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" An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England... "
The Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine - Page 306
1868
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Verse

Andrew Marvell - 1872 - 562 pages
...Croft and Marvell on their respective books : the originals at Lambeth [vol. i. pp. xxxi.-v.]. IV. An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England ; more particularly from the long Prorogation of Parliament of Nov. 1675, ending the 15th of Feb. 1676,...
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A First Sketch of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...against three assailants of a book of his on "Divine Prescience," and in the following year he published An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England. In August, 1678, he died. 36. John Dryden (§ 10 — 12, 15) also was being forced by the new taste...
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The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 11

George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1875 - 900 pages
...Rehearsal," one of the most remarkable passages is the author's defence of Milton. His last work, " An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England" (1678), was so distasteful to the court, that a reward was offered for the discovery of the printer,...
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A catalogue of a ... collection of upwards of twenty-six thousand ancient ...

Alfred Russell Smith - 1874 - 496 pages
...Saints, and a Copy of Warrant for Executing Brother John Leger, Prior, ike. 2s v. Y. 12.470 POPERY.— An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England, by Andrew Marvel — the great point of Succession discussed — the Private League betwixt the late...
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Andrew Marvel and his friends

Maria Hall - 1875 - 488 pages
...CHURCHILL. ABOUT the close of the year 1677, a great stir was made concerning a large book, entitled, " An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England," which appeared without the name of printer, publisher, or author. But the style and subject of the volume...
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The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 11

George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1875 - 912 pages
...Rehearsal," one of the most remarkable passages is the author's defence of Milton. His last work, " An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England" (1678), was so distasteful to the court, that a reward was offered for the discovery of the printer,...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...'was and is a man of as great learning and sharpness of wit as any man.' One of Marvell's treatises, l human things are subject to decay ; And, when Fate summons, monarchs was considered so formidable, that a reward was offered for the discovery of the author and printer....
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1879 - 708 pages
...assailants of a book of his on •' Divine Prescience-; " and in the following year he published ;i An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England." In August, 1C78, he died. & Sir William Davenant, son of an Oxford innkeeper, was born in 1606, was...
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Our Religious Humorists: With Anecdotes and Illustrations

George Shaw (author of Rambles about Filey.) - 1880 - 264 pages
...John Howe from a severe assault on his conciliatory tract on the " Divine Prescience ; " and another, "An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England." For the last a reward was offered by the Government for the discovery of the author, though they knew...
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The Biographical Treasury; a Dictionary of Universal Biography

Samuel Maunder - 1882 - 750 pages
...restoration he was elected into parliament for his native place. Among his prose tracts was une, entitled "An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England," on the appearance of which a reward was offered for a discovery of the writer and printer. But though...
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