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... Council Office , and was docketed by the Secretary of State , " Old Mrs. Cromwell , Noll's wife's petition . " The sorrowful woman was willing to swear that she had never intermeddled with any of those public transactions which had been ...
... Council Office , and was docketed by the Secretary of State , " Old Mrs. Cromwell , Noll's wife's petition . " The sorrowful woman was willing to swear that she had never intermeddled with any of those public transactions which had been ...
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... his country , he took his passage to America , and that the vessel was stopped by an order in Council . Whether he looked to emigration at some other time , we do not know . What is credible enough is Clarendon's story that.
... his country , he took his passage to America , and that the vessel was stopped by an order in Council . Whether he looked to emigration at some other time , we do not know . What is credible enough is Clarendon's story that.
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... Council of the disgraceful and unseemly speeches used to them by him and another person , and one day a messenger from the Council carried the two offenders under arrest to London ( November 1630 ) . There was a long hearing with CHAP ...
... Council of the disgraceful and unseemly speeches used to them by him and another person , and one day a messenger from the Council carried the two offenders under arrest to London ( November 1630 ) . There was a long hearing with CHAP ...
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... council amounted to ; what differences in power and pre- rogative marked the office of a king when it was filled by Angevin , by Plantagenet , or by Tudor ; how the control of parliament over legislation and taxation stood under the ...
... council amounted to ; what differences in power and pre- rogative marked the office of a king when it was filled by Angevin , by Plantagenet , or by Tudor ; how the control of parliament over legislation and taxation stood under the ...
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... council- chamber , in the church , from the judicial bench , - these three great centres of organised government , -in all he saw prevailing the same favour for arbitrary power , and from all he learned the same oblique lessons of ...
... council- chamber , in the church , from the judicial bench , - these three great centres of organised government , -in all he saw prevailing the same favour for arbitrary power , and from all he learned the same oblique lessons of ...
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Page 15 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 427 - Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in Covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee, for Thy People. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service...
Page 426 - Park ; and before I came to him, as he rode at the head of his life-guard, I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him : and when I came to him he looked like a dead man.
Page 144 - Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions ; if they be willing faithfully to serve it, — that satisfies.
Page 292 - He was a strong man," so intimates Charles Harvey, who knew him: "in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope shone in him like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others.
Page 109 - I did this somewhat, impute it to what you please: I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, as made some conscience of what they did, and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy they beat continually.
Page 432 - Your pretended fear lest Error should step in, is like the man who would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition he may abuse it. When he doth abuse it, judge.
Page 207 - I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government...
Page 367 - The mind is the man. If that be kept pure, a man signifies somewhat ; if not, I would very fain see what difference there is betwixt him and a beast. He hath only some activity to do some more mischief.
Page 23 - Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.