Discourses on Government, Volume 1Richard Lee, 1805 - Monarchy |
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... matter out of dispute . But , if all other proof were wanting , this implacable hatred and un- wearied industry of the worst of men to suppress such writings , would abundantly testify their ex- cellency . That nations should be well ...
... matter out of dispute . But , if all other proof were wanting , this implacable hatred and un- wearied industry of the worst of men to suppress such writings , would abundantly testify their ex- cellency . That nations should be well ...
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... matters , and who had more than once turned the council - board of Oli- ver Cromwell ; Michael Mallet , Philip Carteret of the Isle of Guernsey , Francis Cradock , a merchant , Henry Ford , Ma- jor Venner , Thomas Marriet of ...
... matters , and who had more than once turned the council - board of Oli- ver Cromwell ; Michael Mallet , Philip Carteret of the Isle of Guernsey , Francis Cradock , a merchant , Henry Ford , Ma- jor Venner , Thomas Marriet of ...
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... matters very different from your transactions there : that it would be best for you , presently to divest yourself of the character of a public minister ; to dismiss all your train ; and to retire into some safe place , not very near ...
... matters very different from your transactions there : that it would be best for you , presently to divest yourself of the character of a public minister ; to dismiss all your train ; and to retire into some safe place , not very near ...
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... matter that offered itself to my hands on this occasion . I never received any particular advantage by that government , nor so much as subscribed the engagement ; and therefore I thought I might with the greater freedom and ingenuity ...
... matter that offered itself to my hands on this occasion . I never received any particular advantage by that government , nor so much as subscribed the engagement ; and therefore I thought I might with the greater freedom and ingenuity ...
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... matter , with spe- cimens of some of the elegant and very scarce pattern - pieces before mentioned , may be seen in " the works of Thomas Simon , " published , London , 1753 , in quarto , by that ingenious , diligent , faithful English ...
... matter , with spe- cimens of some of the elegant and very scarce pattern - pieces before mentioned , may be seen in " the works of Thomas Simon , " published , London , 1753 , in quarto , by that ingenious , diligent , faithful English ...
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Page 395 - But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 60 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done.
Page 395 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Page 95 - ... ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?
Page 81 - ... in witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.
Page 63 - OF a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew, Twelve years complete he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while...
Page 73 - Then amidst the Hymns, and Hallelujahs of Saints some one may perhaps be heard offering at high strains in new and lofty Measures to sing and celebrate thy divine Mercies, and marvellous Judgments in this Land throughout all Ages ; whereby this great and Warlike Nation instructed and inured to the fervent and continual practice of Truth and Righteousness, and casting far from her the rags of her old vices, may press on hard to that high and happy emulation to be found the...
Page 98 - About the year 1648, 1649, some of our company being removed to Oxford (first Dr. Wilkins, then I, and soon after Dr. Goddard) our company divided. Those in London continued to meet there as before (and we with them, when we had occasion to be there), and those of us at Oxford, with Dr. Ward (since Bishop of Salisbury), Dr. Ralph Bathurst (now President of Trinity College- in Oxford), Dr. Petty (since Sir William Petty), Dr. Willis (then an eminent physician in Oxford), and divers others, continued...
Page 274 - JefFeries came to the king at Windsor, soon after this trial, the king took a ring of good value from his finger, and gave it him for these services : the ring upon that was called his blood-stone.
Page 41 - Romans, is become the happy seat of liberty, plenty, and letters; flourishing in all the arts and refinements of civil life ; yet running perhaps the same course which Rome...