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... honor . But in the reign of James the First there was one short cut to the House of Lords . It was but to ask , to pay , and to have . The sale of titles was carried on as openly as the sale of boroughs in our times . Hampden turned ...
... honor . But in the reign of James the First there was one short cut to the House of Lords . It was but to ask , to pay , and to have . The sale of titles was carried on as openly as the sale of boroughs in our times . Hampden turned ...
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... honors with which his family desired to see him invested , and attached himself to the party which was in op- position to the court . It was about this time , as Lord Nugent has justly remarked , that parliamentary opposition began to ...
... honors with which his family desired to see him invested , and attached himself to the party which was in op- position to the court . It was about this time , as Lord Nugent has justly remarked , that parliamentary opposition began to ...
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... honor and independence of the nation , and anxious only for the success of their own faction . We are utterly unable to see any distinction between the case of the Scotch invasion in 1640 and the case of the Dutch invasion . in 1688 ...
... honor and independence of the nation , and anxious only for the success of their own faction . We are utterly unable to see any distinction between the case of the Scotch invasion in 1640 and the case of the Dutch invasion . in 1688 ...
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... honor . A violent and sudden revulsion of feeling , both in the House and out of it , was the effect of the late proceedings of the King . The Opposition regained in a few hours all the ascendency which it had lost . The constitutional ...
... honor . A violent and sudden revulsion of feeling , both in the House and out of it , was the effect of the late proceedings of the King . The Opposition regained in a few hours all the ascendency which it had lost . The constitutional ...
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... honor could bind him , and that the only way to make him harmless was to make him powerless . The attack which the King had made on the five members was not merely irregular in manner . Even if the charges had been preferred legally ...
... honor could bind him , and that the only way to make him harmless was to make him powerless . The attack which the King had made on the five members was not merely irregular in manner . Even if the charges had been preferred legally ...
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Página 297 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 454 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 128 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Página 454 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 123 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Página 395 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last.
Página 454 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 316 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Página 454 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 177 - He was, unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious of men. His mind was a bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations. His features were covered by mask within mask. When the outer disguise of obvious affectation was removed, you were still as far as ever from seeing the real man.