The British Prose Writers...: Lady Russell's lettersJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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Seite 34 - ... or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm ; and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers, superiorities, and authorities, and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the queen's highness, her heirs and lawful successors, and to my power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions, pre-eminences, privileges, and authorities granted or belonging to the queen's highness, her heirs and successors, or united and...
Seite 34 - And be it hereby declared, that by the undoubted and fundamental laws of this kingdom, neither the Peers of this realm, nor the Commons, nor both together in Parliament or out of Parliament, nor the People collectively or representatively, nor any other Persons whatsoever, ever had, have, hath, or ought to have, any coercive power over the persons of the Kings of this realm.
Seite 14 - ... and sincerity, would not at the point of death do so disingenuous and false a thing, as to deliver for his own, what was not properly and expressly so. And if, after the loss in such a manner of the best husband in the world, I were capable of any consolation, your Majesty only could afford it by having better thoughts of him...
Seite 20 - Being appointed to preach the sermon on the Gunpowder Plot, (1684,) at the Rolls Chapel, I took for my text, ' Save me from the lion's mouth ; thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorn.
Seite 58 - But sure, doctor, it is the nature of sorrow to lay hold on all things which give a new ferment to it ; then how could I .choose but feel it in a time of so much confusion as these last weeks have been, closing so tragically as they have done ; and sure never any poor creature, for two whole, years together, has had more awakers to quicken and revive the anguish of its soul than I have had...
Seite 69 - Pray do not turn this matter too much in your head; when one has once turned it every way, you know that more does but perplex, and one never sees the clearer for it. Be not stiff, if it be still urged to you. Conform to the Divine Will, which has set it so strongly into the other's mind, and be content to endure; it is God calls you to it.
Seite 54 - ... than in a higher, and shall not have one jot less interest or influence upon any others to any good purpose : for the people naturally love a man that will take great pains and little preferment. But on the other hand, if I could force my inclination to take this great place, I foresee that I should sink under it, and grow melancholy and good for nothing, and after a little while
Seite 62 - attempt to be a new project, not depending on, " or being linked in the least to, any former " design \ if there was then any real one, which " I am satisfied was not, no more than (my own " Lord confessed) talk, and it is possible that " talk going so far as to consider if a remedy to " supposed evils might be sought, how it could
Seite 68 - ... perfections of God ; not starting at his darkest providences, but remembering continually either his glory, justice, or power, is advanced by every 'one of them, and that mercy is over all his works, as we shall one day with ravishing delight see. In the mean time I endeavour to suppress all wild imaginations a melancholy fancy is apt to let in ; and say with the man in the Gospel, - I believe, help thou my unbelief.
Seite 127 - ... You have passed through very different scenes of life.. God has reserved the best to the last. I do make it a standing part of my poor prayers twice a day, that as now your family is the greatest in its three branches that has been in England in our age, so that it may in every one of these answer those blessings by an exemplary holiness, and that both you and they may be public blessings to the age and nation.