The Secret History of the Court and Reign of Charles the Second, Том 2

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T. Gillett, 1792
 

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Страница 343 - ... reason to envy my condition. Concerning the other imputation, of the credit and power of being chief minister and so causing...
Страница 374 - 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.
Страница 344 - Nor hath there been from that time to this above one or two persons brought to the Council, or preferred to any considerable office in the Court, who have been of...
Страница 342 - That my estate, my debts being paid, will not " yield me two thousand pounds per annum, for the " support of myself, and providing for two young " children, who have nothing : and that all I have " is not worth what the king in his bounty hath " bestowed upon me, his majesty having...
Страница 132 - Underftandings of Men. What was preached in the Pulpit was commented upon and derided in the Chamber, and Preachers acted, and Sermons vilified as laboured Difcourfes...
Страница 345 - I muft take the boldnefs to fay, that his majefty left nothing unattempted in order thereunto ; and knowing very well, that France refolved to begin a war upon Spain, as foon as his...
Страница 341 - I constantly observed, although the office in both their times was lawfully worth double to what it was to me and I believe now is...
Страница 346 - the state of affairs when the war was entered into " with the Dutch, from which time neither crown " much considered their making an alliance with

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