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... took the city of Rome by ftorm , it was faved from pillage on the inhabitants promifing to pay to their conquerors fo many thoufand pounds weight of gold . Brennus fate in a chair of state in the Capitol , with a pair of scales in his ...
... took the city of Rome by ftorm , it was faved from pillage on the inhabitants promifing to pay to their conquerors fo many thoufand pounds weight of gold . Brennus fate in a chair of state in the Capitol , with a pair of scales in his ...
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... took place in the brains of Vol- taire and D'Alembert ( fee their Letters ) , which was to have been realized by Frederic the Second , king of Pruffia * , who was to have * A republic of modern deifts and modern philofo- " phers ...
... took place in the brains of Vol- taire and D'Alembert ( fee their Letters ) , which was to have been realized by Frederic the Second , king of Pruffia * , who was to have * A republic of modern deifts and modern philofo- " phers ...
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... took them from their fides , and " laid them upon the altars of oraifons ; " which now , through over long reft , are grown rufty , and their edges are become " too dull for the field . For , " added he , 66 66 the maintenance of ...
... took them from their fides , and " laid them upon the altars of oraifons ; " which now , through over long reft , are grown rufty , and their edges are become " too dull for the field . For , " added he , 66 66 the maintenance of ...
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... took up arms against their Sovereign . After the expulfion of the Jefuits from France , the Benedictines were en- trufted with the management of those schools which they had governed , and are fuppofed to have contributed not a little ...
... took up arms against their Sovereign . After the expulfion of the Jefuits from France , the Benedictines were en- trufted with the management of those schools which they had governed , and are fuppofed to have contributed not a little ...
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... took its name . Abbe Vally fays , " That the honour of this Order is to have sc obferved , for fix hundred years , its inftitutions " with fuch exactnefs , that it has never had " occafion for any reform . " - " It hath least of 66 all ...
... took its name . Abbe Vally fays , " That the honour of this Order is to have sc obferved , for fix hundred years , its inftitutions " with fuch exactnefs , that it has never had " occafion for any reform . " - " It hath least of 66 all ...
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Page 4 - And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Page 99 - After dinner, the king called for Latimer, and, with a stern countenance, asked him, how he durst be so bold as to preach in this manner. He, falling on his knees, replied, that his duty to his God and to his prince had enforced him thereunto, and that he had merely discharged his duty and his conscience in what he had spoken, and that his life was in his majesty's hands.
Page 33 - What honour shall it be to us, or you, to break this monument, and to pull out of the ground the bones of HIM, whom, in his life...
Page 98 - Sabbath, and to make an apology for the offence he had given. After reading his text, the bishop thus began his sermon : — " Hugh Latimer, dost thou know before whom thou art this day to speak? To the high and mighty monarch, the king's most excellent majesty, who can take away thy life if thou offendest ; therefore, take heed that thou speakest not a word that may...
Page 55 - But if he had written everything in the most unexceptionable manner, I had no inclination to die for the sake of truth. Every man hath not the courage requisite to make a martyr ; and I am afraid that if I were put to the trial I should imitate St. Peter.
Page 207 - ... by his young friends for not living in the way they did (which would have completely put a...
Page 287 - Secute of all, but that alone — The noble tenants of the place My fears alarm, my quiet chase ; •Their piety without pretence, Their...
Page 199 - an opinion commonly received, that it is a foolifh thing to bring up a child at his- mother's-)- apron-firing. Her natural affeclion (however wife (lie may be) renders her too tender of her fon, and makes her cocker him too much. She is incapable of correcting his faults, and cannot bearto fee him fed hardly, and by chance, as he ought to be.