The Harleian Miscellany:: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print, Volume 8John White, and John Murray, Fleet-Street; and John Harding, St. James's-Street., 1810 - Great Britain |
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... pounds kept at home , which now every year goes out of the kingdom for linnen , whereby our wealth becomes a prey to other nations . 3 . Much land improved in every county to great advantage of landlord and tenant . Humbly offered to ...
... pounds kept at home , which now every year goes out of the kingdom for linnen , whereby our wealth becomes a prey to other nations . 3 . Much land improved in every county to great advantage of landlord and tenant . Humbly offered to ...
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... pounds , that hath been under consideration of the parlia- ment , which , if not paid , will be the ruin of many thousands of poor families , who advanced the same for his majesty's service , and it was all employed for bringing him ...
... pounds , that hath been under consideration of the parlia- ment , which , if not paid , will be the ruin of many thousands of poor families , who advanced the same for his majesty's service , and it was all employed for bringing him ...
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... pounds . 2. That all the nobility and gentry of England , who have estates in the country , and are not obliged to attend on his majesty by reason of their offices , be enjoined , with their families , to live where their estates do lie ...
... pounds . 2. That all the nobility and gentry of England , who have estates in the country , and are not obliged to attend on his majesty by reason of their offices , be enjoined , with their families , to live where their estates do lie ...
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... pounds per annum arise to the publick . 4. That an act for a general naturalising of all foreign Frotestants be passed , and an assurance of liberty of conscience given to all that shall come over into England , and place themselves and ...
... pounds per annum arise to the publick . 4. That an act for a general naturalising of all foreign Frotestants be passed , and an assurance of liberty of conscience given to all that shall come over into England , and place themselves and ...
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... pounds a - piece stocks , employed in the country , might have made each of them a good tenant , for a farm of one or two hundred pounds per annum ; which farms , by their remov . ing to London , are thrown into the landlords ' hands ...
... pounds a - piece stocks , employed in the country , might have made each of them a good tenant , for a farm of one or two hundred pounds per annum ; which farms , by their remov . ing to London , are thrown into the landlords ' hands ...
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Page 319 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 315 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Page 297 - The punishing of wits enhances their authority, saith the Viscount St. Albans, and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth that flies up in the faces of them who seek to tread it out.
Page 293 - ... honesty of one who hath but a common repute in learning, and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner, lest he should drop a schism, or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.
Page ix - And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Page 154 - I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this Parliament : for GOD and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement, but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they shall receive a terrible blow this Parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them.
Page 42 - Is it for a man's health to travel with tired jades, to be laid fast in the foul ways, and forced to wade up to the knees in mire; afterwards sit in the cold, till teams of horses can be sent to pull the coach out...
Page 154 - I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm : for the danger is past, as soon as you have burned the letter. And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it, unto whose holy protection I commend you*.
Page 322 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you : but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 547 - Ireland, calling the Protestants by that title. The good woman of the house being well affected to the Protestant religion, and also having a brother, named John Edmonds, of the same, then a citizen in Dublin, was much troubled at the doctor's words ; but, watching her convenient time...