Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: John Pym; John Hampden. By John ForsterLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1837 |
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... honour and 1 See Heylin's Life of Laud , p . 137. Cabala , p . 156 . 2 Rushworth , Coll . vol . i . p . 199 . 3 Eliot's Life , p . 38-48 . VOL . III . D grants of land for poor and unworthy creatures of his JOHN PYM . 333.
... honour and 1 See Heylin's Life of Laud , p . 137. Cabala , p . 156 . 2 Rushworth , Coll . vol . i . p . 199 . 3 Eliot's Life , p . 38-48 . VOL . III . D grants of land for poor and unworthy creatures of his JOHN PYM . 333.
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grants of land for poor and unworthy creatures of his own , and also with embezzling the king's money , and securing to himself grants of crown property of enormous value , on dishonest conditions , to the gross prejudice of the crown ...
grants of land for poor and unworthy creatures of his own , and also with embezzling the king's money , and securing to himself grants of crown property of enormous value , on dishonest conditions , to the gross prejudice of the crown ...
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... land ; and then , having subdivided these charges into separate branches , he presented each to the attention of the house with such popular clearness and brevity , and in such a natural and lucid order , that what must otherwise have ...
... land ; and then , having subdivided these charges into separate branches , he presented each to the attention of the house with such popular clearness and brevity , and in such a natural and lucid order , that what must otherwise have ...
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... land to the dignity ( lest , being wasted , the party returns to the crown for a new support ) ; by which provision the crown will reap this benefit , —that as some lands go out by new grants , others will come in by extinct entails ...
... land to the dignity ( lest , being wasted , the party returns to the crown for a new support ) ; by which provision the crown will reap this benefit , —that as some lands go out by new grants , others will come in by extinct entails ...
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... land absorbed from the public estate by Buckingham , and afterwards summed up his share of the great duty that had been assigned to him by the house of commons , in this grave and deliberate manner . " This is a great sum in itself ...
... land absorbed from the public estate by Buckingham , and afterwards summed up his share of the great duty that had been assigned to him by the house of commons , in this grave and deliberate manner . " This is a great sum in itself ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accused actions affections answer Anthony à Wood army bill bishops Buckinghamshire cause charge Charles church Clarendon command committee commonwealth counsels court crown danger death declared defence designs desire divers doth earl of Strafford Edward Eliot endeavoured England Essex evil favour force gentlemen give grievances hath high treason Hist honour hope house of commons house of lords impeachment John John Hampden John Pym justice king king's kingdom Laud letter liament liberty London lord Clarendon lord Nugent lordships majesty majesty's matter ment mischief never noble observed occasion Oxford Parl parliament party peace persons petition petition of right prerogative present prince prisoner privilege proceedings Pym and Hampden Pym's reason received religion Rushworth says sent sheriffs ship money speaker speech statute taken thereof things thought tion tonnage and poundage truth unto votes words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 13 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Seite 12 - I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice ; howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times.
Seite 7 - ... truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Seite 353 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Seite 274 - Domini, and that is enough to silence all passion in me. The God of peace in his good time send us peace, and in the meantime fit us to receive it ! We are both on the stage, and we must act the parts that are assigned us in this tragedy. Let us do it in a way of honour, and without personal animosities.
Seite 333 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias...
Seite 71 - ... those foundations of right by which men valued their security, to the apprehension and understanding of wise men, never more in danger to be destroyed.
Seite 199 - Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence; statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king.
Seite 379 - He was indeed a very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever knew.
Seite 268 - The law is that which puts a difference betwixt good and evil, — betwixt just and unjust. If you take away the law, all things will fall into a confusion. Every man will become a law to himself, which, in the depraved condition of human nature, must needs produce many great enormities. Lust will become a law, and envy will become a law ; covetousness and ambition will become laws...