The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688, Volume 5

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Little, Brown and Company, 1854 - Great Britain

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Page 144 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 46 - Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation.
Page 37 - What I forfeit for myself, it is nothing, but I confess, that my indiscretion should forfeit for them, it wounds me very deeply. You will be pleased to pardon my infirmity; something I should have said, but I see I shall not be able, and therefore I shall leave it.
Page 337 - Your troops,' said I, are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, and such kind of fellows; and, said I, ' their troops are gentleman's sons, younger sons, and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen, that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Page 86 - Pym, and Strode. The articles were, That they had traitorously endeavoured to subvert the fundamental laws and government of the kingdom, to deprive the king of his regal power, and to...
Page 274 - If ever, on any occasion, it were laudable to conceal truth from the populace, it must be confessed, that the doctrine of resistance affords such an example ; and that all speculative reasoners ought to observe, with regard to this principle, the same cautious silence, which the laws in every species of government have ever prescribed to themselves.
Page 333 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 333 - You are no longer a Parliament : I tell you, you are no longer a Parliament. The Lord has done with you : he has chosen other instruments for carrying on his work." Sir Harry Vane exclaiming against this proceeding, he cried with a loud voice, " 0 Sir Harry Vane ! Sir Harry Vane ! The Lord deliver me from Sir Harry Vane ! " Taking hold of Martin by the cloak, " Thou art a whoremaster,
Page 213 - And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter ? have we eaten at all of the king's cost! or hath he given us any gift...
Page 341 - God manifests this to be the Day of the Power of Christ ; having, through so much blood, and so much trial as hath been upon these Nations, made this to be one of the great issues thereof : To have His People called to the Supreme Authority...

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