History of the Commonwealth of England: To the death of Charles I |
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Page 154 - Army, hired to serve any Arbitrary Power of a State, but called forth and conjured by the several Declarations of Parliament, to the defence of our own and the People's just Rights and Liberties.
Page 669 - I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it,' I replied, 'You may take your own course ; I cannot stop you ; but I will keep myself clean from having any hand in this business,' and immediately went out of the room and never returned.
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Page 404 - ... we were to search all that went in and out there ; but as he looked like an honest man, we would only search his saddle and so dismiss him. Upon that, we ungirt the saddle, and carried it into the stall, where we had been drinking, and left the...
Page 403 - ... clock that night, to the Blue Boar Inn in Holborn ; for there he was to take horse, and go to Dover with it. This messenger knew nothing of the letter in the saddle, but some persons in Dover did.
Page 403 - But while we were busied in these thoughts, there came a letter from one of our spies, who was of the King's bedchamber, which acquainted us, that on that day our final doom was decreed ; that he could not possibly tell what it was, but we might find it out if we could intercept a letter sent from the King to the Queen, wherein he declared what he would do.
Page 615 - I cannot depart, no, not in show — will do the same : and, to deal freely with you, the great concession I made this day — the Church, militia, and Ireland — was made merely in order to my escape, of which if I had not hope, I would not have done...
Page 160 - But there are other judges who think I ought not to have translated Chaucer into English, out of a quite contrary notion: they suppose there is a certain veneration due to his old language, and that it is little less than profanation and sacrilege to alter it.
Page 160 - ... that it is little less than profanation and sacrilege to alter it. They are farther of opinion, that somewhat of his good sense will suffer in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will infallibly be lost, which appear with more grace in their old habit.
Page 404 - ... then ripping up one of the skirts of the saddle, we there found the letter of which we had been informed ; and having got it into our own hands, we delivered the saddle again to the man, telling him he was an honest man and bid him go about his business. The man, not knowing what had been done, went away to Dover.