Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, 11. sējums

Pirmais vāks
Longman, 1868
 

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137. lappuse - Myself am like the miller of Huntingdon, that was wont to pray for peace amongst the willows ; for while the winds blew,, the wind-mills wrought, and the water-mill was less customed. So I see that controversies of religion must hinder the advancement of sciences.
282. lappuse - If your Majesty find any aptness in me, or if you find any scarcity in others, whereby you may think it fit for your service to remove me to business of state ; although I have a fair way before me for profit (and by your Majesty's grace and favour for honour...
381. lappuse - ... to recover that strength to the king's prerogative, which it hath had in times past, and which is due unto it.
177. lappuse - The King's Sovereignty and the Liberty of Parliament are as the two elements and principles of this estate ; which, though the one be more active the other more passive, yet they do not cross or destroy the one the other, but they strengthen and maintain the one the other.
399. lappuse - I thought to lose no time, in a mischief that groweth every day ; and besides it passeth not amiss sometimes in government, that the greater sort be admonished by an example made in the meaner, and the dog to be beaten before the lion. Nay I should think (my Lords) that men of birth and quality will leave the practice, when it begins to be vilified, and come so low as to barbers surgeons and butchers, and such base mechanical persons.
348. lappuse - High Court of Justice shall be constituted as follows: — The first Judges thereof shall be the Lord Chancellor, The Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron...
29. lappuse - I have hinted in these notes, that I am not entirely free from a sort of gloomy fits, with a fluttering of the heart and depression of spirits, just as if I knew not what was going to befall me. I can sometimes resist this successfully, but it is better to evade than to combat it. The hang-dog spirit may have originated in the confusion and chucking about of our old furniture, the stripping of walls of pictures, and rooms of ornaments ; the leaving of a house we have so long called our home, is altogether...
371. lappuse - Until your Majesty have tuned your instrument you will have no harmony. I, for my part, think it a thing inestimable to your Majesty's safety and service, that you once part with your Parliament with love and reverence.
401. lappuse - For fortitude distinguisheth of the grounds of quarrels, whether they be just ; and not only so, but whether they be worthy ; and setteth a better price upon men's lives, than to bestow them idly: nay, it is weakness and disesteem of a man's self, to put a man's life upon such...
278. lappuse - I'll e'en deal plainly with you, and give you such a character of him, as if I were to write his story. I do think he was no fit counsellor to make your affairs better ; but yet he was fit to have kept them from growing worse.

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