The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England: Being a Faithful Account of All the Most Remarkable Transactions in Parliament, from the Earliest Times. Collected from the Journals of Both Houses, the Records, Original Manuscripts, Scarce Speeches, and Tracts; All Compared Withthe Several Contemporary Writers, and Connected, Throughout, with the History of the Times. By Several Hands...

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Page 431 - It will be left as a Cottage in a Vine-Yard ; as a Lodge in a Garden of Cucumbers ; as a befieged City, when all the Defences are gone : It will
Page 203 - with greater Reafon, Judgment» and Temper ; and with a better Grace in all his Words and Geftures, than this great and excellent Perfon did ; and he moved the Hearts of all his Auditors, fome few excepted, toRemorfe and Pity.
Page 76 - and PowderingTub; they fhare with the Butler in his Box, they have marked and fealed us from Head to Foot. Mr. Speaker, they will not bate us a Pin : We may not buy our own Cloaths without their Brokage. Thefe are the Leeches that have
Page 339 - yet it is as true, that Youth, which is the Seafon when Learning is gotten, is not without Ambition ; nor will ever take Pains to excel in any Thing, when there is not fome Hope of excelling others in Reward and Dignity. ' There are two Reafons chiefly alledged
Page 202 - without being more ambitious to be more learned in the Art of Killing, than our Forefathers. * It is now full 240 Years fince any Man was touch'd for this alledged Crime, to this Height, before myfelf. Let us not awaken thefe
Page 458 - containing in them divers Matters contrary to the King's Prerogative, to the Fundamental Laws and Statutes of the Realm, to the Rights of Parliament, to the Property and Liberty of the
Page 34 - do contain in them many Matters contrary to the King's Prerogative, to the fundamental Laws and Statutes of this Realm, to the Right of Parliaments, to the Property and Liberty of the
Page 333 - we muft do, if we defirea perfedt Reformation and Growth of our Religion, or Good to our Civil State : For the whole Fabrick of this Building is fo rotten and corrupt, from the very Foundation of it to the Top, that if we pull it not down now, it will fall about the Ears of all
Page 370 - be proceeded upon the next Morning.' It was a very long Debate the next Morning, after the Speaker had left the Chair, who Ihould be in the Chair for the Committee ; they who wifh'd well to the Bill having refolved to put Mr. Hyde into the Chair, that he might not give them Trouble by frequent
Page 127 - to know truly what is Mercy : I fay to know what is Mercy ; for there is the Point, Mr. Speaker : I have heard of foolifh Pity, foolifh Pity : Do we not all know the Effefts of it ? And I have met with this Epithet to Mercy, Crudelis Mifericordia

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