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Page 175 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
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Page 157 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 292 - Norman conquest, that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon? Surely, my Lords, this nation is no longer what it was! Shall a people that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, Take all we have only give us peace?
Page 245 - And whereas it hath been found by experience, that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom, to be governed by a Popish prince...
Page 209 - You must get men of a spirit ; and take it not ill what I say, — I know you will not, — of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go : — or else you will be beaten still.
Page 186 - I doubt it not but ere it be long so to handle the matter with the Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at St. Mary Port among his orange trees.
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