The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... Parliament , or come within the verge of the Court . Without attempting to justify the slightest deviation in an office , where purity of principle and integrity of con- duct are more particularly expected to preside , this dreadful ...
... Parliament , or come within the verge of the Court . Without attempting to justify the slightest deviation in an office , where purity of principle and integrity of con- duct are more particularly expected to preside , this dreadful ...
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... Parliament which was held in the first year of King Charles I. He survived his sentence five years , and being released in a little time from the Tower , where he was at first imprisoned , his genius , yet unbroken , supported itself ...
... Parliament which was held in the first year of King Charles I. He survived his sentence five years , and being released in a little time from the Tower , where he was at first imprisoned , his genius , yet unbroken , supported itself ...
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... Parliament . His infancy was by no means happy . His mother dying when young , and his father being wholly absorbed in business , he was abandoned to the care of an old servant , who treated him with much unkindness and severity . Her ...
... Parliament . His infancy was by no means happy . His mother dying when young , and his father being wholly absorbed in business , he was abandoned to the care of an old servant , who treated him with much unkindness and severity . Her ...
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... parliament of King Charles I. he was appointed one of the committee of reli- gion ; and in 1637 , upon the severities inflicted on the Puritan party , of which he professed himself , by arch- bishop Laud , he resolved , with several ...
... parliament of King Charles I. he was appointed one of the committee of reli- gion ; and in 1637 , upon the severities inflicted on the Puritan party , of which he professed himself , by arch- bishop Laud , he resolved , with several ...
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... parliament to make him a tender of the crown itself , was yet incapable of expressing him- self with common precision or propriety , but at all times delivered his harangues in a manner of which a peasant of the most ordinary capacity ...
... parliament to make him a tender of the crown itself , was yet incapable of expressing him- self with common precision or propriety , but at all times delivered his harangues in a manner of which a peasant of the most ordinary capacity ...
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