Some Memorials of John Hampden: His Party and His Times

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Chapman and Hall, 1854 - 384페이지
 

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25 페이지 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
223 페이지 - May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and humbly beg your Majesty's pardon, that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your Majesty is pleased to demand of me.
xliii 페이지 - ... the conflicting interests of nations ; whatever could promote peace, increase knowledge, extend commerce, diminish crime, and encourage industry; whatever could exalt human character, and could enlarge human understanding ; struck at once at the heart of your father, and roused all his faculties. I have seen him in a moment when this spirit came upon him — like a great ship of war — cut his cable, and spread his enormous canvass, and launch into a wide sea of reasoning eloquence.
25 페이지 - ... every member of the house hath, and of right ought to have, freedom of speech, to propound, treat, reason, and bring to conclusion the same...
xlii 페이지 - Review, the state of England at the period when that journal began should be had in remembrance. The Catholics were not emancipated. The Corporation and Test Acts were unrepealed. The...
132 페이지 - That all was well: and that it must be worse, before it could be better; and that this parliament would never have done what was necessary to be done;" as indeed it would not, what he and his friends thought necessary.
340 페이지 - In this treaty the king manifested his great parts and abilities, strength of reason and quickness of apprehension, with much patience in hearing what was objected against him; wherein he allowed all freedom and would himself sum up the arguments, and give a most clear judgment upon them. His unhappiness was, that he had a better opinion of others...
216 페이지 - We had sheathed our swords in each other's bowels,' says an eyewitness, ' had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden, by a short speech, prevented it.
46 페이지 - Cosin for the most true patron of the clergy and of scholars ; masters belabour their fellows ; Dr. Maw sends for his, one by one, to persuade them — some, twice over. On Thursday morning (the day appointed for the election) he makes a large speech in the college chapel, that they would come off unanimously.
359 페이지 - His head bending down, and his hands resting on his horse's neck, he was seen riding off the field before the action was done, — ' a thing/ says Lord Clarendon, ' he never used to ' do, and from which it was concluded he was hurt.

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