The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England: Being a Faithful Account of All the Most Remarkable Transactions in Parliament, from the Earliest Times. Collected from the Journals of Both Houses, the Records, Original Manuscripts, Scarce Speeches, and Tracts; All Compared Withthe Several Contemporary Writers, and Connected, Throughout, with the History of the Times. By Several Hands...Printed; and sold by T. Osborne; and W. Sandby, 1760 - Great Britain |
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... Such of the Members as produced their Paffport from the Council , having taken their Seats in the Houfe , the Lord Commiffioner Life put them in Mind , That their firft Work was to chufe a Speaker ; and propofed Sir Thomas Widdrington ...
... Such of the Members as produced their Paffport from the Council , having taken their Seats in the Houfe , the Lord Commiffioner Life put them in Mind , That their firft Work was to chufe a Speaker ; and propofed Sir Thomas Widdrington ...
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... such a Power , who can doubt but he may pack fuch a Number as will obey all his Com- • mands , and consent to his taking of what Part of our Eftates he pleaseth , and to impose what Yokes ' he thinks fit to make us draw in . ، 6 ...
... such a Power , who can doubt but he may pack fuch a Number as will obey all his Com- • mands , and consent to his taking of what Part of our Eftates he pleaseth , and to impose what Yokes ' he thinks fit to make us draw in . ، 6 ...
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... such an unheard - of Sovereign , that against him the People have no Claim of Right , or Pro- ' perty in themfelves , or in any Thing elfe ; for he hath now declared , That the People's Choice cannot give any Man a Right to fit in ...
... such an unheard - of Sovereign , that against him the People have no Claim of Right , or Pro- ' perty in themfelves , or in any Thing elfe ; for he hath now declared , That the People's Choice cannot give any Man a Right to fit in ...
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... such a Proof as is neceffary to a legal Conviction , yet fo much is known of the Actions and Conversation of the whole Party , as may fatisfy any indifferent Man , ( especially a State , who ought rather to be too jealous than too ...
... such a Proof as is neceffary to a legal Conviction , yet fo much is known of the Actions and Conversation of the whole Party , as may fatisfy any indifferent Man , ( especially a State , who ought rather to be too jealous than too ...
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... such a Time , when the Nation was big with Expectation of any Thing that might add to their better Being ; and therefore that he must needs put a very high Efteem upon , and have a very reverend Opinion of , any Thing that came from ...
... such a Time , when the Nation was big with Expectation of any Thing that might add to their better Being ; and therefore that he must needs put a very high Efteem upon , and have a very reverend Opinion of , any Thing that came from ...
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Page 140 - And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 128 - Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging...
Page 182 - I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this.
Page 371 - Faith to be agreed upon as aforesaid ; and such who profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, God co-equal with the Father and the Son, one God blessed for ever, and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to be the revealed Will and Word of God, and shall in other things differ in doctrine, worship or discipline, from the public profession held forth...
Page 140 - God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them : that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Page 184 - ... people might be the men that might rule all ; and they are endeavouring to engage the army to carry that thing. And hath that man been true to this nation...
Page 110 - I say I am persuaded to return this answer to you : that I cannot undertake this government with the title of King.
Page 199 - His most Serene and Renowned Highness Oliver Lord Protector, being after a sickness of about fourteen days (which appeared an Ague in the beginning) reduced to a very low condition of Body, began early this morning to draw near the gate of death; and it pleased God about three a clock afternoon to put a period to his life.
Page 43 - Westminster to the Old Exchange, London : and there likewise be set on the pillory, with his head in the pillory, for the space of two hours, between the hours of eleven and one, on Saturday next, in each place wearing a paper containing an inscription of his crimes ; and that at the Old Exchange his tongue be bored through with a hot iron and that he be there also stigmatized in the forehead with the letter B...
Page 254 - presuming to carry all before them, grew unmeasurably insolent, and all that could be done, was only to lengthen out their debates, and to hang on the wheels of the chariot, that they might not be able to drive so furiously.