Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed Passages of the First Volume, and Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, Hitherto Unpublished, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1823 - Great Britain |
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Page 13
... desired chiefly to cover the mi- nistry , who were all very obnoxious by their late actings . The court desired at least 1,200,000l .; for that sum was necessary to the carrying on the war . The great body of those who opposed the court ...
... desired chiefly to cover the mi- nistry , who were all very obnoxious by their late actings . The court desired at least 1,200,000l .; for that sum was necessary to the carrying on the war . The great body of those who opposed the court ...
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... desired to know the state of affairs in Scotland . I told him how little that kingdom could be depended on . [ I saw he was firm to duke Lauderdale : there- fore I laid the fault on others , and excused him the 358 best I could . But ] ...
... desired to know the state of affairs in Scotland . I told him how little that kingdom could be depended on . [ I saw he was firm to duke Lauderdale : there- fore I laid the fault on others , and excused him the 358 best I could . But ] ...
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... desired , he would call for some priests , and hear us discourse of those matters with them in his presence . He de- clined this ; and said , it would make a noise . He assured us , he desired nothing , but to follow his own conscience ...
... desired , he would call for some priests , and hear us discourse of those matters with them in his presence . He de- clined this ; and said , it would make a noise . He assured us , he desired nothing , but to follow his own conscience ...
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... desired : and even the loss of so important a place as Maestricht was not at all charged on him . So he brought the States to make applications to the king in the style of those who begged a peace , though it was visible they could have ...
... desired : and even the loss of so important a place as Maestricht was not at all charged on him . So he brought the States to make applications to the king in the style of those who begged a peace , though it was visible they could have ...
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... desired they would put their complaints in writing . They said , the laws were so oddly worded , and more oddly executed , in Scotland , that the modest- est paper they could offer might be condemned as leasing - making , and ...
... desired they would put their complaints in writing . They said , the laws were so oddly worded , and more oddly executed , in Scotland , that the modest- est paper they could offer might be condemned as leasing - making , and ...
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