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... Anecdotes , and a poetical Appendix . 18mo . 2s . 6d . boards . A token of respect to the faithful consort of our revered Sovereign , the affectionate mother of his Royal offspring , and the vigilant guardian of the morals of the Court ...
... Anecdotes , and a poetical Appendix . 18mo . 2s . 6d . boards . A token of respect to the faithful consort of our revered Sovereign , the affectionate mother of his Royal offspring , and the vigilant guardian of the morals of the Court ...
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... Sovereign is so connected with his reign , that it will necessarily refer to most of the great events which distinguished it , and in which his Majesty took an active part . In selecting and arranging the numerous Anecdotes , which form A ...
... Sovereign is so connected with his reign , that it will necessarily refer to most of the great events which distinguished it , and in which his Majesty took an active part . In selecting and arranging the numerous Anecdotes , which form A ...
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Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher.) In selecting and arranging the numerous Anecdotes , which form the chain of facts of which this narrative is composed , the greatest care has been taken to insert only the most authentic and the ...
Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher.) In selecting and arranging the numerous Anecdotes , which form the chain of facts of which this narrative is composed , the greatest care has been taken to insert only the most authentic and the ...
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... he became the patron of literature and the arts , ( for which George II . pretended to no kind of relish , ) and appears to have been a friend both to civil and re- nour . ligious liberty . By an anecdote , preserved on good. B 3 5.
... he became the patron of literature and the arts , ( for which George II . pretended to no kind of relish , ) and appears to have been a friend both to civil and re- nour . ligious liberty . By an anecdote , preserved on good. B 3 5.
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Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher.) ligious liberty . By an anecdote , preserved on good authority , it appears also that he was no enemy to serious practical religion ; for when the prince once asked a lady of fashion ( lady Char ...
Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher.) ligious liberty . By an anecdote , preserved on good authority , it appears also that he was no enemy to serious practical religion ; for when the prince once asked a lady of fashion ( lady Char ...
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Page 45 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me, I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Page 101 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will ; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Page 59 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.
Page 49 - III. c. 23, enacted at the earnest request of the king himself from the throne, the judges are continued in their offices during their good behaviour, notwithstanding any demise of the crown, which was formerly held...
Page 140 - ... to recoil within them : men promoted to the highest seats of justice— some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a court of justice in their own. They protected by your arms ! They have nobly taken up arms in your defence...
Page 208 - The Wisdom and Goodness of God in having made both rich and poor; with an Appendix containing Reflections on the present State of England and France.
Page 107 - The Toleration Act renders that which was illegal before, now legal. The Dissenters' way of worship is permitted and allowed by this act. It is not only exempted from punishment, but rendered innocent and lawful. It is established; it is put under the protection, and is not merely under the connivance of the law.
Page 275 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 139 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 165 - Table, and ordered by the King to deliver his official Opinion on the point ; stated in the most precise terms, that any such Assemblage might be dispersed by military force, without waiting for Forms, or reading the Act in Question. " Is that your Declaration of the Law, as Attorney-general ?" said the King. Wedderburn answering decidedly in the affirmative, " Then so let it be done,