History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War 1603-1642: 1603-1607

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Longmans, Green, 1883
 

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Página 128 - I do not hear yet that you have spoken one word against me ; here is no treason of mine done ; if my Lord Cobham be a traitor, what is that to me ? Attorney- General. All that he did was by thy instigation, thou viper, for I thou thee, thou traitor ! I will prove thee the rankest traitor in all England.
Página 248 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation ; therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament, for God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety.
Página 282 - Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven :O come in, equivocator.
Página 156 - Stay, I pray you, for one seven years before you demand that of me, and if then you find me pursy and fat and my wind-pipes stuffed, I will perhaps hearken to you : for let that government be once up, I am sure I shall be kept in breath; then shall we all of us have work enough, both our hands full.
Página 147 - And therefore it is good we return unto the ancient bounds of unity in the Church of God; which was, one faith, one baptism ; and not, one hierarchy, one discipline ; and that we observe the league of Christians, as it is penned by our Saviour ; which is in substance of doctrine this : He that is not with us, is against us : but in things indifferent, and but of circumstance, this ; He that is not against us, is with us.
Página 129 - State was strong, it was now that we have the kingdom of Scotland united, whence we were wont to fear all our troubles — Ireland quieted, where our forces were wont to be divided — Denmark assured, whom before we were always wont to have in jealousy — the Low Countries our nearest neighbour.
Página 54 - James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but
Página 168 - House ought not to meddle with returns, being all made into the chancery, and are to be corrected or reformed by that court only into which they are returned.
Página 121 - God ! thou dost know my wrongs: know then, thou my wife and child; know then thou, my Lord and King, that I ever thought them too honest to betray, and too good to conspire against.

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