The history of England, المجلد 8Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... means by which they were to effect it , more impolitic and imprudent . Though they might talk only of recovering or fixing the king's authority , their intention could be no other than that of making him absolute ; since it was not ...
... means by which they were to effect it , more impolitic and imprudent . Though they might talk only of recovering or fixing the king's authority , their intention could be no other than that of making him absolute ; since it was not ...
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... means of acquiring arbitrary authority in England , where it was more detested than even slavery itself ? It must be allowed that the difficulties , and even in- consistencies , attending the schemes of the cabal , are so numerous and ...
... means of acquiring arbitrary authority in England , where it was more detested than even slavery itself ? It must be allowed that the difficulties , and even in- consistencies , attending the schemes of the cabal , are so numerous and ...
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... mean artifice was fallen upon by the king . After the secret conclusion and signature of the treaty , the king pretended to these three ministers that he wished to have a treaty and alliance with France for mutual support , and for a ...
... mean artifice was fallen upon by the king . After the secret conclusion and signature of the treaty , the king pretended to these three ministers that he wished to have a treaty and alliance with France for mutual support , and for a ...
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... means to force a dissolution of the parliament . His advice has no effect : the commons con- tinue as violent as ever ; and the king , finding that no busi- ness could be finished , at last prorogued the parliament . June 8 . When the ...
... means to force a dissolution of the parliament . His advice has no effect : the commons con- tinue as violent as ever ; and the king , finding that no busi- ness could be finished , at last prorogued the parliament . June 8 . When the ...
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... them- selves , by means of perseverance and policy , to be , in their present force , though not in their resources , the first VOL . VIII . с 1675 . 1675 . 1676 . maritime power in Europe . The CHARLES THE SECOND . 17.
... them- selves , by means of perseverance and policy , to be , in their present force , though not in their resources , the first VOL . VIII . с 1675 . 1675 . 1676 . maritime power in Europe . The CHARLES THE SECOND . 17.
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affairs afterwards alliance appeared army authority Bedloe bill bishops catholics Charles church commons conduct confessed conspiracy council country party court covenanters crown Danby dangerous declaration deemed disposition duchess of Portsmouth duke duke of Monmouth Dutch earl endeavoured enemies engaged England English entertained entirely evidence exclusion bill execution expedient exposed extremely faction farther favour former France French Holland honour house of peers hundred thousand pounds interest James jealousy jesuits jury king king's kingdom Lauderdale Lewis liberty London lord measures ment ministers monarch Monmouth nation never Nimeguen notwithstanding Oates obliged opposition pardon parlia parliament peace persons popery popish plot popular prejudices prerogative present pretended prince of Condé prince of Orange principles prisoner privy privy council prorogation prosecution reason refused regard reign rendered resolution resolved revenue Scotland seemed sent Shaftesbury sheriffs sovereign thought tion trial vigour violent voted whole witnesses zeal
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الصفحة 10 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the King ; and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commis•sioned by him...
الصفحة 64 - It is certain, that the restless and enterprising spirit of the catholic church, particularly of the Jesuits, merits attention, and is in some degree dangerous to every other communion : such zeal of proselytism actuates that sect, that its missionaries have penetrated into every nation of the globe ; and, in one sense, there is a popish plot perpetually carrying on against all states, protestant, pagan, and Mahometan...
الصفحة 73 - Jesuits concerning the same, by (a person so and so named), lately engaged in that horrid design, and one of the Popish committee for carrying on such fires.
الصفحة 7 - who is willing to be the man of his people, is the greatest king in the world, but if he wishes to be more, by heaven he is nothing at all!
الصفحة 187 - Here lies a great and mighty king Whose promise none relies on; He never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
الصفحة 187 - ... to himself. Negligent of the interests of the nation, careless of its glory, averse to its religion, . jealous of its liberty, lavish of its treasure, sparing only of its blood ; he exposed it by his measures, though he ever appeared but in sport, to the danger of a furious civil war, and even to the ruin and ignominy of a foreign conquest.
الصفحة 234 - This act of violence, of all those which were committed during the reign of James, is perhaps the most illegal and arbitrary. When the dispensing power was the most strenuously insisted on by court lawyers, it had still been allowed that the statutes which regard private property could not legally be infringed by that prerogative. Yet, in this instance, it appeared that even these were not now secure from invasion. The privileges of a college arc attacked ; men are illegally dispossessed of their...
الصفحة 236 - Majesty; nor yet from any want of due tenderness to Dissenters, in relation to whom they are willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit, when that matter shall be considered, and settled in parliament and convocation...
الصفحة 236 - That the great averseness they find in themselves to the distributing and publishing in all their churches your Majesty's late declaration for liberty of conscience...
الصفحة 240 - Holloway, who had appeared to favour the bishops : he issued orders to prosecute all those clergymen who had not read his declaration ; that is, the whole church of England, two hundred excepted : he sent a mandate to the new fellows, whom he had obtruded on Magdalen college, to elect for president in the room of Parker, lately deceased, one Gifford, a doctor of the Sorbonne, and titular bishop of Madura: and he is even said to have nominated the same person to the see of Oxford.