The Life of William Lord Russell: With Some Account of the Times in which He LivedLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819 - 329 страници |
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... desired to be made into the books of the Treasury . It is here proper to state , that since the enquiry mentioned in page 182. , respecting the death of Lord Essex , I have been informed that the books of payments and receipts for the ...
... desired to be made into the books of the Treasury . It is here proper to state , that since the enquiry mentioned in page 182. , respecting the death of Lord Essex , I have been informed that the books of payments and receipts for the ...
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... desired their interests might not be considered by the House of Commons . An address was voted , declaring that penal statutes , in matters ecclesiastical , cannot be suspended , but by act of parliament . Clifford attacked this vote ...
... desired their interests might not be considered by the House of Commons . An address was voted , declaring that penal statutes , in matters ecclesiastical , cannot be suspended , but by act of parliament . Clifford attacked this vote ...
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... desired to doe , that I might entertain your deare selfe the better by this letter , and soe could have bin content to be to - morrow morning , as ignorant as I was this , for all my endes and designes in this world are to be as useful ...
... desired to doe , that I might entertain your deare selfe the better by this letter , and soe could have bin content to be to - morrow morning , as ignorant as I was this , for all my endes and designes in this world are to be as useful ...
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... desired more . * The instructions themselves were to be shown to Lewis , or his minister , if Lord Duras should think proper ; and finally , no time was fixed for his return , and he was only desired to obtain the judg- ment of the King ...
... desired more . * The instructions themselves were to be shown to Lewis , or his minister , if Lord Duras should think proper ; and finally , no time was fixed for his return , and he was only desired to obtain the judg- ment of the King ...
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... desired to keep up his army and navy . The Commons prayed May 21 . * Reresby . + Dal . p . 165 . He endeavoured to employ Sir W. Temple in this negociation ; but that upright man was so offended , that , after evading the employment by ...
... desired to keep up his army and navy . The Commons prayed May 21 . * Reresby . + Dal . p . 165 . He endeavoured to employ Sir W. Temple in this negociation ; but that upright man was so offended , that , after evading the employment by ...
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Страница 312 - He appeared very ambitious to learn to write ; and one of the attornies got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase ; and that was his desk, where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business, and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed his faculties, and fell to forms, and, by books that were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk ; and, by the Same course...
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Страница 315 - Causes at his House, the Company have waited five hours in a Morning, and, after Eleven, he hath come out inflamed, and staring like one distracted. And that Visage he put on when he animadverted on such as he took Offence at, which made him a Terror to real Offenders; whom also he terrified, with his Face and Voice, as if the Thunder of the Day of Judgment broke over their Heads: And nothing ever made Men tremble like his vocal Inflictions. He loved to insult, and was bold without Check; but that...
Страница 74 - As for the share I had in the prosecution of the Popish Plot, I take God to witness that I proceeded in it in the sincerity of my heart, being then really convinced, as I am still, that there was a conspiracy against the King, the nation, and the Protestant religion...
Страница 45 - I, AB, do declare, that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king : and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him...
Страница 314 - ... chief justice of the King's Bench at that nice time. And the ministry could not but approve of it. So great a weight was then at stake as could not be trusted to men of doubtful principles, or such as any thing might tempt to desert them.
Страница 201 - Queen or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the King in his realm...
Страница 315 - He seemed to lay nothing of his business to heart, nor care what he did, or left undone ; and spent, in the Chancery Court, what time he thought fit to spare. Many times, on days of causes at his house, the company have waited five hours in a morning ; and, after eleven, he hath come out inflamed, and staring like one distracted. And that visage he put on, when he animadverted on such as...
Страница 314 - When he was in temper and matters indifferent came before him, he became his seat of justice better than any other I ever saw in his place. He took a pleasure in mortifying fraudulent attorneys, and would deal forth his severities with a sort of majesty.
Страница 223 - He said there was a signal providence of God in giving him such a wife, where there was birth, fortune, great understanding, great religion, and great kindness to him ; but her carriage in this extremity was beyond all.