The Harleian miscellany; or, A collection of ... pamphlets and tracts ... in the late earl of Oxford's library, Volume 10 |
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... hundred and fifty pounds . But this had like to have cost Mary her life for Robert , being inraged at the disappointment , practised with his man , to meet her in her coming down ; and either to cut her throat , or drown her . And ...
... hundred and fifty pounds . But this had like to have cost Mary her life for Robert , being inraged at the disappointment , practised with his man , to meet her in her coming down ; and either to cut her throat , or drown her . And ...
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... hundred marks ; for the other , a hundred marks ; and she twenty marks . If my reader shall ask , why Robert was found guilty of no more than two of these cheats ? It was , because there was no other proof against him for the rest , but ...
... hundred marks ; for the other , a hundred marks ; and she twenty marks . If my reader shall ask , why Robert was found guilty of no more than two of these cheats ? It was , because there was no other proof against him for the rest , but ...
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... hundred and fifty pound with his daughter ; and he getting me drunk one night , I was married to her , and was ready to cut my own throat , the next day ; but I seeing what a priminary I had by my ludness brought myself in , I saw that ...
... hundred and fifty pound with his daughter ; and he getting me drunk one night , I was married to her , and was ready to cut my own throat , the next day ; but I seeing what a priminary I had by my ludness brought myself in , I saw that ...
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... hundred miles distant , in March last she came to this in- formant's house , and told him , that she had been married to one Green , a clergyman , and that he , going to sea , was taken by the Turks , and she was going to London to ...
... hundred miles distant , in March last she came to this in- formant's house , and told him , that she had been married to one Green , a clergyman , and that he , going to sea , was taken by the Turks , and she was going to London to ...
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... hundred eyes ; and the ends to Briareus , with his hundred hands , tis odds he will fall asleep : so that I thought it my best way , for a time , to remove myself and family , to prevent future inconveniencies . Whereupon I , with a ...
... hundred eyes ; and the ends to Briareus , with his hundred hands , tis odds he will fall asleep : so that I thought it my best way , for a time , to remove myself and family , to prevent future inconveniencies . Whereupon I , with a ...
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Popular passages
Page 245 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace ; and labour, working with our own hands...
Page 244 - Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Page 244 - What ! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own ? For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Page 142 - The Roman catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II...
Page 304 - Henry, his successor in the throne ; Thomas, duke of Clarence ; John, duke of Bedford; and Humphrey, duke of Gloucester : and two daughters, Blanche and Philippa ; the former married to the duke of Bavaria, the latter to the king of Denmark.
Page 300 - of Lancaster, EDMUND OF LANGLEY Duke of York, j HENRY, surnamed BOLINGBROKE, Duke of Hereford, son to John of Gaunt ; afterwards KING HENRY IV.
Page 143 - ... have or enjoy the benefit of this article, that shall neglect or refuse to take the oath of allegiance,* made by act of parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their present majesties, when thereunto required.
Page 248 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Page 79 - Essentials of it (as well in the chiefest materials, as in the frame and order thereof) have still continued the same unto this day, and do yet stand firm and unshaken, notwithstanding all the vain attempts and impetuous assaults made against it, by such men as are given to change, and have always discovered a greater regard to their own private fancies and interests, than to that duty they owe to the publick.
Page 242 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.