George Villiers, Duke of BuckinghamJ. Maxwell, 1865 |
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Side 461 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Side 23 - For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in' the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Side 238 - This is my answer. I command you to send all the French away to-morrow out of the town — if you can by fair means, but stick not long in disputing — otherwise force them away, driving them away like so many wild beasts, until you have shipped them, and so the devil go with them.
Side 264 - Who rules the kingdom ? The king. Who rules the king ? The duke. Who rules the duke? The devil.
Side 78 - Bacon, and thy lord, was born, and here; Son to the grave, wise Keeper of the Seal, Fame and foundation of the English weal. What then his father was, that since is he, Now with a title more to the degree; England's high Chancellor: the destin'd heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair: Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full, Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.
Side 85 - Their apparel was rich, but too light and courtezan-like for such great ones. Instead of vizzards, their faces and arms up to the elbows were painted black ; which was disguise sufficient, for they were hard to be known ; but it became them nothing so well as their red and white ; and you cannot imagine a more ugly sight than a troop of leancheeked Moors.
Side 181 - Stenny, you are a fool, and will shortly repent this folly, and will find that in this fit of popularity you are making a rod with which you will be scourged yourself...
Side 53 - ... by setting honours to public sale, and conferring them on persons that had neither blood nor merit fit to wear, nor estates to bear up their titles, but were fain to invent projects to pill the people and pick their purses for the maintenance of vice and lewdness.
Side 231 - Your lordships have an idea of the man : what he is in himself, what in his affections ; you have seen his power, and some, I fear, have felt it. You have known his practice, and have heard the effects. It rests then to be considered, what, being such, he is in reference to the king and state ; how compatible or incompatible with either. " In reference to the king, he must be styled the canker in his treasure ; in reference to the state, the moth of all goodness.
Side 24 - of all others was most active; he had a very lovely complexion ; he was the handsomest bodied man of England ; his limbs so well compacted, and his conversation so pleasing, and of so sweet a disposition.