The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688, Tập 12

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J.J. Tourneisen, 1789 - 225 trang
 

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Trang 138 - ... the petition. On their refusal to give bail, an order was immediately drawn for their commitment to the Tower ; and the crown lawyers received directions to prosecute them for the seditious libel which, it was pretended, they had composed and uttered.
Trang 92 - ... said, were involved with the guilty. And on the whole, besides those who were butchered by the military commanders, two hundred and fifty-one are computed to have fallen by the hand of justice.
Trang 90 - As if to make sport with death, he ordered a certain number to be executed, while he and his company should drink the king's health, or the queen's, or that of chief justice Jefferies. Observing their feet to quiver in the agonies of death, he cried that he would give them music to their dancing, and he immediately commanded the drums to beat and the trumpets to sound.
Trang 206 - ... nation could have embraced with regard to its domestic occurrences. Compositions the most despicable, both for style and matter...
Trang 134 - 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 are attacked. Men are illegally dispossessed of their...
Trang 169 - England was in commotion. Lord Delamere took arms in Cheshire, the earl of Danby seized York, the earl of Bath, governor of Plymouth, declared for the prince, the earl of Devonshire made a like declaration in Derby.
Trang 137 - 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 proceedeth neither from any want of duty and...
Trang 64 - When considered as a companion, he appears the most amiable and engaging of men; and indeed, in this view, his deportment must be allowed altogether unexceptionable. His love of raillery was so tempered with good breeding, that it was never offensive; his propensity to satire was so checked with discretion, that his friends never dreaded their becoming the object of it: his wit, to use the expression of one who knew him...
Trang 173 - God help me," cried he, in the extremity of his agony, " my own children have forsaken me.
Trang 137 - ... be confidered and fettled in parliament and convocation. But among many other confiderations , from this efpecially, becaufe that declaration is founded upon fuch a difpenfing power as hath been often declared illegal in...

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