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And now, before dropping the subject, may I put just one question to you? An idle question, since nothing can come of it; but still FRANKLYN. Ask your question. LUBIN. Why do you fix three hundred years as the exact figure? FRANKLYN. Because we must fix some figure. Less would not be enough; and more would be more than we dare as yet face. LUBIN. Pooh!
He even encouraged schemes for abolishing the order of bishops, and selling the dean and chapter lands, in order to defray the expenses of a Spanish war. * Parl. Hist. vol. vi. p. 75. Franklyn, p. 98. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 128. Parl. Hist. vol. vi. p. 103. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 6. Franklyn, p. 94, 95. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 129, 130.
CONRAD. Spread that knowledge and that conviction; and as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow, the thing will happen. FRANKLYN. We don't know where or when or to whom it will happen. It may happen first to someone in this room. HASLAM. It wont happen to me: thats jolly sure. CONRAD. It might happen to anyone. It might happen to the parlor maid. How do we know? SAVVY. The parlor maid!
This is almost the only pretension of the English commons in which they have not prevailed. Happily for the nation, they have been successful in almost all their other claims. See Parliamentary History, vol. v. p 428, 429, etc. Journ. 4th, 8th, 12th of May, 1621. Franklyn. p. 73.
It was much remarked, that Sheffield, the recorder of Salisbury, was tried in the star chamber, for having broken, contrary to the bishop of Salisbury's express injunctions, a painted window of St. Edmond's church in that city. * Rushworth, vol. ii. p. 272, 273. Rushworth, Vol. ii. p. 152. State Trials, vol. v. p 46. Franklyn, p. 410, 411, 412. * Rushworth, vol. ii. p. 186.
And many prayers being said, the solemnity of the consecration ended. It is not easy to imagine the discontents excited by this innovation, and the suspicions which it gave rise to. * Rushworth, vol. ii. p. 76, 77. Welwood, p. 275. Franklyn, p. 386. Rushworth, vol ii. p. 207. Whitlocke, p. 24.
The duke of Bavaria told him, that it was entirely superfluous to form any treaty for that purpose. * Franklyn, p. 57. Rushworth, vol. i. p 38.
I daresay the Church was a bit thick for you; but it's good enough for me. You see, Con. It will last his time. Life is too short for men to take it seriously. HASLAM. Thats a way of looking at it, certainly. FRANKLYN. I was not shoved into the Church, Mr Haslam: I felt it to be my vocation to walk with God, like Enoch.
There is the precedent of the Emperor Constantine, who saved the society of his own day by agreeing to call his Imperialism Christianity. Mind: I must not go ahead of the electorate. You must not call a voter a Socialist until FRANKLYN. Until he is a Socialist. Agreed. LUBIN. Oh, not at all. You need not wait for that.
He took out a small, black-covered index book and, after consulting it, drew out a file of papers from the second shelf. These he brought to his table, and opened. "Ah, yes!" he said, knitting his brows as he read a document beneath the green-shaded electric lamp. "You know Franklyn, don't you?" "Harold Franklyn?" "Yes. Well, he's in the Tatra, in Hungary.
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