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... court of Louis XIV . Before this time , the Italians called all the peo- ple on this side the Alps by the name of Barbarians . It must be owned that the French , in some degree , deserved this reproachful epithet . Our forefathers ...
... court of Louis XIV . Before this time , the Italians called all the peo- ple on this side the Alps by the name of Barbarians . It must be owned that the French , in some degree , deserved this reproachful epithet . Our forefathers ...
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... court governed by eunuchs and mercenary Greeks ? all whose politics turned , not on the honour of the king , but the establishment of their own power ; which was likely to be eclipsed by the admission of Pompey . How happy had it been ...
... court governed by eunuchs and mercenary Greeks ? all whose politics turned , not on the honour of the king , but the establishment of their own power ; which was likely to be eclipsed by the admission of Pompey . How happy had it been ...
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... court , and the seductions of sovereign power ! Had he kept his oaths to his people as well as he did his marriage vow , he would have been the best of kings ; but he indulged other pas- sions of a worse nature , and infinitely more ...
... court , and the seductions of sovereign power ! Had he kept his oaths to his people as well as he did his marriage vow , he would have been the best of kings ; but he indulged other pas- sions of a worse nature , and infinitely more ...
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... courts of justice were dens of thieves , and when almost every man in authority , or in office , used his power to ... court of exchequer , which was entirely Norman ; by forfeitures wrongfully taken ; and , lastly , by arbitrary and ...
... courts of justice were dens of thieves , and when almost every man in authority , or in office , used his power to ... court of exchequer , which was entirely Norman ; by forfeitures wrongfully taken ; and , lastly , by arbitrary and ...
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... court of Rome provoked him to violence ; the danger of a revolt from his superstitious subjects seemed to require the most extreme severity . But it must at the same time be acknowledged , that his situation tended to throw an ...
... court of Rome provoked him to violence ; the danger of a revolt from his superstitious subjects seemed to require the most extreme severity . But it must at the same time be acknowledged , that his situation tended to throw an ...
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Page 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 77 - I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think...
Page 257 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Page 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 241 - Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Page 173 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Page 141 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Page 256 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Page 96 - The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and of bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable, because more natural ; and which, according to the different views in which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.