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Often appears with: political legitimacy and consent · faction, party, and civil strife · counsel and advisers to rulers · yule family descent · universities and learned societies · trade, markets, and merchants · theatre and performance · strategy and the aims of war · scottish heraldry confirmation · royal society patronage · revolution and the fall of states · religious persecution and toleration
Usually: argument (3) · skepticism (3) · curiosity (2) · narrative (1) · record or table (1) · crisis of belief (1) · the fall of the great (1) · censure (1) · praise (1)
“But whatever raises, in any country, the ordinary rate of profit higher than it otherwise would be, necessarily subjects that country both to an absolute, and to a relative disadvantage in every branch of trade of which she has not the monopoly.” Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth · insight
“Kings are not taken away by miracles, neither are changes in governments brought about by any other means than such as are common and human; and such as we are now using.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense · observation
“Account of Regions Visited or heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu.” Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 · observation
“Never had the Republique of Letters so learned and universal a Correspondence as has been procur’d and promoted by this Society alone;” John Evelyn, Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2 · insight
Pepys talks about staging Shakespeare’s or heroic tragedy “Catiline” at the King’s house, notes payments for theatrical robes, and hears expectations that the Parliament will purge royal officers even if Pepys may escape.
for it; and I do think it may do me good, for he do happen to be held a considerable person, of a young man, both for sobriety and ability. 9th. Comes Sir G. Carteret to talk with me, who seems to think himself safe as to his particular, but do doubt what will become of the whole kingdom, things being so broke in pieces. He tells me that the King himself did the other day very particularly tell the whole story of …
Paine extends the argument: if Quakers truly defer to God about governments, they must approve past outcomes like Cromwell and, in effect, stop meddling, while highlighting contradictions in their testimony.
fully believe what it contains: And the very publishing it proves, that either, ye do not believe what ye profess, or have not virtue enough to practise what ye believe. The principles of Quakerism have a direct tendency to make a man the quiet and inoffensive subject of any, and every government which is set over him. And if the setting up and putting down of kings and governments is God's peculiar prerogative, he …
A writer traces the Yule family’s Scottish and Danish connections, linking them to the Juel naval hero Niels Juel and asserting documented heraldic confirmation issued by Lord Lyon under Charles II.
_Account of Regions Visited or heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu._ CHAP. PAGE I.—HERE THE BOOK BEGINS; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA 41 NOTES.—1. *Little Armenia.* 2. *Meaning of* Chasteaux. 3. *Sickliness…
He contends England’s earlier naval power couldn’t be due to the Navigation Act because colonies were small at first, and later monopoly mainly changed the direction of trade rather than adding new trade volume.
second, it had been fully enacted by legal authority, yet no part of it could have had time to produce any considerable effect, and least of all that part which established the exclusive trade to the colonies. Both the colonies and their trade were inconsiderable then, in comparison of what they are how. The island of Jamaica was an unwholesome desert, little inhabited, and less cultivat…
He continues defending the Royal Society by listing endorsements from universities, scholars, foreign ambassadors, and volumes dedicated to Charles II, claiming the Society increases England’s reputation.
whose *Founders* are as unknown as the Heads of *Nile*; because they either deserv’d no *Memory* for their *Vertues*, or had none to transmit them, or their *Actions* to *Posterity*. Is not our R. *Founder* already *Panegyriz’d* by all the *Universities*, *Academists*, *Learned Persons*, divers *Princes* *Ambassadors*, and *Illustrious* Men from *abroad*? Witness besides, the many accurate *Treatises* and *Volumes* …