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And, from Child's State of the Nation, during feveral years, fubfequcnt to the Reftoration, we may infer, that Petty was nearer the truth in his reprefentation than Davenant.
An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding ... 1794
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A church The church was built accordinglv, but was no fooner finifhed than huilt in the.foreft. it began to fall to decay: for after the Reftoration, a difpute arifing
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A ftory has been lately propagated, that, whert Milton and John Goodwin, after the Reftoration, 'were botli in danger of profecution, the friends of'
The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen ... 1791
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'Upon his enlargement, he re - tired to his father-in-law's houfe at Appleton; where the old general, then lord Fairfax, received him with opefi arms, and here he refided with his wife till the Reftoration, lord Fairfax continuing to be highly pleafed with his company,' and with his conformity to the fober regiilations of his fa - mily.
The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen ... 1791
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That no other con fequence could refult from them, if applied to fuch a cafe as this, but an immediate diflblution of the whole frame of governmenr, and that for thisxeafon they were not confideied as obAacles to the jiro - ceedings of Parliament, either at tlie Reftoration, by the
The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons ... 1789
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After the Reftoration he wrote the poem on Pru - dence and Jufticc, and perhap« fome of his other pieces: and as he appears, whenever any ferious quef - tion comes before him, to have been a man of piety, he confecrated his poetical powers to religion, and fnade a metrical verfion of thepfalms of David.
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Immediately after the Reftoration, the people, in - toxicated with tlie pleafures of peace, and influenced 'by the example cf a loofe court, as well as from their j; rcat averfion to ihc former fanatical ftriftncfs and feverity of convcrfation, which they detcftcd as hypo - crify, indulged themfelves in fenfual liberties, and by degrees funk deep into luxury and vice.
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After the Reftoration, the oak feemed to be held in as great veneration by the Englifh, as it ever was among the ancients.
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The park was inlarged, walled about, and planted, by king Charles II. foon after the Reftoration; and the defign or plan of a royal palace was then laid out, one wing of which w r as finifhed in a magnificent manner, and makes now the firfl wing of the hofpi - tal towards London.
A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... 1778
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He continued with them near 20 years, in great reputation for his probity, wi61om, and ferioufnefs, till the year 1660 or 1661, when one Mr. Slatery an apothecary, encouraged by the alterations expefled upon the Reftoration, tretended a claim under the widow of the former incumbent.
The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, who Were Ejected Or Silenced ... 1775
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