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... reign'd : Supreme in Wickedness , more wicked grew , Firft fore'd a Homage , then decreed it due . Trace the fift Tyrants to their fancy'd Thrones , Plac'd in ( r ) that Heaven , that all their Crimes dif- ( owns If in the Royal Lifts ...
... reign'd : Supreme in Wickedness , more wicked grew , Firft fore'd a Homage , then decreed it due . Trace the fift Tyrants to their fancy'd Thrones , Plac'd in ( r ) that Heaven , that all their Crimes dif- ( owns If in the Royal Lifts ...
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... reign'd in fome of the firft Ages . Authors differ who he was . Bifhop Cumberland proves him to be Cham , the Son of Noah , whom his Father curs'd . The Ancients reprefent him eating his own Children , which I understand to mean ...
... reign'd in fome of the firft Ages . Authors differ who he was . Bifhop Cumberland proves him to be Cham , the Son of Noah , whom his Father curs'd . The Ancients reprefent him eating his own Children , which I understand to mean ...
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... reign'd in Mufcovia , and dy- ed An . 1584. Puffend . Infit . p . 352 . ( 6 ) Phocas the Emperor of the East , a barbarous and inhuman Tyrant , abandon'd to all kind of Abominations and Debauche- ries ; He murder'd the Emperor Mauritius ...
... reign'd in Mufcovia , and dy- ed An . 1584. Puffend . Infit . p . 352 . ( 6 ) Phocas the Emperor of the East , a barbarous and inhuman Tyrant , abandon'd to all kind of Abominations and Debauche- ries ; He murder'd the Emperor Mauritius ...
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... Reign'd in that Kingdom : A Truer Thunderer than Jupiter , and much more worthy of the exalted Sphere . ( d ) The Titles the French Academifts and Poets frequently give their prefent Monarch in their Writings , If Seas of Blood and ...
... Reign'd in that Kingdom : A Truer Thunderer than Jupiter , and much more worthy of the exalted Sphere . ( d ) The Titles the French Academifts and Poets frequently give their prefent Monarch in their Writings , If Seas of Blood and ...
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... reign'd ; What marks of modern Tyrants could he flow ? And where's the ftreams of blood that ran below Had he his Infant power fet up by Force , His very Sons would have rebell'd of Course . ( a ) Saturn himself , who his own Sons ...
... reign'd ; What marks of modern Tyrants could he flow ? And where's the ftreams of blood that ran below Had he his Infant power fet up by Force , His very Sons would have rebell'd of Course . ( a ) Saturn himself , who his own Sons ...
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Page xxxi - But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught...
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Page xxxii - ... ought to be tolerated, provided they behave themselves peaceably under the government, and obedient in all other things to the civil magistracy of the country in which they live. That I should say the same of opinions that are blasphemous and heretical, that deny the fundamentals of the christian religion, derogate from the nature or attributes of God, or the honour and divinity of our Redeemer, or any the like desperate errors, I see no foundation for it in the scripture, or in the nature of...
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Page ii - ... disloyalty, in order to persuade their princes to trust them in their greatest emergencies ; but when their king had the misfortune to believe them honest, he paid too dear for the mistake ; for, as they were the first that prompted him to want their assistance, they were also the first that let him want it. I believe I am in no danger of being thought a Jacobite, but this I must affirm," continues De Foe, "had I told King James II.
Page 107 - Thy father made our yoke grievous; now, therefore, make thou the grievous service of thy father and the heavy yoke which he put upon us lighter, and we will serve thee.
Page v - JReuietp, iii. 372. reason of the thing, " that kings are not so Jure Divino, that when they break the laws, trample on property, affront religion, invade the liberties of nations, and the like, they may be opposed and resisted by force." To guard his doctrine from misconstruction, he observes, "If any are so weak as to suppose this is a satire against kingly government, and wrote to expose monarchy, I think I should sufficiently answer so foolish a piece of raillery, by saying only, they are mistaken.
Page 83 - ... never offered the king their assistance in that distress, which, as a man, whether prince or no, any man would have done...