State Trials: Or, A Collection of the Most Interesting Trials, Prior to the Revolution of 1688, Reviewed and Illustrated, Том 1Samuel March Phillipps W. Walker, 1826 |
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Страница 178 - to do what power will admit. Your Majesty, having tried all ways, and being refused, shall be acquitted before God and man, and you have an army in Ireland, that you may employ to reduce this kingdom to obedience, for I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five months. L. Arch.
Страница 186 - pardon my infirmity. Something I should have added, but am not able, — therefore let it pass. " And now, my Lords, for myself, I thank God I have been, by his good blessing towards me, taught, that the afflictions of this present life are not to be compared with that eternal weight of glory,
Страница 100 - That Thomas Earl of Strafford hath traitorously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental laws and government of the realms of England and Ireland, and instead thereof to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government against law, which he hath declared by traitorous words, counsels, and actions, and by giving His Majesty advice,
Страница 293 - he is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly put him out of the way. Think of this, and give me some account of it to-morrow : till when I have no more to say
Страница 218 - Master Lieutenant, I dare look death in the face, and, I hope, the people too. Have you a care, that I do not escape, and I care not how I die, whether by the hand of the executioner, or the madness and fury of the people; if that may give them better content, it is all one to me.
Страница 204 - But it was never accounted cruelty or foul play to knock foxes and wolves on the head, because these are beasts of prey. The warrener sets traps for pole-cats and other vermin, for preservation of the warren.
Страница 318 - in order to effect these innovations, of a public and general concern, by an armed force, are, in construction of law, high treason within the clause of levying war: for though they are not levelled at the person of the King, they are against his
Страница 353 - credence, which the principles and practices of the latter call for. And when the jury brought in their verdict against the prisoners, he said, "You have done, gentlemen, like very good subjects, and very good Christians, that is to say, like very good Protestants; and now much good may their 30,000 masses do them.
Страница 459 - glad they could prove their two last years' conversation. The very breath of him was pestilential; and, if it brought not imprisonment or death, over such on whom it fell, it surely poisoned reputation, and left good Protestants arrant Papists, and, something worse than that, in danger of being put into the plot as traitors
Страница 186 - that eternal weight of glory, which shall be revealed hereafter. And so, my Lords, even so, with all humility, and with all tranquillity of mind, I do submit myself clearly and freely to your judgment