Diary of Thomas Burton, Esq., Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659: Now First Published from the Original Autograph Manuscript. With an Introduction, Containing an Account of the Parliament of 1654; from the Journal of Guibon Goddard, Esq. M.P., Also Now First Printed, Volume 3Henry Colburn, 1828 - Great Britain |
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... offered to the person of a parti- cular member of the House , which happened to be my brother Bish , who , being chosen with one Mr. Turgis , for the borough of Gatton , in Surrey , one Audley , who had been a kind of Major , had stood ...
... offered to the person of a parti- cular member of the House , which happened to be my brother Bish , who , being chosen with one Mr. Turgis , for the borough of Gatton , in Surrey , one Audley , who had been a kind of Major , had stood ...
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... offered to put the question upon himself . Sir Arthur Haslerigge . I would not have it upon your books that any such question was propounded to the Speaker of the House of Commons , or to this House of Parliament . I will offend nobody ...
... offered to put the question upon himself . Sir Arthur Haslerigge . I would not have it upon your books that any such question was propounded to the Speaker of the House of Commons , or to this House of Parliament . I will offend nobody ...
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... offered now . The more I hear of " In a full House Mr. Secretary very suddenly and abruptly stood up and told us that he confessed that the forms of the House were first necessary to be settled ; but that now it was time to speak of ...
... offered now . The more I hear of " In a full House Mr. Secretary very suddenly and abruptly stood up and told us that he confessed that the forms of the House were first necessary to be settled ; but that now it was time to speak of ...
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... offered . I waited for reasons against it . I went home , rejoicing that the members of Scotland and Ireland were received hither so unanimously . I take it for granted they are admitted into oneness with us . I look it as a return of ...
... offered . I waited for reasons against it . I went home , rejoicing that the members of Scotland and Ireland were received hither so unanimously . I take it for granted they are admitted into oneness with us . I look it as a return of ...
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... offered , but it is not for your service to be too hasty . I de- sire that we may all study moderation . It was ordered to be read on Monday next , † without a question . The House rose at one . * See supra , p . 26 . + " A Bill ...
... offered , but it is not for your service to be too hasty . I de- sire that we may all study moderation . It was ordered to be read on Monday next , † without a question . The House rose at one . * See supra , p . 26 . + " A Bill ...
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Page 128 - Mars the other ; Till conqueror Death discover them scarce men, Rolling in brutish vices and deform'd, Violent or shameful death their due reward. But if there be in glory aught of good, It may by means far different be attain'd, Without ambition, war, or violence ; By deeds of peace, by wisdom eminent, By patience, temperance...
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Page 514 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home in the spacious circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope, and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
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Page 540 - ... a kind of still roar or loud whisper. It is the great exchange of all discourse, and no business whatsoever but is here stirring and a-foot. It is the synod of all pates politick, jointed and laid together in most serious posture, and they are not half so busy at the parliament.
Page 514 - Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion (with this, over and above, of being a Christian) might do for mine : not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that ; but content with these British islands as my world, whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians (as some say) made their small deeds great and renowned by their eloquent writers, England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics.
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