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... Prince George of Denmark . The marriage was celebrated on the 28th of July , 1683,5 and the prince , thus allied to the royal family of England , and afterwards thrown on the most alluring and easy paths to greatness which ambition ...
... Prince George of Denmark . The marriage was celebrated on the 28th of July , 1683,5 and the prince , thus allied to the royal family of England , and afterwards thrown on the most alluring and easy paths to greatness which ambition ...
Pagina 4
... prince of Orange , the latter , by a sort of instinctive docility , joined the standard of the falling monarch . On the king's retreat to London , Prince George , seeing others gradually desert his master , judged it no longer prudent ...
... prince of Orange , the latter , by a sort of instinctive docility , joined the standard of the falling monarch . On the king's retreat to London , Prince George , seeing others gradually desert his master , judged it no longer prudent ...
Pagina 5
... Prince of Orange , a decided coolness commenced betwixt the two royal sisters , which increased to an almost open rupture , on the friends of the Princess Anne having urged with considerable vehemence the revenue of £ 50,000 , which was ...
... Prince of Orange , a decided coolness commenced betwixt the two royal sisters , which increased to an almost open rupture , on the friends of the Princess Anne having urged with considerable vehemence the revenue of £ 50,000 , which was ...
Pagina 6
... prince . Excepting , however , the fears of the Jacobites themselves , and one document containing a charge of peculiar atro- city , little evidence has been brought to confirm the accusation , and justice to the memory of a great man ...
... prince . Excepting , however , the fears of the Jacobites themselves , and one document containing a charge of peculiar atro- city , little evidence has been brought to confirm the accusation , and justice to the memory of a great man ...
Pagina 7
... prince of Denmark being for- mally appointed generalissimo of all her forces by sea and land , So- mers and Halifax , who had enjoyed the confidence of the late king , were dismissed from the council , which was regulated by Marlborough ...
... prince of Denmark being for- mally appointed generalissimo of all her forces by sea and land , So- mers and Halifax , who had enjoyed the confidence of the late king , were dismissed from the council , which was regulated by Marlborough ...
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Pagina 75 - An Act for the Amendment of the Law, and the better Advancement of Justice...
Pagina 265 - The cause of Congreve was not tenable: whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.
Pagina 397 - I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Pagina 210 - But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God...
Pagina 56 - Trevor, and who was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II.
Pagina 275 - The difficulties and discouragements which attend the Study of the Scriptures, in the way of private judgment...
Pagina 398 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Pagina 53 - If the plaintiff has a right, he must of necessity have a means to vindicate and maintain it, and a remedy if he is injured in the exercise or enjoyment of it; and indeed it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.
Pagina 254 - The university approved the contents of this letter, and accordingly created Mr. AtterburyD.D. Our author's work was entitled, "The Rights, Powers, and Privileges of an English Convocation, stated and vindicated, in answer to a late book of Dr.
Pagina 423 - We were all, at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It will do — it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them.