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... Witt which prevailed at the English court , and in the party to which he had attached himself , regarding the republic as the rival and national enemy of his country , and its Grand Pensionary , who had acquired the almost entire ...
... Witt which prevailed at the English court , and in the party to which he had attached himself , regarding the republic as the rival and national enemy of his country , and its Grand Pensionary , who had acquired the almost entire ...
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... Witt is hearty in the point of defending Flanders , which he called in his discourse le bon parti . Temple now strongly recommended to the English government the formation of such an alliance with Hol- land as should compel France and ...
... Witt is hearty in the point of defending Flanders , which he called in his discourse le bon parti . Temple now strongly recommended to the English government the formation of such an alliance with Hol- land as should compel France and ...
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... Witt ; then , accompanied by his sister , to London with a report of his proceedings . On the 1st of January , 1668 , the English government came to a resolution to the effect than an offensive league , which De Witt had objected to ...
... Witt ; then , accompanied by his sister , to London with a report of his proceedings . On the 1st of January , 1668 , the English government came to a resolution to the effect than an offensive league , which De Witt had objected to ...
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... Witt conceived that what was proposed was impos- sible ; " no such thing had ever been done since the first institution of their commonwealth . " Temple , after a formal audience of the States - General , was granted a con- ference with ...
... Witt conceived that what was proposed was impos- sible ; " no such thing had ever been done since the first institution of their commonwealth . " Temple , after a formal audience of the States - General , was granted a con- ference with ...
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... Witt that it was his majesty's purpose to send him speedily back again . He arrived in London in October , when the reception he met with from his old friend Arlington , now confederated with Buckingham , Clifford , Ashley , and ...
... Witt that it was his majesty's purpose to send him speedily back again . He arrived in London in October , when the reception he met with from his old friend Arlington , now confederated with Buckingham , Clifford , Ashley , and ...
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admirable afterwards Algernon Sidney appears appointed Aubrey Baxter Bishop botany Boyle brother Burnet called character Charles Charles II church College common council court Courtenay Cromwell daughter death Dorothy Osborne Dryden Duke Dutch Earl England English Essay father favour fortune France French Gilbert Pickering Gresham College Hague Holland honour Howard ideas Ireland Irish James John Dryden king king's knowledge labour Lady land learning letters liberty Locke London Lord Somers Louis XIV ment mind Nassau nature never Nimeguen objects observation original Oxford parliament party persons Petty philosophical plants poem poet political practice Prince of Orange principles published Ray's remarkable republican reputation residence Restoration returned Robert Boyle Royal says Sir John Sir Robert Howard Sir William Sir William Petty Spain Stadtholder Temple Temple's things thought tion Tories translation treaty Whig Witt writing written
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Сторінка 92 - Ephesians. To which is prefixed an Essay for the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles, by consulting St. Paul himself.
Сторінка 100 - For a man can employ his thoughts about nothing but either the contemplation of things themselves for the discovery of truth; or about the things in his own power, which are his own actions, for the attainment of his own ends; or the signs the mind makes use of, both in the one and the other, and the right ordering of them for its clearer information. All which three, viz., things as they are in...
Сторінка 20 - Hill, .on the single witness of that monster of a man, Lord Howard of Escrick, and some sheets of paper taken in Mr. Sidney's study, pretended to be written by him, but not fully proved...
Сторінка 21 - He seemed to be a Christian, but in a particular form of his own : he thought it was to be like a divine philosophy in the mind; but he was against all public worship, and every thing that looked like a church.
Сторінка 94 - Musick is yet but in its Nonage, a forward Child which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in ENGLAND, when the Masters of it shall find more Encouragement. Tis now learning ITALIAN, which is its best Master, and studying a little of the French Air, to give it somewhat more of Gayety and Fashion. Thus being farther from the Sun, we are of later Growth than our Neighbour Countries, and must be content to shake off our Barbarity by degrees.
Сторінка 45 - King come and stayed an hour or two laughing at Sir W. Petty, who was there about his boat; and at Gresham College in general: at which poor Petty was, I perceive, at some loss; but did argue discreetly, and bear the unreasonable follies of the King's objections and other bystanders with great discretion; and offered to take oddes against the King's best boates: but the King would not lay, but cried him down with words only.
Сторінка 48 - As for legacies for the poor I am at a stand ; as for beggars by trade and election, I give them nothing ; as for impotents by the hand of God, the public ought to maintain them ; as for those, who have been bred to no calling nor estate, they should be put upon their kindred ; as for those, who can get no work, the...
Сторінка 41 - Venus' soil, One jewel set off with so many a foil ; Blisters with pride swell'd, which through's flesh did sprout Like rose-buds, stuck i' the lilly skin about. Each little pimple had a tear in it, To wail the fault its rising did commit : Which, rebel like, with its own lord at strife, Thus made an insurrection 'gainst his life.
Сторінка 13 - The heat of the day is spent in reading or working, and about six or seven o'clock I walk out into a common that lies hard by the house, where a great many young wenches keep sheep and cows, and sit in the shade singing of ballads.
Сторінка 56 - ... all the rest of animals, for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough as an author ; and this history and that poem are such extraordinary things of their kind, that it will be but suitable to see the author of the worst poem become likewise the translator of the worst history that the age has produced.