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Passages of the First Volume, and Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, Hitherto Unpublished, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1823 - Great Britain |
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... passed to bring in a bill in favour of protestant dissenters , though there was not time enough , nor unanimity enough , to finish one this session : for it went no farther than a se- cond reading , but was dropt in the committee . But ...
... passed to bring in a bill in favour of protestant dissenters , though there was not time enough , nor unanimity enough , to finish one this session : for it went no farther than a se- cond reading , but was dropt in the committee . But ...
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... passed , which was 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 ...
... passed , which was 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 ...
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... passed almost a whole night ; and happened so far to please him , that he , who was apt to be fired with a new acquaintance , gave such a cha- racter of me to the king , that ever after that he took much notice of me , and said , he ...
... passed almost a whole night ; and happened so far to please him , that he , who was apt to be fired with a new acquaintance , gave such a cha- racter of me to the king , that ever after that he took much notice of me , and said , he ...
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... passed in an act of parlia- ment : [ but he kept to the same number of twelve . ] The boroughs of Scotland have by law a privilege of meeting once a year in a body , to consider of trade , and of bye - laws relating to it . At a conven ...
... passed in an act of parlia- ment : [ but he kept to the same number of twelve . ] The boroughs of Scotland have by law a privilege of meeting once a year in a body , to consider of trade , and of bye - laws relating to it . At a conven ...
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... passed between him and me * . This I ought not to have done , since they were the ef fects of confidence and friendship . But such a course of provocation might have heated a cooler and elder man than I was , being then but thirty , to ...
... passed between him and me * . This I ought not to have done , since they were the ef fects of confidence and friendship . But such a course of provocation might have heated a cooler and elder man than I was , being then but thirty , to ...
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