Memoirs of Thomas Hollis


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1780 edition. Excerpt: ...the whole course of this unnatural war." Neville's Discourses concerning Government. edit. 169 8. p. 158, 9, 60, rsi. " But before I leave Spain," &e. The Senate of Sueden's Journal. See Iconoclastesr " No free people ever yet existed." Bishop Kennet's hist. register, p. 454. The Extract of Mr. Sancroffs consecration sermon, Dec. 1660. Bishop Kennet's hist. register, p. 658. The extract from Mr. Robert South's sermon before the King.The end of Toland's life of Milton. The Rev. T. Bradbury, his receipt for a thirtieth of January sermon. A The labour of the nation for a day? Some years ago a bookseller of eminence in this town received a commiffion from Ruflia', for books on English history and government, with injunction not to send Sydney's Discourses concerning government, nor Milton's prose works.- ' _Why not from all the bar accomplishments. The Remark in the " Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon," That the i clergy are improper persons to engage in politics from the meanness of their families and I. A PORTRAIT in oil, painted by Cornelius Johnson, in the year 1618, when Milton was a boy of ten years of age, now in the pofisieflion of Thomas Hollis of Linc0ln's-Inn; which was bought June 3, 1760, at the sale of the effects of the late Charles Stanhope, Esq. who purchased it of the executors of the widow of Milton. 72. Another, the painter unknown, executed when Milton was a youth of about twenty-one years of age; now in the collection of Arthur Onflow, late Speaker of he Commons house of Parliament, who purchased it of the executors of the widow of Milton. z 3. A Print by William Marshal, prefixed to a small octavo, intituled, " Poems of Mr. John ' Milton, both English...