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... dangerous en- croachments on the prerogatives of the sovereign . They obtained the power of supreme jurisdiction both civil and criminal within their own territo- ries , the right of coining money , together with the privilege of ...
... dangerous en- croachments on the prerogatives of the sovereign . They obtained the power of supreme jurisdiction both civil and criminal within their own territo- ries , the right of coining money , together with the privilege of ...
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... danger , thought him the only man fit to be trusted with their lives and fortunes : or to have the command of a difficult and desperate war : and , in truth , he twice delivered them from the most desperate , with which they had been ...
... danger , thought him the only man fit to be trusted with their lives and fortunes : or to have the command of a difficult and desperate war : and , in truth , he twice delivered them from the most desperate , with which they had been ...
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... dangerous at home ; an implacable enemy to the nobles , ever seeking oc casions to mortify them , and ready to sacrifice the republic , which he had saved , to his ambition and revenge . After a life spent in the perpetual toils of ...
... dangerous at home ; an implacable enemy to the nobles , ever seeking oc casions to mortify them , and ready to sacrifice the republic , which he had saved , to his ambition and revenge . After a life spent in the perpetual toils of ...
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... danger in his army , by the forgery of auspices and divine admonitions ; for which end , he carried always about with him a little statue of Apollo , taken from the temple of Delphi ; and whenever he had resolved to give battle , used ...
... danger in his army , by the forgery of auspices and divine admonitions ; for which end , he carried always about with him a little statue of Apollo , taken from the temple of Delphi ; and whenever he had resolved to give battle , used ...
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... dangers , when they ministered to his glory . For he thought tyranny , as Cicero says , the greatest of goddesses ; and had frequently in his mouth a verse of Euripides , which expressed the image of his soul , that if right and justice ...
... dangers , when they ministered to his glory . For he thought tyranny , as Cicero says , the greatest of goddesses ; and had frequently in his mouth a verse of Euripides , which expressed the image of his soul , that if right and justice ...
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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.