The Pythouse Papers: Correspondence Concerning the Civil War, the Popish Plot, and a Contested Election in 1680. Transcribed from Mss. in the Possession of V.F. Benett-StanfordWilliam Ansell Day Bickers, 1879 - 105 Seiten |
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... parties , —and it is the worst or the weakest men who belong to them who generally exaggerate their own expressed opinions in the hope of inducing others to believe in their sincerity . To judge , however , that the quaint language and ...
... parties , —and it is the worst or the weakest men who belong to them who generally exaggerate their own expressed opinions in the hope of inducing others to believe in their sincerity . To judge , however , that the quaint language and ...
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... party strove to create or detect differences which might distinguish it from the other , and then the Sectaries became more and more self - righteous . in their tone , and the followers of the King made it a matter of pride to scoff at ...
... party strove to create or detect differences which might distinguish it from the other , and then the Sectaries became more and more self - righteous . in their tone , and the followers of the King made it a matter of pride to scoff at ...
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... parties , and a reputation which calumny itself never ventured to asperse . Henry Hastings , Lord Loughborough , was a man of a widely different stamp . A son of the Earl of Hunt- ingdon , he had all the advantages which rank and wealth ...
... parties , and a reputation which calumny itself never ventured to asperse . Henry Hastings , Lord Loughborough , was a man of a widely different stamp . A son of the Earl of Hunt- ingdon , he had all the advantages which rank and wealth ...
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... party of the King's horse under Colonel Hastings , took 120 horse , many prisoners and their arms . " Ten days later Whitelocke records that " the Clergy and others being summoned to Leicester to take the covenant , and very many of ...
... party of the King's horse under Colonel Hastings , took 120 horse , many prisoners and their arms . " Ten days later Whitelocke records that " the Clergy and others being summoned to Leicester to take the covenant , and very many of ...
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... parties claimed it as a victory , Essex remained in possession of the field , and gave orders for the burial of the dead . Sullenly the royal army withdrew , leaving the road open to their enemies , and in a few days time Essex entered ...
... parties claimed it as a victory , Essex remained in possession of the field , and gave orders for the burial of the dead . Sullenly the royal army withdrew , leaving the road open to their enemies , and in a few days time Essex entered ...
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Seite xxxii - ... wholly bound to obey the commands of his majesty, signified by both houses of parliament : and are resolved, by God's help, to keep this city accordingly.
Seite viii - I have eaten his bread, and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him; and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things which are against my conscience to preserve and defend : for I will deal freely with you, I have no reverence for the bishops, for whom this quarrel [subsists.]" It was not a time to dispute; and his affection to the church had never been suspected.
Seite lxiii - Though the loss of Bristol be a great blow to me, yet your surrendering it as you did is of so much affliction to me, that it makes me not only forget the consideration of that place, but is likewise the greatest trial of my constancy that hath yet befallen me ; for what is to be done, after one that is so near me as you are, both in blood and friendship, submits himself to so mean an action.
Seite xx - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Seite lxxxvi - That the lords and commons are of opinion, that there hath been, and still is, a damnable and hellish plot, contrived and carried on by the Popish recusants, for assassinating the king, for subverting the government, and for rooting out and destroying the Protestant religion.".
Seite ix - For let occasion be never so handsome, unless a man were resolved to fight on the parliament side, which, for my part, I had rather be hanged, it will be said, without doubt, that a man is afraid to fight. If there could be an expedient found to salve the punctilio of honor, I would not continue here an hour.
Seite xiii - ... war, could make him swerve from the most precise rules of it ; and of that rare piety and devotion, that the court, or camp, could not shew a more faultless person, or to whose example young men might more reasonably conform themselves.
Seite viii - I do not like the quarrel, and do heartily wish that the king would yield and consent to what they desire; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and in gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread, and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him; and choose rather to lose my life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend...
Seite xlii - York be relieved, and you beat the rebels' armies of both kingdoms which are before it, then, but otherwise not, I may possibly make a shift, upon the defensive, to spin out time until you come to assist me: Wherefore I command...