Memoirs of the Secret Services of John Macky, Esq., During the Reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George I.: Including, Also, the True Secret History of the Rise, Promotions, &c. of the English and Scots Nobility, Officers, Civil, Military, Naval, and Other Persons of Distinction, from the Revolution, in Their Respective Characters at Large |
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Page 207 - the Conftitution in the Parliament of Scotland. He is a Gentleman fteady in his Principles, of nice Honour, with abundance of Learning ; brave as the Sword he wears,, and bold as a Lion. A
Page xiv - in their Writings. Words are to be carried no farther than the Defign upon which they were written will lead them to; fo that our Lord being in that Place to ftrike out Divorces fo explicitly, we muft not, by a Confequence, condemn POLYGAMY, fince it feems not to have fallen within the Scope of what our Lord does there
Page 135 - very near being So in England. He is a Man of Intrigue, but very muddy in his Conceptions, and not quickly understood in any Thing,
Page xii - of the Patriarchs; David's Wives (and Store of them he had) are termed by the Prophet, God's Gift to him: Yea, Polygamy was made, in fome Cafes, a Duty by Mofes's Law; when any died without
Page xi - Mankind; and the Formality of doing it by Churchmen, is only a fupervenient Benediction, or pompous folemnizing of it; and therefore the Nature of Marriage, and not any Forms ufed in the Celebration of it, is to be
Page 125 - him all the Reign of King William^ yet made a good Figure. He is a very cloudy-looked Man, fat, of middle Stature, about fifty Years
Page 95 - King William's Reign, and doth not make any great Figure in this; but, his Son, Mr. Bridges * does, being a Member of the
Page 86 - which he now glories in more, than he was formerly extravagant ; he was married when very young, to a Niece of my Lord Macclesfield , who dying without
Page 150 - Gentlemen in the Army, with a Head fitted for the Cabinet, as well as the Camp ; is very
Page 35 - a good common Lawyer, a flow Chancellor, and no Civilian. Chance more than Choice brought him the Seals: The Lords Chief