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... commons at a blow ) was found on the spot ere the dreadful deed was executed ; the plot having been betrayed enigmatically to lord Mounteagle by a friend . Severer laws against the Catholics , and the death of its contrivers , was the ...
... commons at a blow ) was found on the spot ere the dreadful deed was executed ; the plot having been betrayed enigmatically to lord Mounteagle by a friend . Severer laws against the Catholics , and the death of its contrivers , was the ...
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... commons . Horrible and desperate as was this plot , he soon found a few spirits as implacable and furious as his own to join in it . The first person to whom he opened his design , was Thomas Winter , a gentleman of Worcestershire , who ...
... commons . Horrible and desperate as was this plot , he soon found a few spirits as implacable and furious as his own to join in it . The first person to whom he opened his design , was Thomas Winter , a gentleman of Worcestershire , who ...
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... commons , from whom Elizabeth herself , with all her thrift and economy , had always found it difficult to get any money , responded to the appeal by a vote of two subsidies only , i.e. , £ 112,000 . This seems almost a mockery when we ...
... commons , from whom Elizabeth herself , with all her thrift and economy , had always found it difficult to get any money , responded to the appeal by a vote of two subsidies only , i.e. , £ 112,000 . This seems almost a mockery when we ...
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... commons that the outlay for the war was £ 700,000 per annum , that the fleet and the defence of Ireland required £ 400,000 ; that his father's debts on account of the war amounted to £ 300,000 , and that he had spent nearly all his own ...
... commons that the outlay for the war was £ 700,000 per annum , that the fleet and the defence of Ireland required £ 400,000 ; that his father's debts on account of the war amounted to £ 300,000 , and that he had spent nearly all his own ...
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... commons instantly summoned before them the officers of the custom - house to answer for having scized the goods of the merchants who had refused to pay tonnage and poundage when not sanctioned by themselves . The barons of the Exchequer ...
... commons instantly summoned before them the officers of the custom - house to answer for having scized the goods of the merchants who had refused to pay tonnage and poundage when not sanctioned by themselves . The barons of the Exchequer ...
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Popular passages
Page 416 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Page 30 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 523 - O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Page 408 - Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland ; or as they did enjoy in the reign of King Charles the Second ; and their Majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a Parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 133 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are : for blood it defileth the land : and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 191 - Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in Covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee, for Thy People. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service...
Page 86 - Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
Page 370 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way : because we had spoken unto the king, saying, " The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him ; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Page 230 - Paul's now a sad ruin, and that beautiful portico (for structure comparable to any in Europe, as not long before repaired by the late king) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing remaining entire but the inscription in the architrave, showing by whom it was built, which had not one letter of it defaced.
Page 177 - It's you that have forced me to this, for I have -sought the Lord night and day, that he would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.