The History of England: As Well Ecclesiastical as Civil, Volym 14

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James and John Knapton, 1731
 

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Sida 315 - France, rather than a king that ought to have watched over and prevented the progress they made, as the greatest of all the mischiefs that could happen to him or to his people. They that judged the most favourably of this, thought it was done out of revenge to the Dutch, that, with the...
Sida 312 - So that words or promises went very easily from him. And he had so ill an opinion of mankind, that he thought the great art of living and governing was, to manage all things and all persons with a depth of craft and dissimulation.
Sida 3 - Carthago,' that government was to be brought down ; and therefore the king may well say to you, it is your war.
Sida 3 - Plymouth, and Hull were to be given into the French hands for caution. The next day news came that France and Holland were agreed. Then the obloquy was turned from treachery to folly : the...
Sida 313 - He went over these in a very graceful manner, but so often and so copiously, that all those who had been long accustomed to them grew weary of them; and when he entered on those stories, they usually withdrew ; so that he often began them in a full audience, and before he had done, there were not above four or five persons left about him : which drew a severe jest from Wilmot Earl of Rochester.
Sida 305 - He expressed his kindness to him and that he now delivered all over to him with great joy. He recommended Lady Portsmouth over and over again to him. He said he had always loved her, and he loved her now to the last ; and besought the duke, in as melting words as he could fetch out, to be very kind to her and to her son.
Sida 5 - neither the Bankers, nor they, have reafon to " complain, if you now take them into your Care, " and they have paid them what was due to them, " when the Stop was made, with Six per Cent. Inte
Sida 314 - At Rome, I saw one of the last statues made for Tiberius, after he had lost his teeth. But, bating the alteration which that made, it was so like King Charles, that Prince Borghese and Signior Dominico, to whom it belonged, did agree with me in thinking that it looked like a statue made for him.
Sida 307 - ... hole that went to a drain, in the mouth of which a grate lay, these were seen lying on the grate many days after. His funeral was very mean. He did not lie in state : no mournings were given ; and the expense of it was not equal to what an ordinary nobleman's funeral will riso to.
Sida 304 - He pressed the king six or seven times to receive the sacrament. But the king always declined it, saying he was very weak. A table with the elements upon it ready to be...

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