Historical Memoirs Respecting the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics: From the Reformation, to the Present Time, Volume 3 |
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... received both by the house and the public : - some other papers circulated by his lordship on this occasion were also prepared by him . Lord Sandwich might serve as a model for a man of business . He rose early , he often appointed the ...
... received both by the house and the public : - some other papers circulated by his lordship on this occasion were also prepared by him . Lord Sandwich might serve as a model for a man of business . He rose early , he often appointed the ...
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... received many letters from Junius , which never were pub lished ; one , in particular , on the subject of improving the representation of the people . Their opinions were different . I remember Junius's letter began by his saying , he ...
... received many letters from Junius , which never were pub lished ; one , in particular , on the subject of improving the representation of the people . Their opinions were different . I remember Junius's letter began by his saying , he ...
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... received translation , but to the Vulgate , which , he said , the bishop always used , and which , ( by the way , ) Mr. Wilkes greatly admired . He described the bishop to be a saturnine , observing , profound , and silent man , such an ...
... received translation , but to the Vulgate , which , he said , the bishop always used , and which , ( by the way , ) Mr. Wilkes greatly admired . He described the bishop to be a saturnine , observing , profound , and silent man , such an ...
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... received by the post anonymous letters , some of them written in blood , accusing her of the most atrocious crimes . She was nearly related to a nobleman , very high in office ; by his desire , all the powers of government were exerted ...
... received by the post anonymous letters , some of them written in blood , accusing her of the most atrocious crimes . She was nearly related to a nobleman , very high in office ; by his desire , all the powers of government were exerted ...
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... received ; but he has never disguised to himself , that this was chiefly owing to the value and importance of the work , to which his annotations are appended . One more edition of it , more complete than the former , he yet hopes to ...
... received ; but he has never disguised to himself , that this was chiefly owing to the value and importance of the work , to which his annotations are appended . One more edition of it , more complete than the former , he yet hopes to ...
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Page xxxiii - ... every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest...
Page 137 - An Act for [the] Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments...
Page xxxii - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page xxxii - ... criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page xxxiii - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land.
Page xxviii - I do not fear to meet it single and alone. No one venerates the peerage more than I do, — but, my lords, I must say that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage. Nay more,— I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right...
Page xxvii - I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as...
Page xxviii - ... keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his majesty's conscience, as lord high chancellor of England, nay, even in that character alone in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Page xxxiii - Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
Page xxxii - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treat)- and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.