A Life of Anthony Ashley Cooper: First Earl of Shaftesbury. 1621-1683, Volume 1 |
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Page 248 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom, and that we shall be ready to consent to such an act of parliament as upon mature deliberation shall be offered to us for the full granting that indulgence.
Page 210 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the commonwealth of England, as the same is now established, without a King or House of Lords...
Page xii - ... not intimately acquainted with her. This made him very popular ; always speaking kindly to the husband, brother, or father : who was to boot, very welcome to his house, whenever he came. There he found beef, pudding, and small beer, in great plenty. A house not so neatly kept as to shame him or his dirty shoes : the great hall strewed with marrow-bones, full of hawks...
Page xiii - He drank a glass or two of wine at meals ; very often syrup of giliflower in his sack, and had always a tun glass without feet stood by him, holding a pint of small beer, which he often stirred with rosemary.
Page 262 - ... enable him to exercise, with a more universal satisfaction, that power of dispensing, which he conceived to be inherent in him...
Page 13 - I was often one of the disputants, and gave the sign and order for their beginning ; but being not strong of body was always guarded from violence by two or three of the sturdiest youths, as their chief, and one who always relieved them when in prison and procured their release, and very often was forced to pay the neighbouring farmers, when they of our party that wanted money were taken in the fact, for more geese...
Page xix - To adjust the minute events of literary history, is tedious and troublesome ; it requires, indeed, no great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand.
Page 288 - I, AB, do declare, that it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the king : and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 208 - That all writs, processes, commissions, patents, grants, and other things, which now run in the name and style of the keepers of the liberty of England by authority of Parliament...
Page xii - An oyster table at the lower end, which was of constant use twice a day all the year round. For he never failed to eat oysters before dinner and supper through all seasons : the neighbouring town of Pool supplied him with them.