seems that his return to England is not agreeable to him ; and , when on the point of embarking , he received information from a merchant that the Dutch fleet had ...
... serve by his conduct that he is not at ease , but full of anxiety . It seems that his return to England is not agreeable to him ; and , when on the point of embarking , he received information from a merchant that the Dutch fleet had ...
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... serve a Parliament , to whom let a man be never so faithful , if one pragmatical fellow amongst them rise up and asperse him , he shall never wipe it off . Whereas , when one serves under a general , he may do as much service , and yet ...
... serve a Parliament , to whom let a man be never so faithful , if one pragmatical fellow amongst them rise up and asperse him , he shall never wipe it off . Whereas , when one serves under a general , he may do as much service , and yet ...
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... serves only to main- tain the lawyers , and to encourage the rich to oppress the poor . Mr. Čoke , now Justice of Ireland , by proceeding in a summary and expeditious way , determines more causes in a week than Westminster Hall in a ...
... serves only to main- tain the lawyers , and to encourage the rich to oppress the poor . Mr. Čoke , now Justice of Ireland , by proceeding in a summary and expeditious way , determines more causes in a week than Westminster Hall in a ...
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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...