A Select Collection of Original Letters: Written by the Most Eminent Persons, on Various Entertaining Subjects, and on Many Important Occasions from the Reign of Henry the Eighth, to the Present Time : in Two Volumes, Band 1J. and J. Rivington and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755 |
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... tion ; all burdened with the Weight of their Con- fcience ; Men of great Numbers , of great Riches , ( because the Affairs of State have not lain on them ) of united Minds ( as all Men that deem themselves . oppreffed , naturally are ) ...
... tion ; all burdened with the Weight of their Con- fcience ; Men of great Numbers , of great Riches , ( because the Affairs of State have not lain on them ) of united Minds ( as all Men that deem themselves . oppreffed , naturally are ) ...
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... tion as is poffible ; befides the French Difpofition , and his own Education , his inconftant Attempt a- gainst his Brother , his thrufting himself into the Low Country Matters , his fometime seeking the King of Spain's Daughter ...
... tion as is poffible ; befides the French Difpofition , and his own Education , his inconftant Attempt a- gainst his Brother , his thrufting himself into the Low Country Matters , his fometime seeking the King of Spain's Daughter ...
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... tion of the Holy Land . It united that invincible Henry V. and that good Duke of Burgundy ; the one defiring to win the Crown of France from the Dauphin , the other , defiring to revenge his Fa- ther's Murder upon the Dauphin , which ...
... tion of the Holy Land . It united that invincible Henry V. and that good Duke of Burgundy ; the one defiring to win the Crown of France from the Dauphin , the other , defiring to revenge his Fa- ther's Murder upon the Dauphin , which ...
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... tion , if one fhould have told me , on the contrary Side , that the greatest Princes of the World fhould : envy the State of fome poor deformed Pilgrim .. What is there either within you , or without you ,. that can poffibly fall into ...
... tion , if one fhould have told me , on the contrary Side , that the greatest Princes of the World fhould : envy the State of fome poor deformed Pilgrim .. What is there either within you , or without you ,. that can poffibly fall into ...
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... tion , fhall be fettled upon you ; I do not fee , but you may think your private Fortunes eftablished ; and therefore it is now time that you should refer your Actions to the Good of your Sovereign and your Country . It is the Life of ...
... tion , fhall be fettled upon you ; I do not fee , but you may think your private Fortunes eftablished ; and therefore it is now time that you should refer your Actions to the Good of your Sovereign and your Country . It is the Life of ...
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Seite 8 - Party, for whose sake I am now as I am, whose Name I could some good while since have pointed unto: Your Grace being not ignorant of my Suspicion therein.
Seite 50 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Seite 60 - ... enjoy under any other establishment. You see, sir, the doctrines that are lately come into the world, and how far the phrase has obtained of calling your royal father, God's vicegerent ; which ill men have turned both to the dishonour of God, and the impeachment of his majesty's goodness. They adjoin vicegerency to the idea of being all-powerful, and not to that of being all-good.
Seite 189 - Honours and that Fortune, which a distempered Time hath deprived you of together with the Life of your Father...
Seite 187 - Be sure you give all Respect to my wife, that hath ever had a great Love unto you and therefore will be well becoming you. Never be awanting in your Love and Care to your Sisters, but let them ever be most dear unto you : For, this will give others cause to esteem and respect you for it, and is a Duty that you owe them in the Memory of your excellent Mother and myself...
Seite 265 - I have lived, and will live no longer than they can preserve me. I have in my life been guilty of many follies ; but, as I think, of no meanness.
Seite 59 - I therefore trust, sir, that you will not be the first that shall kill us outright, cut down the tree with the fruit, and undergo the curse of them that enter the fields of the fatherless.
Seite 50 - ... worthy subject; not doubting but, by your obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.
Seite 38 - Master's service, and to our particular better understanding one of another. This letter, if it shall be answered by you in deed and not in word, I suppose it will not be worse for us both ; else it is but a few lines lost, which for a much smaller matter I would have adventured.
Seite 9 - But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander, must bring you the...