The History of England: From the Earliest Times to the Death of George II.T. Davies ... Becket and De Hondt, and T. Cadell, 1771 |
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... reign began with acts of imprudence . All the customs , and the greater part of the excise , that had been voted to the late king for his life only , were levied by James , without a new act for that purpose . He likewife went openly to ...
... reign began with acts of imprudence . All the customs , and the greater part of the excise , that had been voted to the late king for his life only , were levied by James , without a new act for that purpose . He likewife went openly to ...
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... reign ; but the progress no way fell short of the commencement . He had , long before the commencement of his reign , had an intrigue with one Mrs. Sed- ley , whom he afterwards created countess of Dorchester ; but being now told that ...
... reign ; but the progress no way fell short of the commencement . He had , long before the commencement of his reign , had an intrigue with one Mrs. Sed- ley , whom he afterwards created countess of Dorchester ; but being now told that ...
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... reign , when he had a penfion of four hundred pounds a year fettled upon him . Thus Oates remains as a ftain upon the times in every part of his conduct . It is a stain upon them that he was first believed , it is a stain upon them that ...
... reign , when he had a penfion of four hundred pounds a year fettled upon him . Thus Oates remains as a ftain upon the times in every part of his conduct . It is a stain upon them that he was first believed , it is a stain upon them that ...
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... Addreffing himself to the earl of Bedford , father to lord Ruffel , who had been executed in the former reign by the in- trigues of James , " My lord , faid the king , you " you are an honeft man , have credit , JAMES II . 41.
... Addreffing himself to the earl of Bedford , father to lord Ruffel , who had been executed in the former reign by the in- trigues of James , " My lord , faid the king , you " you are an honeft man , have credit , JAMES II . 41.
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... reign jointly as king and queen of England , while the adminiftra- tion of government fhould be placed in the hands of the prince only . The marquis of Hallifax , as fpeaker of the house of lords , made a folemn tender of the crown to ...
... reign jointly as king and queen of England , while the adminiftra- tion of government fhould be placed in the hands of the prince only . The marquis of Hallifax , as fpeaker of the house of lords , made a folemn tender of the crown to ...
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Стр. 27 - Holloway, who had appeared to favour the bishops : he issued orders to prosecute all those clergymen who had not read his declaration ; that is, the whole church of England, two hundred excepted : he sent a mandate to the new fellows, whom he had obtruded on Magdalen college, to elect for president in the room of Parker, lately deceased, one Gifford, a doctor of the Sorbonne, and titular bishop of Madura: and he is even said to have nominated the same person to the see of Oxford.
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Стр. 395 - ... line, he had been aimed at by the enemy's marksmen, and received a shot in the wrist, which, however, did not oblige him to quit the field. Having wrapped a handkerchief round his hand, he continued giving orders without the least emotion, and advanced at the head of the grenadiers with their bayonets fixed...