A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Volume 1

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Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855 - Great Britain
 

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Page 74 - And, behold, I am •with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page 275 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Page 81 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page xxiii - The Laws of England are so interwoven with the power and practice of Monarchy, that to settle a Government without something of Monarchy...
Page 358 - They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man...
Page 323 - 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 247 - Yes, upon some occasions, in my own family ; and think it as proper for me, being the master of it, to admonish and speak to my people when there is cause, as to be beholden to another to do it for me, which sometimes brings the chaplain into more credit than his lord.
Page 248 - Yes, Madam, very often and very well. Nevertheless they maintain chaplains and ministers in their houses and regiments ; and such as are godly and worthy ministers have as much respect and as good provision in England as in any place of Christendom.
Page 275 - Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 300 - He spake Latin, plain and fluent and significant ; and though he could, yet would not speak French, saying he knew no reason why that nation should be so much honoured more than others as to have their language used by strangers ; but he thought the Latin more honourable and more copious, and fitter to be used, because the Romans had been masters of so great a part of the world, and yet at present that language was not peculiar to any people.

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