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... executioners of the King , if they were discoverable , should be secured , with specification on chance of a certain person named Matthew , who had boasted of being one of them and of having received £ 300 for the work ; also that ...
... executioners of the King , if they were discoverable , should be secured , with specification on chance of a certain person named Matthew , who had boasted of being one of them and of having received £ 300 for the work ; also that ...
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... executioners " who were upon the scaffold in a disguise should be in the same extreme class . About these two the House had been making every inquiry . One hears no more of the person called Matthew , suspected on the 14th of May ; but ...
... executioners " who were upon the scaffold in a disguise should be in the same extreme class . About these two the House had been making every inquiry . One hears no more of the person called Matthew , suspected on the 14th of May ; but ...
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... executioners , if they could be found out , to the same gibbet with the seven selected Regicide Judges themselves , might they not now enlarge their definition of the Regicides by bringing in some of those of the Judges who , though not ...
... executioners , if they could be found out , to the same gibbet with the seven selected Regicide Judges themselves , might they not now enlarge their definition of the Regicides by bringing in some of those of the Judges who , though not ...
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... executioners , whoever they were . Of these eighty - four the votes had been that four , who were dead , should be pun- ished by the most absolute posthumous attainder , twelve of the living should be punished capitally ( seven of the ...
... executioners , whoever they were . Of these eighty - four the votes had been that four , who were dead , should be pun- ished by the most absolute posthumous attainder , twelve of the living should be punished capitally ( seven of the ...
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... executioners ) , sixty - two should stand excepted in every respect not capital ( viz . forty - two of the judges yet living , with nineteen of the dead judges and one of the court- officers ) , one should have his case farther ...
... executioners ) , sixty - two should stand excepted in every respect not capital ( viz . forty - two of the judges yet living , with nineteen of the dead judges and one of the court- officers ) , one should have his case farther ...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ..., Volume 6 David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1880 |
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Act of Uniformity Adrian Scroope ætat Annesley Axtell Baron Baxter bishops Breda brought Burnet called capital Chancellor Charles chief Church of England Clarendon clergy Colonel Commons Journals Convention Parliament Court Covenant Cromwell Cromwell's Davenant Davenant's dead death death-warrant Declaration Defensio Dryden Duke of York Dutch Earl ecclesiastical English Episcopacy excepted execution executioners favour Hacker hangman Hardress Waller Harrison hath Henry Henry Marten Hewlet Hist Hobbes honour House Hugh Peters Hyde Indemnity Bill Ireland Irish John Goodwin JOHN MILTON Journals of dates July June King King's Lady Lady Castlemaine Lambert living London Lord Majesty Majesty's Milton ministers Monk pamphlet Parl Pepys persons poem Presbyterians present Privy Council proclamation Protestant Prynne published Regicide Judges Regicides Restoration Richard Robert Roman Catholic Royal Royalist Salmasius says Scotland Scottish Scroope sentence session Thomas tion treason trial twenty vote Westminster Whitehall William
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Page 785 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 664 - Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 342 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 441 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Page 826 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom. All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 653 - New heavens, new earth, ages of endless date, Founded in righteousness, and peace, and love ; To bring forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss.
Page 705 - Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 443 - DESCEND from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing!
Page 170 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 671 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.