The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. 3 vols. [each in 2 pt.]. |
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الصفحة 759 - He was a very fine gentleman, active, and full of courage, and most accomplished in those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing, which accompany a good breeding; in which his delight was.
الصفحة 720 - ... custom of immoderate drinking, dozed in his understanding, which had been never quick and vigorous ; he having been always illiterate to the greatest degree that can be imagined. He was now become very deaf, yet often pretended not to have heard what he did not then contradict, and thought fit afterwards to disclaim. He was a man of few words, and of great compliance, and usually delivered that as his opinion, which he foresaw would be grateful to the king.
الصفحة 943 - Service ; which was pretended to be done ; and the very day named, by which, it was averr'd that he would be in the Houfe. A Rendezvous was then appointed, for their new General to take a View of their Troops, that he might appoint Officers to...
الصفحة 801 - By not being enough pleased with her fortune, he grew less pleased with his wife ; who, being a woman of a haughty and imperious nature, and of a wit superior to his, quickly resented the disrespect she received from him ; and in no degree studied to make herself easy to him.
الصفحة 987 - ... which was both from charging the enemy or assisting their own men. And upon this they all turned their horses and rode upon the spur, as if they were every man to shift for himself. It is very true that upon the more soldierly word stand...
الصفحة 753 - ... them. And though that party of the king's horse which charged the Scots so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fled all ways for many miles together...
الصفحة 849 - ... be always imputed to their example : but, that God had so blessed their army, that there had grown up with it, and under it, very many excellent officers, who were fit for much greater charges than they were now possessed of...
الصفحة 864 - There was a good House at the end of the Town, which was provided for the Treaty, where was a fair Room in the middle of the House, handsomely dressed up for the Commissioners to sit in ; a large square Table being placed in the middle with Seats for the Commissioners, one side being sufficient for those of either party ; and a Rail for others who should be thought necessary to be present, which went round.
الصفحة 1020 - Now, as for your opinion of my business, and your counsel thereupon, if I had any other quarrel but the defence of my religion, crown, and friends, you had full reason for your advice.
الصفحة 941 - ... present age, how difficult it was for a Prince, so unworthily reduced to those straits his Majesty was in, to find ministers and instruments equal to the great work that was to be done ; and how unlikely it was for him to have better success under their conduct, whom it was then very proper for him to trust with it ; and then, without my being over...