The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Revolution in 1688, Volume 9

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Christie & Son; Baldwin & Company; Sharpe & Son; Akerman; Smith & Company ... [and 40 others], 1819 - Great Britain
 

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Page 342 - ... to the danger of a furious civil war, and even to the ruin and ignominy of a foreign conquest.
Page 111 - I know very well that you are at the bottom of this late attempt upon my father. But I give you warning, if...
Page 160 - I, AB, do declare, that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king : and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 251 - ... appeared against the prisoners. This man had been steward to Lord Aston, and, though poor, possessed a character somewhat more reputable than the other two: but his account of the intended massacres and assassinations was equally monstrous and incredible. He even asserted, that two hundred thousand Papists in England were ready to take arms. The prisoners proved by sixteen witnesses from St. Omers, students, and most of them young men of family, that...
Page 87 - Farewell, sun, moon, and stars ; farewell, world and time ; farewell, weak and frail body ! Welcome, eternity ; welcome, angels and saints ; welcome, Saviour of the world; and welcome, God,. the Judge of all!
Page 119 - The Dutch were long at a loss what to make of this article ; till it was discovered that a portrait of Cornelius de Wit, brother to the pensionary, painted by order of certain magistrates of Dort, and hung up in a chamber of the town-house, had given occasion to the complaint.
Page 226 - I would not have," said a noble peer in the debate on this bill, " so much as a popish man or a " popish woman to remain here; not so much as a " popish dog or a popish bitch ; not so much as a " popish cat to pur or mew about the king.
Page 106 - In order to fix him in the French interests, he resolved to bind him by the ties of pleasure, the only ones which with him were irresistible; and he made him a present of a French mistress, by whose means he hoped for the future to govern him.
Page 216 - It is certain, that the restless and enterprising spirit of the catholic church, particularly of the Jesuits, merits attention, and is in some degree dangerous to every other communion : such zeal of proselytism actuates that sect, that its missionaries have penetrated into every nation of the globe ; and, in one sense, there is a popish plot perpetually carrying on against all states, protestant, pagan, and Mahometan...
Page 222 - That the lords and commons are of opinion, that there hath been, and still is, a damnable and hellish plot, contrived and carried on by the Popish recusants, for assassinating the king, for subverting the government, and for rooting out and destroying the Protestant religion.

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