The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688. 5 vols. [in 9. The plates are dated 1797 to 1806].Cadell and Davies, 1812 |
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... King flies to the Isle of Wight . - Second Civil War . Invasion from Scotland . -The Treaty of Newport . The Civil War and In- vasion repressed . The King seized again by the Army . The House purged . - The King's Trial- and Execution ...
... King flies to the Isle of Wight . - Second Civil War . Invasion from Scotland . -The Treaty of Newport . The Civil War and In- vasion repressed . The King seized again by the Army . The House purged . - The King's Trial- and Execution ...
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... King's troops , full of gentry and nobility , had exercised a valour superior to their ene- mies , and had hitherto been successful in almost every rencounter : But , in proportion as the whole nation became warlike , by the continuance ...
... King's troops , full of gentry and nobility , had exercised a valour superior to their ene- mies , and had hitherto been successful in almost every rencounter : But , in proportion as the whole nation became warlike , by the continuance ...
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... King's southern and northern quarters . With a small force , but that animated by his active courage , he broke ... King found himself , in the main , a considerable loser by this winter- campaign ; and he prognosticated a still worse ...
... King's southern and northern quarters . With a small force , but that animated by his active courage , he broke ... King found himself , in the main , a considerable loser by this winter- campaign ; and he prognosticated a still worse ...
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... King retired into that city , to lay siege to it , and by one enterprise put a period to the war . The King , leaving a numerous garrison in Oxford , passed with dexterity between the two armies , which had taken Abingdon and had ...
... King retired into that city , to lay siege to it , and by one enterprise put a period to the war . The King , leaving a numerous garrison in Oxford , passed with dexterity between the two armies , which had taken Abingdon and had ...
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... King pressed them on one side ; Prince Maurice on another : Sir Richard Granville on a third . Essex , Robarts , and some of the principal officers , escaped in a boat to Plymouth : Balfour with his horse passed the King's out - posts ...
... King pressed them on one side ; Prince Maurice on another : Sir Richard Granville on a third . Essex , Robarts , and some of the principal officers , escaped in a boat to Plymouth : Balfour with his horse passed the King's out - posts ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 499 - When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined, " There is one certain means," replied the prince, " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin : I will die in the last ditch.
Seite 454 - Company, should be deemed a betrayer of the rights and liberties of the Commons of England, and an infringer of the privileges of the House of Commons.
Seite 219 - You are no longer a parliament. I tell you, you are no longer a parliament. The Lord has done with you: he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work." Sir Harry Vane exclaiming against this proceeding, he cried with a loud voice, "O! Sir Harry Vane, Sir Harry Vane! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane!
Seite 74 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye : why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
Seite 111 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Seite 288 - ... be as noble and liberal in the spending of them ; and lastly, (for there is no end of all the particulars of his glory) to bequeath all this with one word to his posterity ; to die with peace at home, and triumph abroad; to be buried among kings...
Seite 287 - ... of mind, which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness to succeed in, so improbable a design, as the destruction of one of the most ancient and...
Seite 219 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Seite 142 - At these words, the child looked very steadfastly upon him. "Mark, child! what I say: they will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: but mark what I say: thou must not be a king as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them!
Seite 530 - Canary patent and other illegal patents ; that he had advised and procured divers of his majesty's subjects to be imprisoned against law, in remote islands...