Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Sir Henry Vane, the Younger; Henry Marten. By John ForsterLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1838 |
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... judge to be most wicked and sin- ful , and that for these reasons : 1. Because this law doth leave these weighty matters of the com- monwealth , of receiving or rejecting such as come over , to the approbation of magistrates , and ...
... judge to be most wicked and sin- ful , and that for these reasons : 1. Because this law doth leave these weighty matters of the com- monwealth , of receiving or rejecting such as come over , to the approbation of magistrates , and ...
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... judges of ship money , their meaner asso- ciates , young Vane had made his powers conspicuous . In the triennial bill , the constitutional settlement of taxation , the destruction of despotic courts , the abo- lition of the king's ...
... judges of ship money , their meaner asso- ciates , young Vane had made his powers conspicuous . In the triennial bill , the constitutional settlement of taxation , the destruction of despotic courts , the abo- lition of the king's ...
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... judges in the course of his melancholy trial , " Nor will I deny but that , as to the manner of the prose- cution of the covenant to other ends than itself warrants , and with a rigid oppressive spirit ( to bring all dissent- ing minds ...
... judges in the course of his melancholy trial , " Nor will I deny but that , as to the manner of the prose- cution of the covenant to other ends than itself warrants , and with a rigid oppressive spirit ( to bring all dissent- ing minds ...
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... judge the measure fairly . Finally , after repeated conferences between the two houses , the ordinance was rejected by the lords on the 13th of January . * The last named objection was at once , with masterly promptitude , laid hold of ...
... judge the measure fairly . Finally , after repeated conferences between the two houses , the ordinance was rejected by the lords on the 13th of January . * The last named objection was at once , with masterly promptitude , laid hold of ...
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... judges , ' with eloquent and unanswer- able subtlety , to contradict it if they could . It was , that the very root and origin of monarchical government in England , was the assent of the people through their representatives , or in ...
... judges , ' with eloquent and unanswer- able subtlety , to contradict it if they could . It was , that the very root and origin of monarchical government in England , was the assent of the people through their representatives , or in ...
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amongst answer army authority Bradshaw brought called cause Charles Christ church civil Clarendon command commissioners committee commonwealth conscience consent constitution council counsel court covenant Cromwell death debate declared desire doth election enemies England execution exercise Fairfax faith favour friends give God's Godwin hands hath Henry Marten Hist honour house of commons house of lords house of peers interest Ireton judges judgment justice king king's kingdom liberty long parliament lords magistrate matter memorable ment Nathaniel Fiennes nation nature never occasion Oliver Cromwell once ordinance parliament party passed peace person petition and advice presbyterians present prisoner proceedings question reason religion religious republican resolution Richard Cromwell royalist Scot Scotland self-denying ordinance serjeant-at-arms sir Harry sir Henry Vane sitting spirit suffered thereof things Thomas Scot treaty trial unto Vane's vote wherein Whitelocke whole body words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 20 - To the weak he became as weak, that he might gain the weak : and was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some.
Seite 81 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding ; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Seite 221 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Seite 145 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Seite 373 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her, and that right early.
Seite 80 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot : who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Seite 296 - That the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, do declare that the people are, under God, the original of all just power. And do also declare, that the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, being chosen by, and representing the people, have the supreme power in this nation.
Seite 81 - ... O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all...
Seite 395 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.
Seite 91 - For what do the enemy say ? Nay, what do many say that were friends at the beginning of the Parliament ? Even this, That the Members of both Houses have got great places and commands, and the sword into their hands; and, what by interest in Parliament, what by power in the army, will perpetually continue themselves in grandeur and not permit the War speedily to end, lest their own power should determine with it.