Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste: in alphabetischer Folge von genannten Schriftstellern, Tom 78

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J. f. Gleditsch, 1864

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Strona 228 - Grace, for instance, left no distressing examples of -virtue even to their legitimate posterity, and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree in. which heraldry has not left a single good quality upon record to insult or upbraid you*. You have better proofs of your descent, my Lord, than the register of a marriage, or any troublesome inheritance of reputation.
Strona 229 - The finances of a nation sinking under its debts and expenses are committed to a young nobleman already ruined by play.
Strona 228 - The character of the reputed ancestors of some men has made it possible for their descendants to be vicious in the extreme, without being degenerate. Those of your grace, for instance, left no distressing examples of virtue, even to their legitimate posterity, and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality upon record to insult or upbraid you.
Strona 251 - Christian world what monstrous mischiefs it had produced: that when, under colour of it, an army from Scotland had invaded England in assistance of the rebellion that was then against their lawful king, he had, by his majesty's command, received a commission from him to raise forces in Scotland, that he might thereby divert them from the other odious...
Strona 252 - He was naturally jealous, and suspected tho«9 who did not concur with him in the way, not to mean so well as he. He was not without vanity, but his virtues were much superior, and he well deserved to have his memory preserved, and celebrated amongst the most illustrious persons of the age in which he lived, —EARL OF CLARENDON.
Strona 251 - The next day, they executed every part and circumstance of that barbarous sentence, with all the inhumanity imaginable ; and he bore it with all the courage and magnanimity, and the greatest piety, that a good Christian could manifest. He magnified the virtue, courage, and religion of the last king, exceedingly commended the justice, and goodness, and understanding of the present king ; and prayed, " that they might not betray him as they had done his father.
Strona 250 - ... first Covenant he had taken, and complied with it, and with them who took it, as long as the ends for which it was ordained were observed ; but when he discovered, which was now evident to all the world, that private and particular men designed to satisfy their own ambition and interest, instead of considering the public benefit, and that under the pretence of reforming some errors in religion they resolved to abridge and take away the King's just power and lawful authority...
Strona 228 - There are some hereditary strokes of character by which a family may be as clearly distinguished as by the blackest features of the human face. Charles the First lived and died a hypocrite. Charles the Second was a hypocrite of another sort, and should have died upon the same scaffold. At the distance of a century, we see their different characters happily revived, and blended in your grace. Sullen and severe without religion, profligate without gaiety, you live like Charles the Second, without being...
Strona 251 - Thus died the gallant Marquis of Montrose, after he had given as great a testimony of loyalty, and courage, as a subject can do, and performed as wonderful actions in several battles, upon as great inequality of numbers, and as great disadvantages in respect of arms and other preparations for war, as have been performed in this age.
Strona 251 - ... that the judgment he was the next day to suffer was but an easy prologue to that which he was to undergo afterwards." After many such barbarities, they offered to intercede for him to the kirk upon his repentance, and to pray with him ; but he too well understood the form of their common...

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