The Ancestor, Volumen11

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Archibald Constable & Company, 1904
 

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Página 70 - A singular person, whose life was one contradiction. He wrote against Popery, and embraced it; he was a zealous opposer of the court, and a sacrifice for it ; was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon.
Página 70 - Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of lord Clarendon. With great parts he always hurt himself and his friends; with romantic bravery, he was always an unsuccessful commander.
Página 73 - YOU have received now a solemn account from the most of the shires of England, of the several grievances and oppressions they sustain, and nothing as yet from Dorsetshire. Sir, I would not have you think that I serve for a land of Goshen, that we live there in sunshine, whilst darkness and plagues overspread the rest of the land : As little would I have you think, that, being under the same sharp measure...
Página 76 - the king betake himself to a safe place, where he " may avow and protect his servants, (from rage I " mean and violence ; for from justice I will never " implore it,) I shall then live in impatience, and in " misery, till I wait upon you. But if, after all he " hath done of late, he shall betake himself to the " easiest and compliantest ways of accommodation, " I am confident, that then I shall serve him more " by my absence, than by all my industry.
Página 74 - Mr. Speaker, these are the circumstances which I confess with my conscience, thrust quite out of doors that grand article of our charge concerning his desperate advice to the King of employing the Irish army here.
Página 101 - Joane, daughter of Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and widow of Thomas, Earl of Kildare.
Página 208 - Oxford,1 to which so many distinguished scholars and politicians look back with affection. We must refer the reader to the volume itself . . and only wish that we had space to quote extracts from its interesting pages."— Spectator.
Página 74 - ... of discourses ; no results, no conclusions of councils ; which are the only things that secretaries should register ; there being no use of the other, but to accuse and bring men into danger. But , sir, this is not that which overthrows the evidence with me concerning the army in Ireland, nor yet that all the rest of the...
Página 208 - Dedicated by kind permission to the Right Hon. the Earl of Jersey, GCB , GCMG Demy 8vo, handsome binding, cloth extra, gilt top. With numerous Illustrations. Price 15*. net. ' Tnis beautiful book contains an exhaustive history of " the wondrous Oxford," to which so many distinguished scholars and politicians look back with affection.

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